The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-16
OF MILK
MAY BE RAISED
Eight Cents Per Quart May
Be Charged.
MILK OF BETTER QUALITY
Dairymen Say Percent of
Butter Fat viii Be Increased,

There is a prospect that the price az
milk IS going 10 raise three cents per
quart Several OF the principal dairy
men OF the city have signed en- agree
Inent To charge eight cents per quart
for milk, beginning the first OF January,
1903 or the price TO purchasers of a sal
Ion or more VIII be Thirty cents per sal-
Ion. For some time The daiTymen have
been working on this proposition.
one OF the largest dairymen OF the city
speaking ABOUT the matter yesterday
stated that the reason for She raise in
price is that il a short tiIae they would
be required to have better stock. would
have 70 pay more fer Feed and a number
OF other items that VIII make the cost of
production so high that they coeld not
sell milk a. the regular rates. This de-
mand was brought about by the milk on
dinancs ordered prepared by the cry
council
The dairymen say that they VIII hev
10 furnish milk Of richer quality when
this ordnance is passed and becomes
law. At the present time the dairymen
use cows that vrl give the most milk
and make no especial attempt al selling
milk Of a certain percentage of butter
fat When the milk ordinance Is passed
the percentage Of butter tat in milk
VIII have 10 be raised before il can be
sold in the city. This does not mean
that the dairymen Go rot furnish pure
milk to the people Of Wiohita Their
milk is pure enough. but not always
rich. This dairymen now use cows from
which they get the largest aow of milk
and do s~fo ~---f,Fa--s ff-,-
per cent Of butter fat in that milk The
milk sold in this city at the present time
IS regarded by creamery men as NOT
very rich in butter fat; in fact it is said
that very little VIII test over . per cent.
Not that the quantity of milk is IN
creased by artificial means. but that the
cows at present owned by the diaries do
not give milk Of much strength, but lots
OF It.
In the new milk ordinance that viii
come up before the council IN short
time the percentage Of butter fat in an
milk sold in Wichita viii be tablishod
at about 3 per cent or more Some milk
viii test four per cent under ordinary
conditions. especially that OF Jersey cows
others when fed entirely on alfalfa hay
and bran.
When the percentage of butter fat IS
raised the dairymen say that they VIII
have to procure cows that produce less
milk but Of better quality or use more
end better feed. Most of the dairymen at
present feed prairie hay ana bran. To
increase the quality Of milk to the higher /
standard required they must feed al /
falfa and bran or get better COWS and /
more OF them.
For this reason the expense attached
60 the production OF milk is greatly in
creased and they feel that the three cents
Per quart added is necessary 10 give
tnem i fair profit for their work ana
capital
In other cities it is claimed the price
of milk Is ten cents per quart. especially
IN towns where the standard of quality
Ia set by law and that Wichita is the
only town in the country of its size
where milk is sold a nickel quart
The dsirymen claim that milk is sold bv
them as pure and clean as any milk
but many DO not deny the fact that the
milk their cows product is not as rich as
1t might be.