Pa. Milk Use
Increases
Pennbyhanlaiis, bucking tlie
national trend of decreased
milk consumption, drink more
milk today than ever before
according to a study just com
pleted by the Pennsylvania
.Milk Control Commission
State residents now drink a
glass and a half of milk per
day compared to a little over
one glass of milk in 1946 .
or 12 ounces today, compared
to 10 and 4/10 ounces in
1946. Milk consumption in
creased 15% per capita during
the period surveyed by the
state agency.
In direct opposition to re
cent news that milk consump
tion nationally is decreasing,
the Pennsylvania trend up-
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LEOLA QUARRYVILLE
ward ought to come as good
news for state dairymen sell
ing milk in the state Penn
sylvania dairy fanners last
yehr produced milk valued at
ovei 323 million dollars, as
dairying (|»ntinucd to be agri
culture’s top money earner in
the Keystone state.
The Milk Control Commis
sion credited work by the
many agencies promoting the
sale ot milk with a major
share of the responsibility for
the increase in Pennsylvania’s
milk consumption
Commission Chairman, Si
mon K Uhl said,
encies stress well balanced
diets, including milk and other
dairy products This has been
extremely successful in major
urban areas such as Philadel-
phia, Pittsburgh and Scran-
ton-Wilkes-Barre,
Uhl also pointed out that
Pennsylvania consumer milk
pi ices have continually been
lower than most sin rounding
slates for the past 15 years
He said that in Pennsylvania
during .June, an average ot
2ii 2c was chaiged pei quart
ot home delivered milk The
national aveiage during Juno
was 2(1
Quoting from the Juno is
sue of the U S Department ot
Agriculture's Fluid Milk aud
cream Report, Milk Commis
sion Chairman Uhl said milk
prices ranged from 2S<* to
in most surrounding
states. Ohio, only nearby state
“These ag-
with lower consumer prices
about oue cent lower than
Pennsv Ivanm, had very dairy
farmer milk prices averaging
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: PIONEER
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 14, 1962
about $1 20 per bundled lbs of
milk less than in Pennsylvania
Data to back up me leased
milk consumption claims in
the Commonwealth, show a
population of 10,I'M),(MU) in
194 G, drank an aveiage ot 10
and 1/10 ounces pei day based
on dairy consumption ol 2 -
432,100 quails ot milk In
1961, the state’s population
had increased to 11,310,000
who drank 3,110.000 quarts ot
milk and other lluid milk
items per day lor a 12 ounce
per person daily consumption
tecord.
The 11 01% Increase in
population over the period,
and 28 25% increase in sales,
resulted in a 15% increase in
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pel capita milk consumption
ac cm cling to slate nulK agencv
odu la Is
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