New-York tribune., 1901-07-14
MILK FOR THE CITY.
IT COMES FROM MANY POINTS FAR AND
NEAR-HOW THE DEMAND IN
CREASES IN HOT WEATHER


mand for milk During the recent heated term
the supply was never adequate. and milk
| chants sent kilograms and hurry orders wher-
ever there was a chance to procure an extra can
The amount of milk received in New-York daily
| is about one million quarts. In extreme warm
weather this amount is often exceeded by one
| fifth The supply from points ranging
| from twenty to $50 miles distant from the city.
| Trains from St Lawrence County and from
| points near the Canadian border and local milk
| trains do their share toward hauling the
| on the Ontario and Western road the milk
| points are nearly all more than 12J miles from
| the city, and on the Delaware, Lackawanna and
! Western the points further removed. Or
| ange County was once the main supply point
for New-York milk but. while it still produces
more milk in proportion to its acreage than any
other county. Chenango and Delaware counties
each sends more milk to the metropolis. 1t costs
2G cents a to bring milk from Orange County
and - cents from Chenango County Bottled
milk costs p per cent more to transport than
the milk in cans.
| The milk product falls off in the country
| in torrid weather. but the demand in the city
| increases. and in order to supply the demand
| there is a decrease in butter and cheese making.
Farmers hustle to get their milk to the station
| or to the forwarding merchant in time for the
milk train. Some dairymen ship their
account and cOnsgn their cans to a New-TorS
| concern while others club together and ship
! through one of their number. The amount real
lied by the producer is from two cents to thre1
cents quart.
The trains bearing the great milk supply foi
| the city arrive at the Ontario and Western the
| Erie the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
| the Harlem and the New-York Central freight
stations daily at about 10 p. m. and there the
drays and trucks go TO receive the cans and
distribute them They are taken to establish
ments from which the milk is delivered 10 deal
ers and in many instances that journey is saved
and delivery is made to dealers direct from the
station. The cans are left at the doors of the
grocery stores sometimes but milk is tempt
ing article to the playful boy as we'll as the dis
honest early morning prowler. and on that
count many concerns allow the milk driver 10
carry a store key with which he unlocks the
door and leaves the mornings milk. Milk is
sold in the crowded districts, where the great
est part of it is consumed, at from three to five
cents a quart.
About 10000 families in New-York are sup
piled with milk by the Borden concern. which
receives it's milk from seventeen stations in
various parts of the State. This milk comes 70
the city on the same trains that bring the other
milk, but in which carry only the milk
from the concerns factories and bottling estab-
| lShments. and their wagons meet the trains
and deliver the days supply to their various
depots.
The milk merchants gave orders for "all
hand" during the hot spell, but COuntermands
were sent the weather moderated
These came in many instances after shipments
had been made, and the consequence that
many thousands of cans of milk were returned
to the producers
IF not too far gone" said a produce
chant. this milk will make butter but much
of it will be clear loss TO the darymen."
The small shippers of milk. who cannot af-
ford buy ice for their stock in transit will
lie compelled to sell their milk To the larger
dealers if the Board of Health insists
forcing the regulation to the temperature
of milk. This requires all milk to be of a tenn
perature not higher than 10 degrees. If it is
higher the authorities may Confiscate il.
| a popularity of the milk business in New
York is the fact that the superior article is sold
in the best residence districts and in. that part
of the tenement house district which is consid-
| cred the poorest The people there said
milk merchant. have learned that bad milk will
kill their children, and that the good article
will nourish them. They deprive themselves of
other necessaries in order TO buy good milk Tor
the baby