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Excerpt from Agricultural Situation, Vol. 41: May 1975 For the last several years, the num ber of farms producing milk has been declining by at least 4 percent per year. Upshot: farmers increased their sales of milk products more than 13 billion pounds of milk from 1952 to 1956 - even though farm production of milk in creased by only 11 billion pounds. Of the record-breaking billion pounds of milk produced in 1956, an equally record-breaking 111 billion pounds were sold. Farmers thus sold about 89 percent of the total quantity of milk produced in 1956. Yet only a generation ago - ih the mid 1920's - the percentage was only in the low 7o's. Sales of whole milk also are rising. In 1956, farmers sold 95 billion pounds of milk, just as it came from the cow. In 1940, sales were less than 50 billion. In 1956, sales of milk in whole form constituted 76 percent of total milk production - although it had taken uh til 1943 to reach 50 percent. All other outlets declined. Sales of milk in the form of farm-skimmed cream were only about 11 percent of production in 1956, compared with about 33 percent in the mid-1920's. 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.