Evening star., 1941-09-04
Dairy Cash Income
Highest in More
Than 10 Years
Wholesale Quotations
Reach Best Levels in
a Yeors or More
BY WILLIAM LOCHNER.
Associs ted Press Market Writer

Associated Press Market Writer.
CHICAGO. Sept. 4-Keen COM
petition for the Nations record milk
production is giving Americas dairy
farmer the highest cash income in
more than 10 years as well as boost
ing wholesale prices of dairy prod
ucts to the highest level the con-
sumer has seen in four years or
longer.
Manufacturers of butter, cheese,
condensed and evaporated milk, and
fluid milk bottlers are competing
on high basis for milk and but
terfat TO meet the best export de-
m9nd since the World War and a
greatly improved domestic consump-
tive demand.
At the outset of the lend-lease
program in March the Government
asked for increased diversion of
milk from butter to condenSerieS and
cheese factories to make possible
large shiDmcntS of cheese and
canned milk to England. Although
diversion is increasing, butter pro-
duction is at a record level and the
Government reports the output of
evaporated milk and American
cheese-also at record levels-is not
great enough to meet all require
ments.
Production figures for the first
seven months of the year with COM
parsons of the chief manufactured
milk products in pounds are:
1871. 1910.
mink - 1,7s1sel,OOo 1,5s2,o4s,ooo
milk - 62,O5s.oOO 3o,541.ooo
American
HuiPss Cheese 4o5,5sS0SS S 5sS SSS g ooo
Cash Income Scars.
The dairy farmers cash milk in
come for the first six months of
194l is estimated at 1888 900 900, the
highest in more than 10 years and
18 per cent more than in the same
period of 1910.
Butter producers, for example, In
mid-July paid the dairy farmer 36.6
cents a pound for his butterfat, COM
pared with 29.5 cents a year ago;
condenSeries paid him S1.75 a hun
dredweight for milk, compared with
Sl.H a year ago. cheese producers
were reported paying about the same
price as condenseries, and city milk
bottlers were paying him $3.50
hundredweight, against s2.18 a year
ago.
The consumer, however, is paying
sharply higher prices than year
ago for butter, cheese, evaporated
and condensed milk.
American cheese on the Plymouth,
Wis, Exchange, is 2514 cents a
pound, the highest in 13 years, and
compares with 1872 cents year ago;
cash butter on the Chicago Mercan-
tile Exchange is being quoted at 36
cents pound, within a. cent of the
highest peak since 1887, and COM
pares with 27h cents year ago:
the average manufacturers domestic
selling price of condensed milk by
the case In mid-July was SIS 20, COM
pared with $3.50 a year ago. and for
evaporated milk s342 a case, COM
pared with s285 a year ago, both the
highest price in six years or more.
Exports Up Sharply.
Behind the rising prices and rec
ord production are two important
factors: Rising domestic consump-
ton of butter. milk and cheese and
the lend-lease program, which is
stimulating American exports of
cheese, condensed and evaporated
milk. Exports of milk products in
pounds for the first six months of
the current year compared with a
year ago are,
Evaporated milk - 43,3s3.46 4.55o,4ss
Condensed milk 1,332, ,654 1,l04,043
Cheese (all types 13,975,s4l 4i,924
Exports of cheese this year are
larger than imports for the first
time since the World War as re-
suit of the lend-lease program as
well as the breakdown of imports
from the chief cheese producing
countries in Europe. Cheese ship
ments. first getting under way in
large quantities in June, are already
IS per cent of the average annual
shipments during the World War
period and shipments of condensed
and evaporated milk are 80 per cent
of the average annual shipments
during that period.