TABLE 4.-Changes in milk production by States, January-February 1955 compared with January-February 1954

1 Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Louisiana, Florida, Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

Source: Dairy Production and Crop Production reports, Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA; Connecticut Dairy Marketing reports; New York State Dairy Farm Report.

TABLE 5.-Changes in milk production by States, 1938-40, compared with 1924-26

Source: Farm Production, Disposition, and Income from Milk, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Washington, D. C.

NOTE.-United States total population increased 13 percent between 1924-26 and 1938-40.

TABLE 6.-Changes in milk production by regions, 1938-40 compared with 1924–26

Source: Farm Production, Disposition, and Income from Milk, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Washington, D. C.

NOTE.-United States total population increased 13 percent between 1924-26 and 1938-40.

TABLE 7.-Changes in population by States, 1954 compared with 1938-40

Source: Estimated population of the United States by States 1910-14, Bureau of Census, Series P45 No. 9, Oct. 1, 1945; provisional estimates of the population by States, 1954, Series P25, No. 108, Bureau of Census, Jan. 3, 1955.

TABLE 8.-Changes in population by regions, 1954 compared with 1938–40

TABLE 9. Civilian consumption of dairy products, per person, milk equivalent, averages 1925-29 and 1935-39, and annual 1945, 1950, and 1954

Source: Dairy Situation, U. S. Department of Agriculture, October 1954.

TABLE 10.-Percent change in civilian United States consumption of dairy products

per person, 1935-39 to 1954

Percent change

+13

-20

-47

+38

0

+84

-12

Source: Computed from table 9.

TABLE 11.-Changes in butter and oleomargarine consumption and prices, April 1954-January 1955, compared with a year earlier

Source; Household purchases of butter, cheese, nonfat dry milk solids, and margarine, January 1955, U. S. Department of Agriculture report dated March 1955.

TABLE 12.-Consumption per capita of fluid milk and cream in certain markets of the United States, 1950

1 From a special study by Patricia Froelich, unpublished thesis, Graduate School of Cornell University, 1953.

2 Estimated.

3 Data not available.

4 Data for 1949 from Consumption of Fluid Milk and Cream in Northeastern Marketing Areas, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Source: Except as noted below, the data were taken from the Fluid Milk and Cream Report, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture, December 1951. Originally compiled by Leland Spencer, Cornell University, with U. S. Department of Agriculture corrected figures for St. Louis and Quad Cities, and addition of data for New Orleans, Connecticut, and Chicago.

TABLE 13.-Consumption of milk and cream in the New York City market, 1940–54

Source: Adapted by Leland Spencer, Cornell University, from data compiled by Patricia Froelich, market administrator's office, New York metropolitan milk marketing area.