Excerpt from Drive-in Dairies in Central California: Development, Organization, and Operation Milk production in California has increased substantially in recent years and the proportion of market grade milk that exceeds Class Irequirements has also increasedo Approximately 25 percent of the market grade milk in California was surplus and was diverted to manufacturing uses at lower than Class I prices in 19620 2/ More than half of the milk available for manufacturing uses in California came from this surplus of market grade milko As apartial result of'this continued surplus situation? Some producers sought to increase the average (blend) price received for their milko Under a system of classified pricing and adrninistered'prices, this could be done only by increasing the proportion of market grade milk sold for, Class I usec> Efforts to increase average prices received for market grade milk without violating the price regulations were probably a major stimulus to the introduction and growth of driveein' dairies in Central California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.