Excerpt from Cottage Cheese and Frozen Desserts: Cost of Production in Diversified Milk Plants in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma Minimum prices paid to producers of graded milk (milk eligible for fluid con sumption) by distributors in the South Central area milkshed are controlled by four Federal milk marketing orders: Greater Kansas City, Wichita, Neosho Valley, and Oklahoma Metropolitan. The South Central milkshed comprises the greater part of Kansas and Oklahoma, about half of Missouri, and smaller adjacent areas of Arkansas and Iowa; recently some supplies have entered the milkshed from Minnesota (fig. Three of the four Federal milk marketing orders in the South Central area use a 2-class system for pricing milk. Graded milk sold to consumers in fluid form is classified as Class I. That part of the graded milk supply made into nonfluid items butter, cottage cheese, ice cream, etc. Is classified as Class II (surplus). Wichita, With a 3-c1ass system, puts all milk used in manufactured products except cottage cheese in Class III. Milk used in cottage cheese falls in Class II. This milk is priced higher than Class III. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.