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Show Milk Production ! Termed Too Low USDA Outlines Ways To Increase Supply Milk production In the United States Is too low to meet consumer needs. This statement is based upon the tact that production is not keeping " pace with the rapidly increasing population of the nation. As a result, re-sult, the U. S. Department of Agriculture Agri-culture has made two recommendations recom-mendations for meeting increased need for dairyfoods: (1) Dairy farmers to produce more milk from each cow. (2) Processors to convert a greater proportion of the available milk supply into forms suitable for human food. nFI.fim MILK(T"1 ..-'! A-.' i i SdMW ton i-uroBTftv ' - l -::::::::in bollU ;&h:T - Y 1 -Ctir; ; Iff J ? J iili ; i ; i i If lili f lil i- b nik. V(! '1 Farm bullcr.::::::x ' K 1 5yV Creamery P A . Cheese s W , f- A , , W baiter fr x ft W X6-1 ft Fluld Y "' The above chart gives a clear picture of consumption of the nation's present milk supply. The first suggestion is possible because average milk production per cow in the nation is only 5,328 pounds a year, while more than a million cows in dairy-herd-improvement-association herds are producing an average of 9,000 a year. Higher yields, it is believed, could be obtained in thousands of average farm herds by improved methods of breeding, feeding, and management. In the dairy products field, improved im-proved ways of converting val uable nutrients in dairy byproducts byprod-ucts skim milk, buttermilk and whey into forms more suitable for use in human foods would greatly heln tho fi.ituatini |