The Progress., 1892-08-06
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TIE MILK BUSINESS.
Robbery Of Producers and Consumer by
ski;AmiiA AGultcration.


Robbery Of Producers and Consumers by
Sll:hmiiA AGuitcration.
The Rural New Yorker pays its re-
snects TO the New York Milk exchange
in an article from which we make an
extract.
All through the milk producing rc-
cions members OF the exchange have es-
fablishcd milk receiving stations, where
,bey buy milk OF the producers. paving
for it generally Il half cent per quart
less than the net price in New York. Ii
other words. they meet in New York T.
per cent. of solids and 4 or more rer
cent. Of fat. See how easy it is for these
unscrupUlaus mon to oadultcratc the milk
by adding SKINNED milk to pure. Loo!.
at these figures:
focuarts milk. solids I3....................so 30
10 quarts skinned milk, solids lJ......... 100
90 Quarts, tCtdl Soll.'- '-.--.................. 40
lGIalt, solids. lslI
This shows that III the case OF mill,
showing Is FER cent. OF solids and 4 per
cent. Of fat, they could safely mi, ten
quarts Of Skinned milk with thirty
CHARTS of pure and the mixture would
stand the legal test. It Is perfectly safe
to say that the milk received at the ex.
change crcaInerics Tor eleven months in
the year Is rich enough TO allow thc.l
10 put five quarts OF sliiumed milk into
every forty quart can without subject
ing themselves to the penalties of the law.
We append few extracts from tho
fourth annual report Of the state dairy
commissioner Of this state:
Some creamery men are 10 doubt practicine
the adul;erdtiou # milk by adding a certain
percentage of skilmill to each can shipped 10
market, they having discovered that they can
do this without reducing the milk below the
lowest standard required by law.
One creamery ran had the audacity to come
to me and Iaakc the following statement: That
be was selling his milk at wholesale and retail
In Brooklyn; that he thought some of the farm
ers delivering their milk at his creamery wa
tered III that Le feared that the milk would Lo
brought below the standard by reason OF the
supposed watering and the addition by him
self. rs he a-kuowl edged, Of five quarts Cf
skmmilk to every thirty fyc Of pure milk. ana
that lac was fearful lest the dairy commissioner
or the board Of health should prosecute him.
In fine, he wanted 10 be protected against the
his own fraud on his customers.
find that the detection Of the above ofTcnsc
is NEST difficult Icing committed behind
closed doors il is not easy To detect il.
Another creamery man delivered his milk at a
railroad depot. The agent noticed that the cans
were not full and called the attention of the
party delivering the milk to the fact. lie al
swered that DC had forgotten TO add the skim
milk, and returned TO the creamery ana
hot ~ inn tn
the depot ana Giled the cans.
The farTeaching effects Of this per-
sistent adulteration are apparent when
We lock into the figures. n careful es-
innate puts the amount of milk shipped
to New York from exchange creamer-
les at about j,0G0 cans daily. If we as
sumo that these contain, on an average.
only FIVE quarts of skinned milk apiece.
it will be seen that the aggregate
amounts to $1,000 quarts or G35 cans
daily-a quantity larger than the ter
rible surplus about which so much
has been said and which has been such
q potent factor in beating down the
price in the hands of the exchange. The
evil il q monstrous one.
Inc lnllk law needs amendlnS. Inc
proportion of fat solids is too small and
should be changed. The law today
makes any farmer who sells his milk 10
butter or cheese factory, and who adds
water or subtracts any cream, guilty Of
q misdemeanor. and that is as it should
be. Now let rs have tho same medicine
for the dealer. and let us be empowered
to call the employees in creamerics as
witnesses. If it can be proved that a
creamery man has added SKINNED milk
to his other milk aad offered the mixture
for sale, let it be misdemeanor. no
matter what analysis of it shows. If it
Is good law for the farmer il is good law
fcr the exchange man.
Raising Calves.
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