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'^ caught up with demand is dairy products. Production has increased very 

 considerably. The emphasis in purchases has shifted from evaporated 

 milk, v;hich concentrates milk about one-half, and cheese, which 

 concentrates milk about ^0 per cent, to dry milk products. The emphasis 

 is on concentrated products, for shipping is scarce. 



The AMA has made the following statement: 



"More dried milk powder, — manufactured by the spray process 

 is one of the biggest Jobs the dairy industry nr.s today. With guns, 

 tanks and food vying for a place on the ships, it's the food that packs 

 the most nutritive value in the smallest space that wins out. It takes 

 four shiploads of evaporated milk to equal the food value of one ship- 

 load of whole milk powder, and that is why the Agricultural i'iarketing 

 Administration is placing so much emphasis on spray process milk powder 

 — both from skim or whole milk. 



"More than I70 million pounds of dry skim milk were bought 

 during the past 1^ months ; in addition to about h million T:)Ounds of 

 whole milk powder. But most of it was made by the roller process, and 

 powder manufactured this v/ay can not be used so readily for fluid pur- 

 poses. 



"Frankly, milk powder is needed much more right now than 



evaporated milk. The current rate of evaporated milk production and 



stocks on hand are much larger than are necessary to meet requirements 



for the 19^2-^3 season. To illustrate, the current rate of evaporated 



milk production is between ^0 and 100 million cases a year. But it is 



estimated that about 65 to JO million cases would take care of needs 



here at hom.e, supply the armed forces, United Nations and still leave a 



larger reserve stock to meet unforseen demands. In another month it is 



estimated that the Agricultural Marketing Administration will have a 



reserve of about 25 million cases. That is ample under present 

 • conditions. 



