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9.9 percent, was sold at Ottail to consumers. Sales to dealers and
plants increased to 98.3 percent of total United States production in
1960. However, only 7.2 percent of output was sold as farm-separated
cream. Whole milk sales to dealers increased to 91.1 percent of market-
ings. Retail sales to consumers declined to 1.7 percent of all milk
marketed in 1960.


TABLE 5.--Percentage Disposition of Milk Marketed, United States
 and Southern Region, 1925-1960



 : Percent of Total Milk Marketed Soldj:
Year : To Plants and Dealers as: Retailed : Total
 : Whole : as Milk
 : Milk : Cream : and Cream :

 United States

1925 42.2 47.9 9.9 100.0
1930 45.8 45.1 9.1 100.0
1935 47.4 43.3 9.3 100.0
1940 54.7 38.2 7.1 100.0
1945 70.0 24.3 5.7 100.0
1950 75.5 20.5 4.0 100.0
1955 83.9 13.6 2.5 100.0
1960 91.1 7.2 1.7 100.0

 Southern Region

1925 35.1 38.0 26.9 100.0
1930 40.1 39.0 20.9 100.0
1935 41.8 36.7 21.5 100.0
1940 49.2 33.3 17.5 100.0
1945 68.2 17.8 14.0 100.0
1950 80.0 9.0 11.0 100.0
1955 91.2 2.8 6.0 100.0
1960 96.5 0.7 2.8 100.0


 Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing
Service, Dairy Statistics, Statistical Bulletin No. 218 and Supplements
(Washington, D. C.: October 1957 and June'1960). Also, U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Economics Research Service, The Dairy Situation (Washing-
ton, D. C.: April 1961).


 In the Southern Region similar changes occurred. The greatest
portion of milk marketed in 1925 was in the form of farm-separated