The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-06-04

Almost II, $50, 900, 900 pounds of milk
are required to make that much but
ter, or more than 30,000,000 pounds
Of milk a day. Stated differently,
the milk that is required every day
to make butter for government needs
would fill train of 81, 500-pound ca
pacity tank cars, 5.3 miles long.
But that is only part of the
government needs for lend lease and
for the army. Fifty per cent of
all the American cheddar cheese is
being called for by the government
for wartime needs. It is anticipated
that this will amount to about $751;
900, 900 pounds of cheese this year.
Another 1900, 900, 900 pounds of milk
are needed to make this cheese. That
is IL 100000 pounds of milk a day.
If we were to take an average farm
from the one and a quarter million
dairy farms of the United States and
ask that they produce enough milk
to meet the governments cheese
needs for the war emergency for
one day, it would take that farm
lZO years to do so. f&
u. S. to Increase Purchases.
During the period Of heavy pro-
duction beginning May !, the gov
eminent is requiring that the amount
of butter to be set aside for lend
lease and the fighting forces be in
creased from 80 to SO per cent.
:I~ox-,:rz <Lo cLalI~r obnero va
quired for these purposes is in
creased from so per cent to 10 per
cent. However, it is assumed that
this is done to get the bulk of the
government needs while supplies are
the largest and thus leave fairly
uniform amounts for civilians
throughout the year. It is not antic-
ipated that the total governmental
needs will exceed 80 per cent of the
butter and so per cent of the ched-
dar cheese for the entire year.
Evaporated milk is being called
for by the armed forces to the ex-
tent of 100000 cases year. That
calls for 1000, 100000 more pounds.
In addition fresh fluid milk is on
the army master menus every day,
and ice cream is served from to IL
times month. Milk is also served
frequently in cocoa and various 9TH
err forms.
OF Debated milk powder there is
practically no limit to the needs Of
disagreement, both for the fighting
forces and for lend lease. Manu-
facturers are required to sell 80 per
cent of all their SPRAY process"
milk powder to the government.
Many of them dispose of all of it
in that way. Altogether about Gill;
10000 pounds of Debated milk pow
der was made last year from about
7h billion pounds of skim milk.
Probably another 1000, 100000
pounds of Debated milk powder
could be made if the price were
high enough to encourage diverting
it from livestock feed and if milk
drying machinery could be made
available.
In spite of every effort along the
production line it will not be possible
to provide civilians with all of the
dairy products they want. Ice cream
production has been reduced to IS
per cent of that made last year, in
order to make the additional milk
solids available for our fighting
forces. That means there will only
be 8.5 quarts per civilian this year
as compared with 10 quarts last
year. After the necessary butter
has been set aside for army and lend
lease needs there will only be about
IL pounds each for civilians this year
compared with II pounds in former
years. Taking out the army re-
quirements for cheddar cheese, civil
ians will probably have to reduce
their, cheese consumption from SIS
pounds last year to less than 5
pounds this year.
These curtailments represent a
distinct sacrifice on the part of con-
sumers.