New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-20

Taking the figures for 1889 and they will show
a reduction Of . yer cent within two years. Add
To this the prospect of still further scaling down
and the plight of these honest yeomen seems
pitiful indeed To produce the milk supply Of
New-York City requires in round numbers nearly
1000. 600 cans Of 40 quarts each. 100000 COWS,
wOrih $4,000. 600 and the farms necessary 10
keep them are worth S40,O00,000 more. The
great decline in the value Of the product of plan,
that requires $50 900 900 for COWS and land alone
is something TO regard in the light of public ca
iamity. As is wellknown, the milk producers
attribute their Woes 10 the nddle-men or dealers
who stand between them and the consumer The
head and front of these mddcmen is the Milk
Exchange a chartered corporation Of dealers, os-
tensibly a collection agency only, whose members
meet once a month and fix the price they viii
pay for milk Though this MIX Exchange gets
its milk entirely from the west side Of the Hudson
mainly over the Erie yet its arbitrary price affects
al territory supplying milk TO the city. The
producers along the Harlem make contracts with
the city dealers twice year, on April ! and
October /, to supply their milk at the market
or factory price. Since the organization OF the
Milk Exchange, its price has come 10 be regarded
as the standard market price by which all
contracts are held. To wrest tins tremendous
privilege from the hands Of the Exchange, the
soulless representative Of the dealers, and vest
it in the hands Of the farmers. is now the com
mon object Of thousands of milk producers who
ship to the city market
oRGANIzATION ALONG THE HARLEM.
Into this struggle the producers along the Iiar-
lem have entered with determination born OF
despair They are all hard at work organizing
into sections OF groups Of the Milk Producers
Union, into which is coming every milk producer
that ships 10 the city. Charles K. Minor, Of
Oxford y. y is the president OF this Union
Walter Il. Pierce, Of Chenan2o FORKS y. y, IS
the chief organizer. and G. Winston, OF Goshen,
n. Y, secretary. Earnest, brainy men are lead
ing. in the work Of organization east OF
the Hudson River II. Krownel Of BrincKcr-
hOfville, is the county agent Of Duchess County.
and be reports encouraging enthusiasm all over
his district. From Boston Corners at the eX-
treme northern station Of the Harlem, within
Duchess County down 10 BTcwstcrs, in Putnam
County, just south OF the Duchess line. flourish
ing sections Of the Central Union have been
formed including a membership Of several hun
drcds Of milk producers. Below BIewsters there
are sections at Mount KiscO and Plcasantville.
and a vigorous section was formed al KatOnah
last week The picked men OF the vicnage have
been chosen officers of these little groups of
farmers At MillcrtOn, Nelson Boucher, one Of the
best men in the county, Is PRESIDENT OF one OF the
strongest sections along the line Of the road. At
Dover Plains, Isaac w. White who is secretary
and treasurer of the Toledo, ST. Louis and Kansas
City Railroad. with an Office at No. IA Wall-st.,
but whose home is at Dover Plains, is leading the
farmers and giving them the benefit OF all his
financial and executive experience from no DINER
motive than a pure desire 10 see them get their
just proportion Of great business Inc section
at Patterson in Putnam County. is presided over
by Assemblvman Henry Mabie Here, at Pawlng,
surrounded as it is by what are undoubtedly the
finest dairy farms in the State, stocked wth me
most expensive herds il is needless TO say 'hao 'he
influence of the local section Will be fet moS'
powerfully for The good Of the cause wheh '"o
time comes for striking a blow. ,
The milk producers around here are kh1"n
70 the milk producers ali over the STATE ana ~
will rot be amiss give list OF the penIpr ,,'
Of the Pawling section which was Organl|eu vi
December rs II will be noticed that the name
Of John g. butcher the well-known adlusleI Oh
claims FOR the New-YOrk Central Railroad many
times millionaire and the owner Of rna ns,
splendid farms near here although the laIg e.,
milk shipper at this point, sending over MY