List of Periodicals Containing Prices and Other Statistical and Economic Information on Dairy Products

Excerpts from the Foreword: This list is designed to show the sources of prices and other statistics and economic material relating to dairy products in the periodicals currently received in the United States Department of Agriculture Library. These include trade journals, price lists, the more general dairy periodicals, and official publications of the United States and of some other governments. An exception has been made in the case of the official publications of the individual States of the United States, as they were included in Agricultural Economics Bibliography No. 38, List of State Official Serial Publications Containing Material on Agricultural Economics. The statistics found in these publications are varied. They include production, receipts, cold storage holdings, shipments, exports, imports, value, and prices (wholesale, jobbers', f.o.b., and retail) and cover milk, butter, cream, cheese, and manufactured milk and milk products. Prices of feedstuffs frequently appear. A statement of the type of information found in each publication has been given in a descriptive note, and a detailed index has teen included. While most of the periodicals contained in this list are published in the United States, eighteen foreign countries or parts of countries are represented. These are Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, British Columbia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Gt. Britain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.