APPENDIX A


 PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF MILK
 AND MILK PRODUCTS


TABLE 43.--Number of Milk Cows on Farms, Production per Cow, and Total
 Production of Milk, United States, Selected Years, 1925 to 1960


 Numb: Production :: Total Production
 Number of
Year Milk Cows per Cow Butterfat : on Farms
 on Farms : Percent
 Son Fas Milk :Milk Fat : Milk :Milk Fat

 Thousand Pounds Percent Million Pounds

1925 21,503 4,218 165 3.92 90,669 3,551
1930 22,218 4,508 177 3.92 100,158 3,929
1935 24,187 4,184 165 3.95 101,205 4,000
1940 23,671 4,622 183 3.97 109,412 4,343
1945 25,033 4,787 190 3.98 119,828 4,764
1950 21,944 5,314 210 3.96 116,602 4,618

1955 21,044 5,842 225 3.84 122,945 4,726
1956 20,501 6,090 233 3.82 124,860 4,773
1957 19,774 6,303 240 3.81 124,628 4,744
1958 18,711 6,585 249 3.78 123,220 4,658
1959 17,901 6,815 256 3.76 121,989 4,588
1960 17,549 7,004 263 3.76 122,920 4,624


 Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research
Service, Dairy Statistics Through 1960, Statistical Bulletin No. 303
(Washington, D. C.: February 1962).
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