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...however, decided it would be unwise to lose him as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee (a job he will hold next January). Hope's successor would have been Minnesota's August Andresen, who represents a dairy state and might therefore antagonize grain farmers who suspect all dairymen of trying to lower grain prices. Ike's final choice: Ezra Taft Benson, a Utah marketing expert...
Logic a la Conant: the Amalgamated Association of Dairymen and Pharmacists is deeply concerned with the rising undemocratic practice of breast feeding. Whereas it is admitted that in most cases the standard formula product is somewhat inferior to the natural milk, still the practice is considered highly detrimental to the unity of our society, even though those guilty are still assessed their pro rata share of the general tax on lactic feeding...
Graves and Stambaugh will license canners, dairymen, etc. to use their method (Med-O-Milk is the first). At current wholesale prices (31.1? a quart), canned milk is no threat to fresh milk in the U.S. But Graves & Stambaugh think there is a big market where fresh milk is expensive or unobtainable (e.g., Alaska, on shipboard, in mining camps...
This flurry of activity is no surprise to dairymen. For years they have been trying to cut down their milk transportation bill by separating out the water, which makes up 87% of milk. Some dairymen think the new concentrate is the answer. They also think it might cut into evaporated milk's market because it, too, may prove to be more easily digested than fresh milk...
Eventually, dairymen hope to improve the concentrate to such an extent that it can be kept for longer periods. The concentrate could then be shipped long distances at one-third the present shipping cost of fresh milk. When this is done, the producers in the Midwest, who sell milk more cheaply than those in the East and South, will be able to branch out and bring cheaper milk to the rest of the country...