Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
AREDEALERS AHEAD?
Reports Are Given to Prove the Pro-
posed Milk Trust a Failure.
CLAIMS OF THE CREAMERY co.
Someone Dumps Four Wagon Loads Of
Milk Into the River.
THE SHIPPERS ARE DISSATISFIED

The milky way of the dealers in the two
cities is clearing. They jubilantly predict
the downfall OF the agreement between the
farmers and the CHARTERS Creamery Com
pany, in endeavoring to mortgage the pro-
duct of every cow in this part of Christen-
dom. They say they are supplying the
wants of all their customers, and are trying
to drum up more trade. According to their
statements, it is not so with the creamery
company.
Farmers who have been shipping to the
company are returning to the dealers. Sew
eral are reported to have come to the deal
ers and requested them to take their milk.
1t is claimed the creamery company is over
stocked with milk and are now churning it
into butter. A churn has been put up by
the company in building on Water street,
as their churns in Washington county are
all in use, and they cannot let the milk
spoil.
According to the statement of dealers,
this cannot be very profitable business. He
mad 30 gallons of milk on hand not long
ago, and he churned it into butter. Three
pounds and ten ounces of butter was all he
got from the 80 gallons. The butter cost
him about 81 40 pound.
THEY WANT IT USED AT ONCE.
The farmers in the neighborhood OF
Noblestown held meeting few days ago,
and sent two delegates to the city to see
what the creamery company was doing
with their milk. The dealers claim that
the farmers returned disguised, as they
found it all in stock.
On Friday evening several gallons of
milk were dumped into the sewer at the B.
& o. Railroad station. Inspector McCutch-
con happened around about train time, and
caught number of farmers who had been
adulterating milk.
At the Fort Wayne depot last evening
several dealers were getting, as they claimed,
all the milk they wanted, and stated that
shippers were asking that they again take
milk from them.
Only about dozen empty cans from the
creamery company were at the depot ready
to be returned to the farmers down the road.
This vas all, it is claimed, that had been
brought to the depot during the day.
-Four Excelsior Express wagon loads of
milk, consisting of 40 cans each, were yes
terday afternoon emDtied into the Alleghe-
ny river, at the foot of Fourteenth street,
and various surmises were set a1oat there
by. In order to see what the racket
amounted to inquiry was made. The first
place visited was the office of the Milk In
spector. Mr.. McCutcheon had gone home;
but gentleman in the Board of Health
Office said he knew the Inspector had not
done an extraordinary days work in the
condemning line.
Several dealers in the Diamond were Wis
s&n1 o,,I H. H. Il
any confscation moi of any unusual waste
of milk; but it was suggested that the Char
tiers Creamery Company might have been
putting milk into cold storage to keep dur
ing the war, and that it might have been
tainted by oils or other substances, and thus
have been dumped.
AFTER THEY SKIM IT.
Mr.. Reed, of the CHARTERS Creamery
Company, smiled when asked if his COM
pany were the spiller, and said: "We spill
considerable milk at times, but it is after
the cream is taken off it, and we, having no
pigs around here, have no use for it. You
might call it buttermilk." Mr.. Reed
further stated that the company had sold
three times as much milk on Saturday as on
Friday, and he didn't believe that ''Mr.
Reed must CO."
1t will thus he seen that it wasn't definite
ly ascertained "who frowed de ham fat onde
kitchen stars" but question arises, why
so much food should be allowed to go to
waste. Tons of quail, grouse, ducks, chick
ems, geese, turkies, squirrels, etc., are
dumped in single day at times; and of
sour potatoes, cabbage and other vegetables
thousands of tons are annually thrown into
the rivers, just as though there were
no hungry people who would
be glad to get them ere
they had been spoiled; as though there were
not thousands of hungry little boys and
girls with pinched faces, whose future
growth will be stunted and they driven into
crime by want and wretchedness, who might
grow up to be useful and happy people if
properly nourished on what is wasted. No
matter how spiritualizing and refining gem
orally fasting may be to that fast declining
class known as saints, there seems to be no
doubt that little boys and girls are more
moral If well fed than if half starved, Mr..
Bundle and all other parish beadles to the
contrary Notwithstanding.