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Show This Area's Milk Scores High In Government Tests Utah's Grade A milk, including includ-ing milk produced in the Roosevelt Roose-velt area, has received recognition recogni-tion again. Fof the eighteenth consecutive consecu-tive year, Grade A milk supplied sup-plied the Salt Lake City market has rated the honor roll of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The market's over-all rating for Grade A milk was 90.7 per cent, according to Wilbur C. Parkinson, Parkin-son, assistant chief sanitarian and supervisor of the milk sanitation san-itation division of the Salt Lake City Board of Health. Five Utah dairy operations shipping Grade A milk interstate inter-state 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 as-sistant dean of the school of agriculture, Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural College. Professor Morris Mor-ris has been conducting quality tests -with Utah's milk throughout through-out the state this summer. "We "are very happy about the unusually un-usually high quality shown in our tests, particularly in flavor," fla-vor," Professor Morris said. Meanwhile, Utah dairy industry indus-try continues to follow the line of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Ez-ra Taft Benson that one of the best ways to reduce surpluses is through more aggressive educational, edu-cational, merchandising and advertising ad-vertising programs. Through the Dairy Council of Utah, American Ameri-can Dairy Association of Utah, and the Utah Milk Foundation, Founda-tion, Utah dairymen are stressing stress-ing the economy, flavor, and economy of dairy products. |