New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-11-16
BORDEN TO RAISE PRICE
ILL THEIR PRODUCTS UP.
Ndk WI BE Increased to Nine
Cents Monday.

Beginning On Monday, the Borden Condensed
MIX Company will increase the price of all their
dairy products reaching A figure higher than
any other winter scale" Most of the other big
companies III New York instituted their higher
rates on October /. so that after Monday the
consumer will find milk at the high water
mark of prices, which in all probability will
continue during the cold months. Fluid milk"
as the ordinary milk is called by the trade. will
he cents everywhere, with the exception of
those places that charge high as Is 20
cents a quart for milk prepared under special
inspection conditions. All other forms of milk.
such condensed and cream, will be equally
nigh.
The reasons for the change are given as the
high cost Of fodder, the drouth in September
and the expense incurred by the farmers and
dairymen in living up TO the sanitary regulations
enforced by state and city inspectors. The
farmers have therefore raised the price to the
middlemen Il TO q of a cent a quart, and the
latter have in turn raised the rates TO the con-
sumer
Despite the complaint of the farmers that tho
inspection is already too expensive the New
York milk committee. of which George ".
Wickershsm is chairman, is still working TO OBJ
tain more inspectors. Wilbur G Phillips as
.sistant secretary of this committee. in state
rnent yesterday, said the cutting down Of Com
missioner Darlington's request for an appropria-
lion OF $685. 10 Sos, $50 meant the employ
nent of only ten inspectors-eight in the
city and two in the country. The Mayors milk
commission recommended, said Mr.. Phillips an
increase OF one hundred inspectors in the coun-
try and twenty-five in the city with five new
chemists and five psychologists.
THE need Of country inspection Mr.. Phillips
continued. SIS seen by the fact that there arc at
present between thirty thousand and thirty
FIVE
City, and with the present force Of inspectors
each farm can be visited only about once
wear. The need OF further city inspection is
also keenly felt. The New York Milk Commit
tee does not intend to let this matter drop. II
feels that in cutting down the milk approprie-
ton the city has practised an unwise economy"
Mr.. Phillips produced letter approving of
these efforts from c. B. Lane assistant chief
Of the dairy division of the Department Of
Agriculture in Washington. After writing that
he believes the Board Of Health lis doing just
right in trying to inspect the thirty thousand
farms In six states that supply New York City,
Mr.. Lane continued in part:
Their aim is to control, far possible,
the conditions surrounding the production Of all
milk supplied to the city of New York. whether
in the state of New York elsewhere. I
no danger whatever of any complications in this
inspection work The states outside of New
IN from another state and help in the work of
improving the diaries. OF course, some of these
other states you mention doing some work
in improving the conditions OF the dairy farms
Massachusetts particulary-but there is work
for ALL
Mr. Phillips said he could not predict whether
an enforcement of inspection by the large staff
Of inspectors the commission desired would re-
suit in higher prices, and even If such were the
cI,oY h Hruf
sheraton President Rogers OF the Borden
company however, said that even under pre-
vailing conditions the farmers Were complain
ting. His firm Will put into effect on Monday
the following raises: Unsweetened condensed
milk, increased from cents to cents a half
pint: fluid milk, from cents TO cents quart
butterrnilk, from cents to Z cents quart, and
cream, from 10 cents to Il cents a half pint
we really should have made this raise
eral weeks ago." said Mr.. Rogers but de-
cided to delay until now. In September the
farmers said that the dry season had Iessened
their supply Of milk and that feed for the cattle
was much higher than last year They raised
their prices to US by half cent triie more
a quart, and under the circumstances the con-
sumers will shoulder part of the burden. II is
not likely that there will &c any need of fur
Their increase. As TO the cost 10 the farmers of
more inspection. I know only that they
port to us"
L. B. Halsey, of the Slawson- Decker company,
which handles the Sheffield Farms milk said
hey had raised their prices on October to the
same figure that will go into effect on the Bor-
den product, with the exception that their
sweetened condensed milk l cent less than
the Borden price and their buttermilk
cents quart.
The supply is less this year" said Mr.. Hal
sey. and owing to the drouth in September
we're short of what needed by seven hundred
dozen bottles Of milk. Dry weather always at
fects the output Of the number of quarts given
by each COW, and the farmers have increased
their prices to US They also say that they
put 10 much greater expense I'm living up 10 the
regulations laid down by the inspectors. II
seems likely that this is true but IL the result Is
purer milk the milk is certainly worth more I
believe that the present prices will remain I'M
changed during the winter until the regular
spring reduction goes into effect"