16-Lancastar Fanning. Saturday, Auiu»t 9.1975
Market changes for dairy products
Widespread change* have
taken place in the tale of
milk and other dairy
products in Pennsylvania
during the past 16 years,
aays Dr. Blair J. Smith,
economist with the College of
Agriculture at The Penn
sylvania State University.
Sales of milk in stores
■urpassed home deliveries
for the first time in 1966, Dr.
Smith reported recently.
Sales through stores con
tinued to increase and by
1973 accounted for 59 per
cent of total fluid milk sales.
Home deliveries, on the
other hand, dropped to about
23 per cent in the same
period.
Many of the younger
generation have never seen a
milkman, the symbol of the
dairy industry among the
older generation. Dr. Smith
observed. Young people
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can’t relate to much of the
folklore that sometimes still
attends the terms ‘'milk
man," he added.
As for containers, glass
bottles have fallen out of
favor and have been
replaced largely by plastic
and paper. Sixteen years ago
glass containers were used
to deliver 55 per cent of fluid
milk. By 1973, less than 12
per cent of all sales were in
glass containers.
Even more noticeable has
been the decline in quart
containers, from 66 per cent
to 13 per cent in the 16 year
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span. Gallon containers
increased sharply from
practically none in 1957 to
over 25 percent by 1973. Half
gallon sales doubled from 20
to 40 per cent in the 16 years
analyzed, but have leveled
off in the last 6 to 8 years.
Sales of whole milk with
less than 4 per cent butterfat
dominate the market,
comprising 76 per cent'in
1973, Dr. Smith reported.
The largest increase in fluid
milk sales is with skim and
low fat items. From 3 per
cent of all sales in 1959, they
have risen to 16 per cent in
will receive $BOO grants to
develop and expand ac
tivities in the North
American 4-H snowmobile
program.
Funds are being awarded
by Ski-Doo Snowmobiles,
Bombardier Limited,
through the National 4-H
Service Committee.
The projects to be funded
were selected from among
proposals submitted by
Extension Services and 4-H
staffs in 36 snowbelt states.
All three projects focus on
youth involvement in
planning, carrying out and
evaluating innovative
snowmobile activities.
lowa plans to hold a three
to four-day winter camp that
will center on safe
snowmobile operation.
Participants will be teen and
adult volunteer 4-H leaders
recruited from rural and
urban areas. Following the
camp session, leaders will
conduct training programs
for young people in their
communities.
The grant to Michigan will
support an educational
program in three counties.
Older 4-H’ers with
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safaris and special events to
provide snowmobiling ex
periences for youth who do
not have access to the
machines. A trail cleanup
activity is also planned.
Snowmobiling demon
stration kits, including
clothing, equipment, safety
films, and handout
materials, will be prepared
and made available on a loan
basis for training sessions.
Pennsylvania will develop
a safety program in three
rural counties. Each county
will work toward organizing
two new 4-H snowmobile
clubs, recruiting and
training six leaders, and
building a safety exhibit. In
addition, each county will
mark at least two
snowmobile trails two to
three miles long.
The grants add a new
dimension of support this
year to the 4-H snowmobile
program, which is in its
fourth consecutive year of
sponsorship by Bombardier
Limited. Bombardier also
makes snowmobile
literature and other
educational aids available to
program members and
leaders.
How much twine is used on
big round hay bales? Sperry
New Holland engineers say
that on a 5M> foot diameter
bale, five wraps will use 88.2
feet of twine. For eight
wraps, figure on using 140
feet and tor 10 wraps you’ll
use approximately 174 feet.
1973. Increased use of low fat
milk has produced this
change, he observed.
In 1957, a little over 17 per
cent of all milk sales were
“creamline.” However,
virtually all of the whole
milk sold in 1973 was
homogenized.
Production of hard cheese
was up rather sharply
throughout the 16 year
period. These cheeses
along with cottage cheese,
ice milk, and skim milk and
low-fat fluid milk are the
brightest spots in the dairy
products marketing picture,
Dr. Smith claimed.
Butter production
generally increased except
in 1973 when milk supplies
were relatively low. The
manufacture of condensed
and evaporated milk and
non-fat dry milk powder was
generally upward in the
Commonwealth during the
first half of the 1957 to 1973
period, but has since been
downward.
In analyzing the situation,
the Penn State economist
used a series of reports
entitled “Characteristics of
Fluid Milk Sales in Penn
sylvania,” published every
other year since 1957 by the
Pennsylvania Milk
Marketing Board,
Harrisburg, and the
Department of Agricultural
Economics at Penn State. He
also used data from the
“Crop and Livestock Annual
Summary,” published by the
Pennsylvania Crop
Reporting Service in
cooperation with the U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Smith summarized his
findings in the June issue of
“Farm Economics,”
published by the Cooperative
Extension Service at Penn
State.
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