The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-06-04

solids are Minnesota, Michigan,
Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Idaho
and Vermont, in the order named.
The increase in the manufacture
of dry milk solids has forced Sc
we're changes in both farm man.
agement practice and in the opera
ton of butter factories. Farmers
have had to adjust their operations
to new methods of feeding. Cream
cries have been obliged to put in
new equipment, to train new per-
sonnet and to re-vamp their operat-
ing and merchandising plans. This
is in addition to another difficult
problem which the butter making
industry must face every year and
that is, the varying seasonal produc-
ton. During the year 1910 to 1941
butter manufacture varied by
months from a low of lis million
700 thousand pounds in November
to high of 205 million 800 thousand
pounds in June.
North Central States.
Most of these changes have been
brought about in the North Central
states where butter production is
the heaviest-Minnesota, Iowa and
Wisconsin rank first, second and
third in the order named as the "big
three" in the butter industry in the
United States. After that come
Michigan, Nebraska, Missouri, Illi-
nois, Ohio, Kansas, Indiana, Cali
fornia, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
South Dakota and Washington.
These Is states produce more than
IS per cent of all the butter made in
the United States.
Cheese is another important dairy
product, the manufacture of which
has been materially affected by cur
rent conditions. Largely as the re-
suit of the war and the demand for
American cheese abroad, production
of this product has been stepped up
enormously. The government re-
quest in March, 1941, for $50 million
pounds of cheese amounted to an
urging, on its part, for almost so per
cent increase in production. The in
dustry has met that request and
more. Nearly 300 million pounds Of
cheese had been provided for ''lend-
lease" purchases from March Is,
1941, to April /, 1912. Cheese pro-
duction is now running about $50
per cent as much as a year ago.
Cheese is a product containing
practically all the ingredients of
fluid milk, and as such, it is one of
the first on the protective list of
foods. Its value and its Importance
are gaining recognition rapidly. In
the production of cheese, Wisconsin
alone produces more than half of all
the cheese in the United States. Fol-
lowing Wisconsin are New York, Illi-
nois, Indiana, Oregon, Ohio, Mis-
souri,, Texas, Michigan and Min
nesota in the order of their impor-
lance.
Evaporated Milk Industry.
War conditions have had an equal
ly important bearing on the evap-
Grated milk industry. To fill the de-
mand for concentrated milk prod
uct for the United Nations, the gov
eminent asked for a step-up in pro.
duction sufficient to supply Is mil
lion additional cases of evaporated
milk. This called for an increase OF
more than so per cent in manufac.
ture. 1t called for changes in farm
management plans, for adjustments
in evaporating plant operations, fol-
the training of personnel and fol
shifts of merchandising methods
fully equal to those the cheese in.
dustry met. Here again the goa,
was equalled and more. Approxi
mately 80 million cases of evaporat
ed milk has been furnished fol
"lease-lend" operations. In this in
dustry, too, Wisconsin leads with al
most 80 per cent of all the evaporat
ed milk production in the United
States. Ohio, California, New York
Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Indiana
Washington and Pennsylvania follow
in the order named.
During June hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of publicit,
in newspapers and trade publica
tons, in food and drug stores, ra
dio programs, publicity stunts, ad
vertising material at point-of-sale
soda fountains, as well as education
. al programs, combine under the lead
ership of the National Dairy council
, with the efforts of nutritional author
: tiles to make of this the most q
gantic effort to bring home to al
people the realization of the need @
/ better health and the place of mil
5 and its products in achieving tina
goal.
Some idea of the amount of thi
vital food which we consume may b
derived from the fact that if jus
| the fluid milk consumed in the Uni
: ed States alone for year were t
< be placed in filled ten-gallon can.
a there would be four rows of can
]. completely around the world an
D enough left over to make a full
g loaded milk train of $4,000 pound c;
n pacity tank cars more than 400 mile
long. Dairy farmers Melted 81 SGT ,0C
s in 1940-20 per cent of all farm il
n come. Farmers themselves col
/ sumed $4O0,000,0 900 worth of dair
products.