t—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 25,1970 Keep America Beautiful * ' ' ,1 j"- .gw. V \ , - - / > i- i ' V - \ ,'\ -7 „ V * * i " \ ■" ♦* 'A , , w i i -V'-’K ’ ‘** j . . £ „ Jf J : . ' \#-V _ y*, % . m. ' ; i WkJ S a '-. S : ' / .., , ♦** -*ft. \ ■ \ a*, - v. -a-—'— N :'t \ f -v A s c.' - .. w _ •>■» Dumping grounds aren’t beautiful. Milk Board Releases Market Trend Report Significant milk marketing trends in the past 10 years in clude. diop off in home deliver ies, Increase in store sales; sharp decline in use of glass contain era, increase in paper and plastic containers; increase in gallon and half-gallon containers, sharp drop in quarts; increase in low ist-milk sales. , These are among the findings in the Pennsylvania Milk Mar keting Board’s seventh edition of "Characteristics of Fluid Milk Sales in Pennsylvania” prepared by the Agricultural Experiment Station at Pennsyl vania State University in co operation with the Milk Market ing Board. Sales of fluid milk items, ex cluding cream, by reporting licensees totaled nearly 119 mil lion quarts during October 1969 When the survey was conducted. This represents over 95 per cent of the fluid milk sales by 343 dealers, 220 subdealers and 94 producer distributors. Fluid milk dealers distributed 95.0 pei cent, subdealers 4.0 per Id producer distributors cent of the fluid milk •ing October, delivered to homes was cent of the total during 1969, down from 51.1 per cent in October 1959 Sales from stores totaled 47.3 per cent an increase from 34.1 per cent 10 years ago. Lock of Interest Kills Local Environment Lob The “'Environmental Educa tional Laboratory for School Administrators” scheduled for April 25 at the Mount Joy Vocational-Technical School has been cancelled due to a lack of interest.''!.' In making the announcement, Robert K. Maurer, arban direc tor of the Lancaster County ioil and Water \Conservation,, .Qia trict, said, * r l< am disappointed that schools were not more in terested.” It was hoped that there would be 60 participants but only six signed up for the program, which was to be sponsored joint ly by the conservation district and the Lancaster County Public Schools. Restaurant sales were 7.7 per cent about constant during the 10 year period. School milk was 8.2 per cent of the total up from 5.2 per cent in 1959, and sales from Vending Machines was 1.8 per cent of the total, up .7 per cent from 1959. Milk sales in glass containers were 18.8 per cent of the total down from 49.1 per cent in 1959, Sales in paper containers totaled 60.6 per cent up from 47.6 per cent in 1959. However, since 1967 sales in plastic containers were -about 13.5 per cent of the total. October 1969 sales in gallon containers were 13.7 per cent, up from 0.3 per cent in 1959, and in half-gallon containers 39.9 percent, up from 23.6 per cent in 1959. Sales in quart con tainers in 1969 was 20.0 per cent while in 1959 sales of milk in quart containers was 60.2 per cent. Sales in pint and one-third quart containers showed little change while one-half pint con tainer sales were 10.0 per cent in 1969 against 6.6 per cent in 1959. Sales in home dispensers were 1.5 per cent. Sales ot standard milk, plain, homo., or Vit. “D", 4.0 per cent Butterfat and under, was 77.7 per cent of the total, practically constant during the 10 year the 10 year period. However, sales of low fat milk were 11.1 per cent of the total in October up from 2.5 per cent in 1959. But termilk sales were constant at about 1.0 per cent during the period; BUY LASSO" V'' front' FERTILIZER COMPANY, Inc. East Petersburg, Pa. 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