Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1909-10-01
Cost of Milk Goes LIN.

pay ~ cents gallon for the former arti-
Gle and 80 cents a gallon for the latter,
beginning October | and continuing seven
months. This was decided upon this
morning by the Milk Producers Associa-
ton of Maryland, Virginia and the Dis
trict of Columbia. which met at King Hall,
623 Louisiana avenue. Ii means that the
winter wholesale price of milk, direct from
the dairy farm, is to be charged just one
month earlier than usual The producers
to man spoke of lean summer, with
drought the like of which has not been seen
by the oldest inhabitant, and corn crop
which is to feed the herds the coming win
ter reduced in some cases to one-half.
This action does not mean that the re-
tail dealers of Washington will raise the
price of milk and cream per quart. They
may do so and they may not They have
an association of their own The summer
price fixed by the Milk Producers AsSocia-
ton has been Il cents gallon for milk
and 81 1-2 cents gallon for cream. The
price of both goes up and down according
to the season of the year, but fixing the
winter price for October is new depart
| ure.
WHAT DAIRYMEN SAY.
There were some dairymen who said
they could get "a cents gallon and more
from the dealers this winter because milk
would be scarce. and they were in favor
M hot
were averse to putting the screws on 50
tight. They said that although the milk
producers undoubtedly had the milk dealers
in hole just now. the conditions will be
changed eventually and the dealers would
not forget that the farmers had made high
prices when they had the chance.
These prices refer to standard milk.
Some producers get more than the associa-
TONS price because they furnish milk much
higher than the standard. There was
good bit of discussion over this matter. In
an informal discussion of the ways and
means to maintain the price of milk for
the month of October, one man suggested
that if the dealers here refuse to pay the
price every producer should refuse to ship
milk to Washington.
The first price suggested for a gallon
of cream was so cents. A cream shipper
said that with milk bringing % cents a
gallon there would be no money in cream
at that price. 1t takes five gallons of
standard milk to produce gallon of cream,
according to the milk producers. conse-
quently the association believes that so
cents gallon for cream is low price for
this coming winter.
Dr. WOODWARD MAKES ADDRESS
Health Officer Woodward spoke to the
dairymen for few minutes this morning
He expressed his intention of strengthen
ing the entente cordiale between his de-
partment and the milk producers. He
went into the question of infant mortality
as far as it was affected by milk and
showed tabulated results in five-year Pc
RODS since 1884. Since the enactment of
the milk law, DR.. Woodward said, the death
rate of infants from causes assigned to
milk had been reduced from IFS per hun
bred thousand of population to 9S. He
congratulated the milk producers on their
progress and told them that cooperation
was needed all the time between the farmer
with herd of cattle and the milk in
spectors.
The association elected the following
officers President, John Thomas, of Sandy
Spring; vice president. John b. Diamond.
of Gaithersburg secretary. Lamar Jack
son treasurer. Jas. W. Roberts. of Alex
andria, Va. The executive committee
elected consisted of A. d. larson. of Alex /
andria county. Va. E. C. Gilbert, of Fair
fax county Va: S P Fogel. of Prince viii |
liam county Va; Mr.. Turner, of Fauquier /
county. Va; Harry Famous. of Loudoun
county, Va; D. A. Slaughter. of Culpeper /!
county. Va; E. D. GosS. of Orange county, /
Va; Ernest Holland. of Montgomery coun- /
ty, Md; Howard Allnutt. of Frederick I
county Md; C. r. Yeager. of Prince /
Georges county, Md.
In his opening address President Thomas |
reminded the members of the association |
that the day was past when the milk in
spector was looked upon as an irreconcila- |
BILE enemy, and that recent years had seen I
1.-The lion and the lamb lie down together. |
and it would not be long before little |
child could lead them = Washington Sfar !
of Wednesday.