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Excerpt from Bulk Milk Handling in 1955 Bulk milk handling continued to expand throughout the United States, according to a mail survey con ducted by the Farmer Cooperative Service. In March 1955, an estimated producers were delivering bulk milk compared to in May 1953. The survey covered the entire country except California and part of Florida. Information came from 250 firms receiving milk from 307 plants. More than one-fifth of the firms were farmer cooperatives. A good many other firms received bulk milk from cooperative producers on routes organized by bargaining associations which do not receive milk. Bulk methods were still being adopted primarily by the larger producers. Average daily deliveries of bulk producers were approximately 80 percent greater than the average of producers delivering milk in cans to the same plants. Nearly one-third of the plants received only bulk milk in March 1955. The remaining two-thirds were receiving milk both in cans and in bulk. Practically all of the milk delivered by bulk trucks was qualified for distribution as fluid milk in the markets served by the receiving firms. Bulk milk was received mainly by fluid milk distributing plants or by receiving stations Operated by such plants. 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.