New-York tribune., 1907-09-13
MILK AT NINE CENTS.
INCREASE NEXT MONTH.
Price May Go Up Still Higher an
Winter, Dealers Sag.

..-+ retail nrice Of milk sold in this city by the
s1oD,son- Decker Company will be Increased on &c
to,er to nine quart. and possibly 10 AZ
ccuts. We hope, however, to DC aoIe TO sen "
-fvo can+s throughout the winter, and the o'hel
cor, will not be added unless II Is absolu'eiy
necessary to give fair proht lot our WI ~
This statement was made yesterday oy lo'oI
Horton president of the company. proprietors -
49,. cheio1d Farms and the secs5nd largest retail
&c og mill, in New york City. Il was said at t'e
Office Of the Borden company the largest ~ u~ea.V,
that no announcement of the intentions VI
g.. -sysrdina, Drices would be made public now
AZ tho general Office of the Mutual Milk and cream
Germany. which comes Eext in the amount oA mn
cold Of retail it was said that the farmers were
receiving now all the local dealers could al1oro u
nav and that II thei: demands for the IAN am,
winter supply were increased rise III Pi4'0 "''
result -, ,,,ro
,er of sipned October contracts yesterday @
President Horton said he expected ~ per ee"'
tho farmers from whom he was no" P"i
milk would accept the increased offer Inc -.
cornanv did not care TO give out any hiioI''''
on this subject. and at .he Mutual Co"p'HS > -
eco II was stated that the agents or that coilplS
had found disposition among the :ariiieIS nc' =,
sign contracts now for the ensuing SIN IhoN''-7
liverv. preferring to sell it from month 10 Hion''
at prevailing prices. - o.
.,-bo f,rr1ers are receiving to-day Is per cent
more for their milk than in 1904" said Presloeh'
Horton For the milk that his company Is 's'l---9
Co.. egb+ cents at retail he said. the farmers were
rouy receiving 81 10 a hundred pounds elSh'S-H.e
pounds making forty quarts his company ~ ~
frd these PRODUCERS 81 50 for October an increase
cf "a cents on each forty quarts The price for NJ
ver1ber has been set at s2. an increase OF 70 'el
go +bo Same month last year This rate Is 10 pre-
vail through December. January ana feOlN"iS
until March when it drops to 81 80 Inc ProPO'
+ionate increases over the price Of one year ago
are the same
To show that his company has been maintaining
the elght-cent price at a loss for some tlnne'
dent Horton estimated that 1t cost eight ana one
eighth cents a quart 10 deliver milk 10 the con-
suner. divided as follows exclusive of oflcs help
and rnanaeeuent: Cost in country, four cents a
o,Iart: handling washing. botting and Gaping
including Icing one-half cent quart: average
railroad charge for transportation. one cent
quart: carting from weehawken three-eighths OF
a cent: driver horse. wagon. inspectors. two
cents: breakage the life Of milk bottle being
sixteen quarts and costing four cents each. one
quarter cent.
The Sheffield Farms handle ninety thousand
quarts OF bottled milk and four thousand quarts OF
cream daily. Much more than that amount could
be sold II il could be found but President Horton
expects that the increase in prices which he is cer
tain will be general among all the dealers. will cut
off the consumption among the poor people and
about e1uallze the shortage. There are some gro
GERS he thinks who may sell milk at six cents, In
bulk no matter what the bottle price may be. but
they will do for advertising purposes and az a
monetary loss Should the price go up in these
places the people Will probably buy by the nickers
worth getting less and less for their money as
the price advances.
Cream selling at IS cents a quart has been han
died. dealers say, a loss all summer, but none
Of them cared to express opinion as TO what
would happen TO the price OF It.