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Market Milk Operations, 1906 Versus 1956

Foremost Dairies, Inc., San Francisco, California

ABSTRACT

The 50 years since the founding of the American Dairy Science Association has witnessed the growth of the market milk industry from a simple, nearly cottage-type of operation to an industrial factory-type. The market milk industry is not unique in this connection—the automobile, the motion picture, the airplane industry, and many other enterprises have undergone much the same development during the half-century 1906–1956.

Many factors were responsible for the remarkable development of industry in the United States during this period—the growth of cities, research in all branches of science, greater productivity of labor due to scientific discoveries, the development of machines, materials and techniques. Two world wars contributed to the acceleration of research and its application to industrial development. These factors all were important in the changes which occurred in market milk operations during the period.

Market Milk Operations in 1906

Certain discoveries and inventions prior to 1906 made possible the rapid development that started about the time of the founding of the American Dairy Science Association: the Babcock test (1890), centrifugal cream separation (1878), mechanical refrigeration (1834), glass milk bottles (1886), work of Pasteur (1864), tuberculin testing of dairy herds started (1890).