The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-05
Milk up; Coffee Down.

Owing to the scarcity of milk In some of
the producing districts, the New York Milk
Dealers Association has decided to add
Gig cents a gallon to the present market
price of cream milk. 1t is said that a fur
Their advance will probably be resolved
upon at the text meeting. Simultaneous
with this, though for causes wholly indie.
pendent of those which led to the increase
in the cost Of milk, coffee, or what is
known to the trade as November coffee,
sold on the Coffee Exchange at SIS cents
a pound, the lowest price on record since
the exchange was established in 1881.
The previous lowest price was $50 cents,
fifteen years ago.
New York city consumes daily 10000
quarts of milk, 10000 quarts of cream.
and 5000 quarts of condensed milk. There
are 1000 depots in the city where milk is
sold. Section 222 of the Sanitary Code,
adopted in January, 1896, provides hat
"no milk shall be received, held, kept, or
offered for sale in the city of New York
without a permit in writing from the Board
Of Health and subject to the conditions
thereof" This section of the Sanitary Code
was amended in June, 1906, to include the
prohibition against the sale within the
city limits or the bringing within city
limits of adulterated cream or adulterated
condensed milk and it is asserted that as a
result OF. these regulations and since the
adoption of the rule requiring the issue
of permits to milk and cream vendors
there has been a great improvement in the
quality of milk over preceding years.
~ cox y~f@~ t~ thn aINpft1~ of tha1A
regulations, the cases of adulteration dis
covered were 393. Last year there were
only 233. The number of arrests in 1895
for selling adulterated milk was 4Os; in
1896 there were 22O. AS the popula-
tion of the city has increased. and conse-
quently the daily demand for milk, the
dairy territory supplying the New York
market has been steadily enlarged, and
Orange, Westminster, Putnam, Duchess,
Ulster, and Sullivan counties, and the coun-
ties Of New Jersey, no longer furnish the
whole supply. such distant counties as Che
mung, Tompkins, Onondaga, Oneida, and
Herkimer being now drawn upon. To this
fact is ascribed by many the increased price
charged for milk, though the farming con.
ditions now existing In the dairy districts
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dependent for their daily supply, have prob.
ably much to do with the increase.
While the cost Of milk has gone up, the
cost of coffee, the concomitant of milk in the
morning beverage of most New Workers,
has gone down. The cause of the decline
in the price of coffee is the expectation of a
heavy Brazilian crop, estimated at 5000,
600 bags, following a crop Of 5000, DOC
bags in 1896, and an enormous visible
worlds supply, 100000 bags, the largest
ever known, and comparing with 300, DOC
a year ago. Fortunately, the apprehcnsions
Of some of the coffee men are accompanied
by the soothingly saccharine trade an
nouncement that sugar, essential to the
full enjoyment of coffee, is "dull and
monotonous." Centrifugal has been offered
at a concession, but in other respects the
sugar market is reported as steady, and
the menace to the Breakfast Table involved
in some of the early reports of an increased
milk rate may, therefore, be disregarded.