-12-


marketed rose from
Region, farm sales
cent. Two factors
marketing of milk
ing and the growth


70 to 92.5 percent (Table 4). In the Southern
increased from 25.7 percent of output to 82.4 per-
which have given rise to the increase in farm
in the South are the decline in subsistence farm-
of large urban markets.


TABLE 4.--Milk Marketed and Used on Farms, United States and Southern
 Region, 1925-1960

 United States Southern Region
 : : Milk : Total : : Milk : Total
Year : Milk : Used on : Pro- : Milk : Used on : Pro-
 : Sold : Farms duction : Sold Farms : duction

 Amount of Milk
1925 63,517 22,182 90,699 2,589 7,499 10,088
1930 75,318 24,840 100,158 4,345 7,758 12,103
1935 75,188 26,017 101,205 4,475 8,497 12,972
1940 86,226 23,186 109,412 5,839 7,699 13,538
1945 98,373 21,455 119,828 7,525 7,461 14,986
1950 98,348 18,254 116,602 8,258 6,137 14,395
1955 108,320 14,625 122,945 9,842 4,514 14,356
1960 113,721 9,199 122,920 11,104 2,376 13,480

 --Percent of Total Production
1925 70.0 30.0 100.0 25.7 74.3 100.0
1930 75.2 24.8 100.0 35.9 64.1 100.0
1935 74.3 25.7 100.0 34.5 65.5 100.0
1940 78.8 21.2 100.0 43.1 56.9 100.0

1945 82.1 17.9 100.0 50.2 34.2 100.0
1950 84.3 15.7 100.0 57.4 42.6 100.0
1955 88.1 11.9 100.0 68.6 31.4 100.0
1960 92.5 7.5 100.0 82.4 17.6 100.0


 Source:
Service, Dairy
Washington, D.


U. S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research
Statistics Through 1960, Statistical Bulletin No. 303,
C.; February 1962.


 Methods used to market milk and the form in which it is marketed
by farmers have changed significantly. In 1925, United States dairy
farmers sold 90.1 percent of the volume marketed to plants and dealers
(Table 5). Of this amount, 42.2 percent was whole milk and
47.9 percent farm-separated cream. The balance of farm marketing,