New-York tribune., 1906-10-26
TO OPPOSE MILK TRUST.
NEH7 COMBINE FORMED.
Promises Consumer Purer Products
and Farmer Better Prices.

A new company has been formed to compete
with the milk trust that controls dairy products
in this city. The new concern is the New 1ofh
Dairy Company. which has g. capltai OF
S25oo0.oOo and is incorporated under the laws
OF the District of Columbia Walter n. Hodges
No. 220 Broadway. is the promoter He prom
ises 10 give the farmer more for his milk and
the consumer here purer milk at present. IL not
lower prices.
Mr. Hodges had the following to say yesterday
about the new conpany's plans:
1 cannot understand how our plans became
public Ii is true that q big company has oeen
formed. 1 can state definitely that we now nave
options on six Of the largest milk plants In
New York and Brooklyn. We hope TO be selling
milk in New York before January. Wall Street
IS not bacl Of his company. All I care to say
CT the moment is that we have strong hnanclsl
backing, coming from capitalists here out-oI-
town bankers and large interests upstate
can say that some of the biggest dairy Farmers
now members of the Five States MIX FRO
ducers' Association. and supplying New ,i, a0Ih
with milk directly interested in the new COM
pany. In the directorate are six men OF the
city dsiries entering the combnatio SIX repIe-
senting the financial backing and three men rep
1t is our idea 10 start IN a small conservative
wav and grow and for that reason we shall
;ssIye oniv 81 600 600 in preferred stock for the
present. We have every reason to nope Tor sue
cess where others have failed, because We not
only control the milk supply through the rive
States Mix Producers Association, winch mas
q present membership Of over ten thousand. Out
because the large milk houses mere lnal WIIi
enter the combine are old established houses,
selling good milk, and with sutnclent milk
routes and wagons TO take care OF the frst snip
nents. 1t will not he like beginning an en-
tirely new business and fighting for each Gus
toner.
In taking over these big plants We shall not
have TO pay down all cash, because the pro-
prietors are taking stock, wishing TO take part
3n the venture While We expect 10 give the
farmer for his milk at least one-half cent
quart more than he is getting. we do not
want To be considered fighting the milk
trust, but simply a competitor While help
ing the farmer ma terially We shall also assist
the small indep pendent dealers. Instead of put
ting them ont Of business, want them to join
us in the comparative movement. for we wish
TO furnish pure, rich milk to ell, no matter
whether the consumer is on the East Side, West
Side or in Fifth avenue II is too early yet 10
state whether we propose 10 open small mix
stores all over town. but promise that the milk
will be sanitary
James /. Bennett counsel for the Five States
Milk Producers Association. said yesterday that
the milk situation from The standpoint of the
farmer was simply ntoera BILE. The farmer, he
said. received from 2l2 To % cents a quart for
milk which sold here for from s to IA cents
quart He said further that he believed the
company just formed would save to the milk
consumers Of New York from S6!oo0oO0 to 81
100000 q year. well increase the amount
paid the farmers
The Five States Milk Producers Association.
Il IS said. has signed contract with the New
York Dairy Company. agreeing TO supply milk
for q number of years at A higher price than
that paid by the trust at the present time
II is said that this combination will be
fatal blow to the few jndependent dealers who
have been left by the Milk Trust. Many inde-
pendent concerns have already gone down in
the with the trust.
In connection with the attempt 10 sell pure
milk in the city private report made by Pro-
fessor Conn, of the department Of biology Of
Wesleyan University, on the condition Of milk
sold here is interesting The report said:
The amount of solid filth in quart OF milk
sold in New York is 205 milligrams. about
four hundred pounds in the milk supplied each