Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-30
|N0WFORA MILK TRUST
Money Kings Form Another
Great Combine.
LOWER PRICES PROMISED
Farmers and Consumers viii Both Be
Benefited.
FINALE OF THE MIDDLEMAN
Twenty Million Behind the New Con-
Germ, Which will Control Milk,
Butter, Eggs and Chickens.
FINALE OF THE MIDDLEMAN

| many OF the most prominent financiers of
/ the country. another trust has been planted
on American soil. known as the American
Farm Products Company and established
TOT the purpose Of taking absolute control
OF all dairy products, chickens and eggs.
DinerinE from some other great combfna-
lions Of the kind. it Is asserted by those
who control the American Farm Products
Company that 1t will bring about an in
creased and uniform price to the pro-
| Queer, diminished price to the consumer,
giving him a superior and purer grade OF
dairy products. and greatly improving pres
ent methods OF distribution. The commits
| sion merchants profit will be eliminated and
/ the great corporation will take the respon-
| sibility Of delivering butter and milk from
| the hands OF the farmer to the hands of
| the consumer. Behind the great enterprise
are score of the wealthiest men in Amer
lea. who already have put In about $40, 000.-
! goo and are prepared to t'chip in additional
| millions as they are required Among East
! ern capitalists interested in the trust are
| Levi P. Morton. Thomas f. Ryan. Harry
! Payne Whitney, Anthony Brady. E. J. Ber-
| wind. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and several other
large banking houses and individual capital
| lists. The Headquarters of the company are
| at 81 Broadway, where corps of experts Is
| at work in a large suite of offices stocked
with mass of books and data concerning
| the farm products Of the United States.
At a meeting\of the board of directors
| held June Is these officers were elected:
| President, James R. Morse; first vice presi-
dent, Henry D. Cooke; second vice presi-
| dent, H. L. Wiley; treasurer. Grant Hugh
| Browne; secretary. Eugene Del Mar; execu-
| tive committee, Messrs. Morse, Cooke.
| Browne, Del Mar and John H. Fla gler; gen.
eral manager in Chicago. H. L. Wiley; west
| ern board OF managers Gin Chicago, Horace
| Melbourne, w. L Moody and H L. Wiley.
Big Butter Plants Bought.
| At the first annual meeting of stockhold-
ers held in New York last week. state
ment was issued showing that the company
| has a capital of $15,0O0,OOO of common
stock, 100000 OF preferred stock and
| 100000 debenture bonds The statement
| showed also that the company, up to date,
| has obtained control and operation of but
| ter making plants with output of 100,-
| coo pounds day, and is now erecting
single factory In the west which will turn
out that amount of butter every twenty
| four hours. Among the large butter refin-
| ing plants taken over by the company to
date are the W. f. Ross Company, Chi
H.; Eben 3. Dudley Company. Owosso,
Mich; Alfred G. Wessling Company, Ken
| ton, Ohio; Bigelow Butter Company. Bos-
ton, Mass; Purity Creamery Company. A
merhorn -Shotwen Company, Des Moines.
Iowa. Several large concerns supplying
milk to the New York market are said to
have been absorbed already by the COM
| pany and eventually 1t is expected that
every concern in the country now handling
dairy products will come under it's control
Thus far the attention of the company has
been conferred chiefly upon the purchase of
various patents for refining butter, and 1t
was stated yesterday that all Of these pat
ents are now held by 1t.
Absolute Control Of Milk.
Complete Transformation OF the butter
making and distributing industry of the
country Is the first branch of the enterprise
to be perfected. After that plans for sys-
tematic and absolute control of milk. eggs
| and chickens will be developed While adj
hitting that their. company will be the
most powerful and far reaching OF all So
called trusts In existence, affecting, as 1t
does the very fundamentals Of human ex-
istence, its promoters declare that the prin-
ciples upon which 1t is established will
place 1t beyond successful criticism. Every
thing is to be done In the open, they say.
There Is nothing to be concealed, and while
they expect hostility from a few men.
whose profits will be cut of. they say they
are confident of the substantial support and
cooperation OF the millions of farmers and
consumers, both OF whom are to be Dene-
flied by the new order OF things
Closest scrutiny by the government and
the public will be invited in all that is done,
and instead of becoming the target OF the
the company shall accomplish eventually
will be regarded as marking important
epoch in the betterment OF the country's
economic life.
In word the American Farm Products
Company purposes to take charge of the
2,000 600, 900 pounds of butter produced
each year in the United States, reduce 1t to
butter oil, extract the Impurities, mix 1t
again with fresh milk and transform it Into
high grade, pure butter. While butter re-
filming has been going on in the United
States for many years, to a greater extent
than is generally supposed, 1t IS contended
imperfect. and that now with the best pat
ents in their control and the abandonment
of inferior methods, 1t will be possible to
supply the consumers Of this country uni
formiy with good butter instead of the In
ferior quality produced from the farms and
creameries in the past.
The dairy crop of the United States last
year amounted to S66s. 600 900, and large
part of this was butter. OF all the butter
consumed in and exported from the United
States, two-thirds is made on farms, and
It is the contention of the new company
that most OF the farm butter is improperly
made
Happenings at Brentwood.
Special Correspondence of The Star.
BRENTWOOD Md, June 30. 1906.
Ernest Franklin Jones, the twelve-year-