Litchfield enquirer., 1873-03-06
with capital of 5000 Its objects were expressed to be as follows:

"i'h GRADUAL of $lU, UOO. It's objects were expressed to be as follows:
 Article IIL The purpose for which said corporation is formed is the follow Ing, to wit: To sell and deliver. throuol It's agent in the City of New York m;iil- produced only in the district tribntarv t., to the Shepaug Valley railroad. viz in tba towns of Goshen, Litchfield, Morris RafI,- aibs. lehem, Warren, Washington, Roybnrv Bridgewater, Southbury, Newborn ana others, and to buy, sell, own and deal in any real or personal property necessary or convenient for the prosecution Of said business, and generally to do all things incident to said business and to the proD- CT management thereof"
 In reply to questions Dr. Buel said that although every stockholder must be a producer, no person shipping milk through their agent need be stockholder. The advantage in taking stock would be that the producer would then have his share in the management of the concern.
 Mir. Jay Nettleton, of Washington, doubted whether milk could be sold at an advanced price. The pedlars get all they want at present prices. '
 MT. Searles, New York middle-nnan largely interesting in the milk that comes by the N. Y. < N. H. R. R., then made some remarks. He considered the busi- ness of distributing milk in New York city the worst managed of any in the world. He came here hoping that some good plan would be proposed but didn't believe the present one would work. He thought the great need of the business was some manufactury, at the end say of the Shepaug road, where milk could be worked into cheese or butter in case of an overplus. The difficulty was that some days there would much greater demand than others. In the warm dry days of summer there was a great demand for ice cream, punches, &c. The demand would often fall off third on wet cold days. Therefore, if milk dealers could telegraph up and stop milk not needed, there would be great saving. He thought, too, there should be some man for each road to in- spect milk. The loss of cans was gener- ally occasioned by the sending of poor milk. If farmer sent milk that soured, the dealer had to sell it to an irresponsi- ble class of men for very low price, and very often these fellows never brought back the cans.
 In reply to a question by MT. E. E. Seeley. he stated that he was ready to contract for milk for the coming year at the Following prices: April, cts. quart; May, June, July, August and September, 3 cents; October, cents; November, December, and January, Scents; Februa- ry and March, cents. ''The talk about us middlemen;" said he, ''is ridiculous. l have got an awful lot of water out of old Connecticut since have been in the business" -, E.
 MT. Benton :-'Isn't Litchfeld county water as good as Croton ?'' eselrscr i. !
 ''Yes, but we don't want to pay 63 cts. 8 can freight, on it.
 OAA. hoAAA1u WdS SdGISIl0u W1IQ the pro- posed plan and moved the appointment of committee to solicit subscriptions to the stock of the proposed association. The following gentlemen were disignated by the chair :-George E. Jones, Geo. w. Mason of Litchfe1d; M. D. F. Smith, Go shen; Wm. F. Burgess, Morris; s. J. Net tleton, Washington; Daniel Gillette. Rox- bury; c. B. Beeman, Warren.
 MT. Nettleton did not see how one O, two agents not acquainted with the busi- ness could succeed in managing it in New York. He therefore declined the ap. pointment at first, but afterwards accept. ed. l-
 Mir. Pratt had confidence in the plan. He spoke of the bad management of the Naugatuek road of the little regard it paid to the interests of tho milk producers, and of the consequent decline of the milk bu. siness on it. He then explained the way of preparing milk for the market. Soon after, the meeting adjourned and the re. turn train arrived at this station without detention at about P. M.