Excerpt from Milk: Farm Production, Disposition, and Income, 1954-55 Milk production on farms reached a new high of 123. 5 billion pounds in 1955, with further increased production per cow from a slightly smaller num ber of milk cows. Farm-churned butter production declined to 169 million pounds but still represented one-ninth of all butter. Milk used on farms where produced declined 3 percent to the smallest amount in 32 years of record. Farmers marketed 108. 5 billion pounds of milk as milk or cream, or 88 percent of that produced in 1955. Sales of whole milk to plants and dealers, now five-sixths of the total marketed, in creased 3 percent and reached a new high. However, cream sold to plants or dealers and retail milk sales by producers declined further, both to the lowest level in records dating back to 1924. Prices to farmers for dairy products showed little change, with 1955 unit returns for milk in all forms sold averaging $3. 88 per hundredweight, a trifle above 1954, but lower than in the 3 preceding years. Cash receipts from the marketings of milk and cream by farmers in 1955 totaled $4, 212 million, 2 percent more than in 1954. Whole milk sold to plants and dealers returned $3, 627 million; cream sold to plants and dealers, $321 million; and farmers' retail sales of milk and cream directly to consumers. 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.