Utah’s Grade A Milk, including milk produced in the Cedar City area, has received recognition again.

For the 18th consecutive year, tirade A milk supplied the Salt Lake City market, has rated the honor roll of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The market's over-all rating for Grade A milk was 90.7 per cent, according to Wilbur C. Parkinson, assistant chief sanitarian and supervisor of the milk sanitation division of the Salt Lake City Board of Health. Five Utah dairy operations shipping Grade A milk interstate rated an average of 91.3 per cent. 

Better Than Last Year 

"Border to border, our Utah milk is even better than it was in 1953,” said A. J. Morris, assistant dean of the school of agriculture, Utah State Agricultural College. Professor Morris has been conducting quality tests with Utah's milk throughout the state this summer. "We are very happy about the unusually high quality shown in our tests, particularly in flavor,” Professor Morris said. 

Meanwhile, Utah dairy industry continues to follow the line of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson that one of the best ways to reduce surpluses is through more aggressive educational, merchandising and advertising programs. Through the Dairy Council of Utah, American Dairy Association of Utah, and the Utah Milk Foundation, Utah dairymen are stressing the economy, flavor and economy of dairy products. 

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