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Show Utah's Grade A Milk Receives Recognition Again Utah's Grade A, Milk, including milk produced in the Pleasant Grove area, has received recognition recogni-tion again. For the eighteenth consecutive year, Grade A milk supplied the Salt Lake City market, has rated the honor roll of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The market's overall over-all rating for Grade A Milk was 90.7 per cent, according to Wilbur C. Parkinson, assistant chief sanitarian san-itarian and supervisor of the milk sanitation division of the Salt Lake City Board of Health. Five Utah dairy operations shipping ship-ping Grade A milk interstate rated an average of 94.3 per cent. "Border to border, our Utah milk is even better than it was in 1953" said A. J. Morris, assistant dean of the school of agriculture, Utah State Agricultural College. Professor Profes-sor Morris has been conducting quality tests with Utah's milk throughout the state this summer. "We are very happy about the unusually un-usually high quality shown in our tests, particularly in flavor," Professor Pro-fessor Morris said. Meanwhile, Utah dairy industry continues to follow the line of Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson that one ofthe best ways to reduce surpluses is through more aggressive educational, merchandising mer-chandising and advertising programs. pro-grams. Through the Dairy Council of Utah, American Dairy Association Associa-tion of Utah, and the Utah Milk Foundation, Utah dairymen are stressing the economy, flavor and economy of dairy products. |