Me ferssates fe Utah Dairies Oyech Nearly $28 Milliotme ah if fi V3 Dairying is a big Utah busi- 1ess. For | example. according ‘OR YOUR qfice Supplies and to US. ‘Denavibwnit of Agricul- other more ture figures for 1959, cash re- products. ceipts from all milk and cream marketed by Utah farmers in 1959 was set at nearly 28 million dollars, the largest amount ever received by Utah farmers. GEORGE Q. SPENCER, chairman of the Utah Department of Agriculture, noted that w Call a ST the fact there preserved IN THE FACT are improving that dairymen dairy methods is is reflected in the latest USDA While the number of dairy the state, some 25 per cent of the dairy cattle in Utah has remained products produced are ex- almost the same for the past 10 years — varying from just ported. under to just over 100,000 milk Aside from the milk products used in Utah, the excess cows—the milk produced per persons in but in teat cows the: ‘figures have ranged from a high (it That means that Utah is 1959) of 16,454 pounds of milk) g using almost 575 million and 605 pounds of butterfat pounds of milk products a down to a low of 4,779 pounds year, or more than 650 pounds of milk and 214 pounds of butper person if the latest esti- terfat in the low herd. | mated census figures are used, only one cow for about every figures. eight Furniture despite ms 1959, butter production, | at 7,164,000 pounds, was the highest since 1944. Utah plants produced 6,469,000 pounds of| American cheese and 5,018,000 | pounds of Swiss cheese for aj total of 11,487,000 pounds of whole milk cheese. Creamed cottage cheese pro- duction at .7,175,000 pounds , was the highest on record. is sold largely in Colorado and cow has increased from 6,550 ICE CREAM production in|* Nevada. That means that pounds per year in 1950 to 7,- 1959 hit a new record high of}. those two states use a large 010 in 1959. 3,864,000 gallons. | part of 191 million pounds of Commissioner Spencer noted | FAT CONTENT i in the same milk products. that both soft ice cream and| period has increased from 246 MR. SPENCER Noten that pounds per cow per year to cottage cheese production and! consumption are rising at an! ) some Utah. products are sent 276. Those are average figures, “amazing rate.” all over the world, notably the ‘| cheeses, powdered. milk and oth dees |