Bulk handling milk on New Mexico dairy farms

Purpose and method; Bulk tank areas of New Mexico; Number of tanks; Make of tank; Tank capacity; Size of tank and capacity used; Tank capacity and number of cows; Relation of number of cows to available tank capacity; Seasonality of milk production, 27 Middle Rio Grande Valley Farms-1956; Tank cost; Financing the changeover from cans to tank; Other costs of changeover; Operating costs; Hauling costs; Labor; Bulk tank benefits; Milk savings and milk losses; Power cost savings; Operating troubles; Effect of the change from cans to bulk tank; Conclusions; Summary;Bulletin containing the results of a study to determine how dairy farmers in New Mexico were adjusting to changes in milk handling and transportation in the 1950s