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Show Utah Milk Income Totals $6,021,000 Utah's position in the dairy industry in-dustry is vividly deputed in a new handbook issued by the Milk Industry Foundation. According to the book, Milk Facts, 100,0'JO cows valued at $5,700,000 produced pro-duced $6,021,000 in cash farm milk income for Utah farmers in 1939. Production of farm milk ;n the state for the year totaled 250,000,000 quarts; creamery butter, but-ter, 10,436,000 pounds; cheddar cheese, 3,732,000 p i mds; ice cream, 929,000 gallons. The United States is one of the ranking milk using nations in the world with per capita consumption consump-tion of fluid milk totaling 153 quarts a year, pictographs show. Milk and its products comprise over 25 per cent of the 1500 pounds of the principal foods consumed each year by the average aver-age American, the book says, with 45 million quarts of milk delivered daily to homes and stores. Pictorial charts and figures show the importance of the milk industry to the country's economic eco-nomic picture and illustrate how milk costs less in the U. S. in minutes of labor. Diagramatic charts illustrate how the annual milk supply of some 51 billion quarts is utilized. Fluid or fresh milk for cities and villages providng the farmer's farm-er's highest cash return, accounts for 29.9 per cent of the country's yearly production. Creamery |