The Newtown bee., 1909-10-08
The Newtown Bee Newtown, Friday, 0ctoper 8, 1909,
THE MILK SITUATION.
Now is the Farmers Opportunity.

gives out the information that the Association fol improving the Con- ditloG Of the Poor, in its efforts t6 procure pure milk for babies and children under its care, has been operating several milk stations from which to supply these people. The success of the undertaking becoming i known, has made demand for bet. ter mia all through the city. Evl- dently those in charge C. the milk
 stations have found It difficult to get the quality of the milk they desired and their next move Is to start q Model dairy" net far from the city, and demonstrate that clean, pure milk can be supplied to consumers at the present market rate. A com pany is being organized by the New i York Milk Committee of this Asso- citation, and among the shareholders are Seth Low, Lotion Horton, of the Slawson- Decker-Shetlleld Farms Company, and Dr Samuel Lambert, Dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons; while Stephen Fran cisco, president of the largest pro- ducing firm of certified milk, has en- dorsed the plan and certified his in- tention of becoming a stockholder
 Several dairy situations are under consideration, but the choice has not yet been announced. The plan of the model dairy" is to demonstrate that clean, pure, wholesome milk can be made and handled at least possible cost and sold to consumers at present market rates. In figuring on the cost of this kind of milk, it is evident that they have discovered it cannot be produced successfully at present prices paid to farmers, even with the new apparatus they expect to use. They frankly state that sanitary precautions necessarily increase the cost of production of milk. They propose to use a 40-quart can in- vented by man named Proost and bearing his name. This can is filled at the dairy and sealed. The local dealer draws out the milk by com pressed air, which passes in on one side of the can and bubbles up through the milk-thus thoroughly mixing cream with milk and forcing it down another tube to the stop valve. The milk is there to be drawn
 If into cardboard bottles and sold to consumers. Time and labor of bottling and handling at dairy is saved, also trouble of collecting and cleaning bottles done away and loss af breakage avoided. The "model dairy will hanule all kinds of milk, raw, pasteurized and certified, and tuberculin-tested COWS will be kept.
 MT Wilbur rnillips, secretary of the New York Milk Committee, says. Of course, merely erecting a model dairy in the midst of a farming con- munity, we do not expect to bring the dairymen to the views of scient- ists and bacteriologists, but we have system of making sanitary condi- tions pay the farmers" Measures requiring care, rather than financial outlay, will be encouraged, and a larger price offered to farmers for milk so produced. To farmers who add equipment and undergo expense and further care, tuberculin
 test, etc., a second increase in price will be given. This will make it
 worth while for the farmer to be scientific in his methods. The whole dairy is to be managed on business principles, and it's working plan and
 financial progress made public-the expectation being to make a reason able profit and demonstrate that
 clean milk is practical commercial possibility. This milk will be sold
 at the seven milk stations of the as sociation, operated since last spring,
 and elsewhere as there is demand Already desire has been expressed for more stations in the Bronx and other localities. The estimate for plant, equipment, including con- pressed air, cans, store furnishings, horses, trucks, etc., amounts to S11, ,760, while there will be capital of $19,240 to meet expenses. Daily outlay for milk, cheescloth, corks, paper bottles, etc., will be O,2OS;
 daily sales estimated at about
 $10O,000. These figures are based on the amount of milk now sold at the seven milk stations This is cer- tainly step in the right direction.
 These men evidently begin tc see and understand that if they desire a higher grade of milk, in order to procure it, they must pay the pro- ducer fair price, giving him the
 benefit of the profit that is his just due, and the encouragement to adopt
 modern means and methods. Here is beginning of the other end of the
 line! The Dairymens League has begun work among the farmers, op- ening their eyes to their rights and opportunities, and how to recover the liberty they have lost, and now
 he consumers are taking up the matter, beginning to realize the
 necessity and satisfaction of pure milk and the fact that the farmers cannot afford to produce such milk for pleasure, it is their chief source
 of revenue, and in order to work suc- c"ssfullv they must realize from their labors something more than a mere living. This is most encour-