TABLE 45.--Estimated Annual Per Capita


Consumption of Fresh Fluid Milk Products in the United States,
by Regions, Spring 1955


 Fresh Fluid Milk Productsb

 Average Fluid Whole Milk Buttermilk Skim Milk
 Region Household
 : Size Per : Per Capita : Per : Per Capita : Per : Per Capita
 : Household : : Household : : Household :
 : W eek : Week : Year : Week : Week :Year : Week : Week : Year

 Pounds

South 3.52 17.39 4.94 256.9 3.20 0.91 47.3 0.24 0.07 3.6
Northeast 3.20 22.40 7.00 364.0 0.30 0.09 4.7 0.65 0.20 10.4
North Central 3.31 35.11 10.61 551.7 0.39 0.12 6.2 1.49 0.45 23.4
West 3.15 21.44 6.81 354.1 0.56 0.18 9.4 1.17 0.37 19.2
United States 3.33 21.52 6.46 335.9 1.25 0.38 19.8 0.63 0.19 9.9



 Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service and Agricultural
Marketing Service, Food Consumption of Households in the United States, Report No. 1; in the
Northeast, Report No. 2; in the North Central, Report No. 3; in the South, Report No. 4; in the
West, Report No. 5 (Washington, D. C.- December 1956).

 aTwenty-one meals at home per week = one person.


bMilk products from all sources.