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Show Dairy Industry Sets Salt Lake Convention Utah's dairy industry will tako the spotlight Friday and Saturday, Satur-day, November 16 and 17. when the 16th annual convention of the American Dairy Association of Utah convenes in Salt Lake City's Newhouse Hotel. Dairymen's wives will enjoy special activities, including suggestions sug-gestions for "Holiday Hospitality" Hospital-ity" during convention days. In charge will be Genevieve Allen, director The Dairy Council of Utah. Bryan Blalock, of Marshall, Texas, director of the International Interna-tional Ice Cream Manufacturers Association and the Milk Industry Indus-try Foundation, will be one of the featured speakers. Mr. Blalock, Bla-lock, who operates his own 100-cow 100-cow farm, has addressed dairy groups in 33 states during the past three years. Merrill N. Warnick, of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, Utah, president of Utah's A.D.A., will give the association's as-sociation's annual report. Assisting Assist-ing in the conduct of meetings will be Welby W. Young, vice president. Utah Ho'lstein-Fresian Association, Utah Jersey Breeders Breed-ers Association, and Utah Guernsey Guern-sey Breeders Association will hold their annual meetings in connection with the convention. Professor A. J. Morris, Utah's A.D.A. managing director, indicated indi-cated that the convention will stress the need for greater consumption con-sumption of butter cheese and milk in Utah. "The Department of Agriculture shows that the average per capita consumption of milk in the United States is 180 quarts a year," he pointed out. "On the other hand, the Utah Dairy Council shows that the average per capita consumption consump-tion is only 124 quarts a year and that is in a state where the retail price of milk is more than One cent below the national average. av-erage. Required per capita consumption con-sumption of milk, according to the National Dairy Council, is 273 a year for adults and 365 quarts for children." Officers and directors of Utah's A.D.A., who are planning the convention include: Mr. War-nick, War-nick, who also represents the Utah Holstein Breeders Association; Associa-tion; Vice President Welby W. Young, Salt Lake Federated Milk Producers; Secretary-Treasurer George B. Caine, Dairy Industry In-dustry Department, U. S. A. C; Managing Director A. J. Morris. The directors are George L. Nelson, Utah Dairy Products Association; As-sociation; Frank Shelley, Utah State Farm Bureau; Louis . Curtis, Cur-tis, Dairy Cooperatives of Utah; D. O. Lamb, Market Milk Distributors; Dis-tributors; Ben F. Richards, Utah Ice Cream Association; Verl Poll, Utah Jersey Breeders As- i sociation; Galen Meuwissen, Evaporated Milk; Chester Eng-strom, Eng-strom, dairy farmer - at - large; Albert P. Dimond, Utah Guernsey Guern-sey Breeders Association. |