The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-07-25
Chicago Company Seeks to Open
Bottling Works To Take Care
of the Large Product
DAIRYMEN FAVORABLE T0PLAN
Meeting To be Held on Next Friday
Evening at Which Time the Matter
Will be Taken Up and the Final
Action Will be Taken

A new era is to be declared for the
dairy business in Kenosha county, as
representatives of a Chicago syn.
d1cate are now at work among the
dairymen of the county seeking to
make arrang ements for the erection
OF series of bottling plants in the
county to take care of the entire out
put of the Kenosha county diaries.
P. H. Tobin, the President of the
Milk Shippers Union in this section,
has called meeting of the farmers
residing in the eastern part of Pleas
ant Prairie for next Friday evening,
and at this meeting the plans will be
made for the erection of the first of
the bottling works. The matter has
been presented TO the farmers in this
section of the county and it is claimed
that large ajority of them are ia
vorab1e to the project. The meeting
will be held at the Tobin school and
it is expected that Representatives will
be present from all parts of the
county. For years the production of
milk has been one of The principal en-
ployments of the farmers of Kenosha
comfy and the sale of the milk and
cream has been one of the hardest
problems for the men to meet. They
have been caught by rascally dealers
in Chicago and have lost thousands
of dollars by the abscouding of milk
dealers to whom they intrusted their
products. Added to this they are
forced annually to expend a large
amount of the profits of the business
in the purchase of milk cans in which
to ship the milk. The freight charges
have also been high, and taken as a
whole the business has not been any
too profitable.
Under the proposed plan the milk
would be shipped to Chicago ready
for the trade. 1t will command a
much higher price when handled in
this manner and the company doing
the bottling would stand ali of
the expenses Of handling the
milk. The site for the first bottling
plant will be on the Tobin farm near
the main line of the Chicago & Mil
waukee Electric Railway tracks. The
milk will be bottled daily and shipped
to the different parts of Chicago over
the electric line. In this way the
dairymen will have a wider margin
for their work as hourly trains will
secure the delivery of the milk to the
Chicago wholesalers every hour of
the day.
AS soon as the plant at the Tobin
farm has been tried it is the plan of
the Chicago syndicate to extend it's
business to other parts of the county.
The farmers in Bristol and Paris as
well as the great dairynen along the
lines of the Wisconsin Central near
Genoa Junction and Hebron have
been asked to consider the plan for
the bottling plants and it is thought
that they will take up the matter with
as much enthusiasm as the farmers
in Pleasant Prairie have shown. The
cost of the erection of the bott1ing
factories will not be large and it will
be jointly borne by the farmers using
| it. The development of the bottling
industries in other states and in Wis
consin has shown that the farmers
can greatly increase their profits on
milk by patronizing these factories.
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