The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-07-21

week 1 devoted considerable space to detailing
the history of the United Milk Producers Asso-
citation, though more particularly referring to
the obstacles which confronted the company at
the outset, how the latter were overcome, and
how bright the prospects are for continuation
of the success which has already crowned the
efforts of the officers and managers. However,
there are some matters which were only lightly
referred to in that letter which / think should
be more emphaticaly explained.
ask The very eU pertinent question WHY So much
discussion about the subject of milk z" The
answer, which is easily given. must naturally
interest the public at large in the first place,
and in the second, it is of paramount interest to
the great army of milk producers in this State.
1t is to reach the latter that now address my
self, and in doing so l wish to impress upon
them the fact that the moment is at hand when
they should become members of this associa-
ton, so that they may enjoy its immediate and
lasting benefits. and no time should be lost or
wasted by the producer in filing his application
for membership
Already many of the farmers in the surround
ing country have become members of the asso-
citation. but there are other producers whom we
desire to reach, who have held aloof, owing to
the misstatements and false impressions con-
veyed to them by the vendor of milk in the
city. The latter purchases his supplies from
distant creameries, who have to buy in small
quantities, through agents, then cart them to
central station, mix the fluid from can to can,
and add certain chemicals that act as a preser-
vative at needed periods of the year; as, for in
stance, in this existing hot spell. That kind of
milk is impure, and the vendors who sell it
know that it is impure.
In the next place, even since this Association
opened its doors for business, and likewise to
merit public appreciation, many milk dealers
have openly and unhesitatingly predicted its
failure. At the outset they were unit in al
lowing that the Company might struggle along
for month, and few were charitable enough
to extend the time limit to two or three months,
oil ol.a frNf hat
the organization was formed solely for specula
tive purposes, and that in short time the doors
would be closed and that the farmers who had
Joined in the movement would be the sufferers.
Indeed, the manager of one of the leading
diaries in this city made open declaration in a
letter that just as soon as milk became plentiful
in May the product from the farmer would be
permitted to sour on the platforms of the rail-
road depots of this city In other words he
meant that the Association might order milk
but would not have business enough to warrant
hauling it promptly from the stations, and in
conclusion, he wrote: UNLESS l am mentally
deranged the Company will be utterly unable to
Now, what were the actual results of May and
June? Why. the records for those two months
form one of the brightest chapters in the history
of this Company. From near and distant points
in the State the milk was promptly shipped to
this city and delivered at our North Avenue
Plant without hitch of any kind. Not drop
was permitted to remain on railway platforms,
and not a drop was soured in the handling of
months of the year in the milk trade. The yield
from the cows is always greater, and yet, great
as was the supply, this Company could have
easily handled more, and would have been glad
of the opportunity.
Lest it be overlooked or put aside, there is
another and equally pressing question to arouse
is an undeniable fact that, while vendors of
milk and the producers have some interests in
common. they end when it comes to the ques-
ton of dollars and cents. The essential thing
for the vendor, in order to make success of
his business is to buy his milk from the man
who can sell it to him the cheapest In order
that there may be fluctuations in the prices