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Excerpt from An Economic Survey of the Los Angeles Milk Market This study was undertaken during the summer of 1930 at the request of several organizations representing the dairy industry of California. A bulletin on Economic Aspects of the Dairy Industry3 published by the California Agricultural Experiment Station in 1927 had attracted considerable attention and had suggested to some leaders of this industry the need for more specific studies in this field. In 1929 a committee was appointed by the State of California Milk Distributors' Association to consider the problem of surplus milk in general, and in December, 1929, a formal request was made to the California Agricultural Experiment Station to undertake a special study of this question. In February, 1930, similar requests were made by a general committee of producers and distributors, which was created to deal with certain problems in the Los Angeles area, by the Southern California Milk Dealers' Association and by the Butterfat Club of San Francisco. These requests were the result of unstable market conditions due to a large surplus of market milk in Los Angeles particularly. Through the courtesy of Cornell University, the services of the author were made available for this study, beginning September 1, 1930. Meanwhile, some preliminary work was done by Professors H. R. Tolley and E. C. Voorhies and Mr. M. H. Blank. The time which the author could devote to the work was limited to a period of five months. Consequently it was necessary to confine the survey to certain aspects of the situation that promised to yield the most useful information in the time available. Data on the costs of production and distribution of milk were not collected.4 Particular attention was given to the surplus problem and to the relations between producers and distributors. 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.