Connecticut western news., 1910-11-10
PRICE OF MILK RISES
BORDEN PAYS MORE
 THAN EVER BEFORE
Canaan Plant Handles Average of 5000 Quarts DaiIythe Year Round New Haven Dealers May Raise Retail Price to 10 Cents a Quart.

Retail Price to 10 Cents Quart.
 Milk dealers in New Haven have just raised the retail price of milk from eight cents quart to nine, and give inti- nation that it may go to ten cents be- fore the end of winter. A local dealer, discussing the situation, said the high price of meat has made cattle so valu- able that the cattle raisers can make more money by selling them off to be slaughtered than by keeping the cows for milking purposes. This has raised the price of milch COW from $40, which it used to be, to between $80 and $10O. The New Haven dealers claim the price of milk in that city has been kept lower than in other cities in the state. and that the nine cent price has been in effect in Bridgeport, Hartford and Springfield since September.
 Inquiry at the Canaan plant of the Borden Company elicits from Snperin- tendent Wilcox. the information that nine cents is the regular winter selling price of Borden milk in New York. MT. Wilcox does not expect to see the price raised to ten cents this winter, though ls thinks that eventually that will be the regular winter price.
 The Borden concern is paying higher Lrices for milk to the farmers and pro- ducers thar ever before, and attributes the increase to the reason assigned by the New Haven milkmen-the high price of meat and the consequent higher value of cattle for slaughtering. The ruling price to producers, at the present time is $2.20 per 100 pounds, or about 43 8 cents quart. The average summer price has been Is cents. Whether the price will be higher next summer will depend largely upon conditions of weather, crop prospects, the milk supply itself and the situation in the butter and cheese mar ket, these latter products affecting the milk question in no small degree Tn plus of milk, the Company manufactures considerable quantities of butter for the market. and finds great demand for buttermilk, which is sold not only in New York but in the Norwalks. Stam- ford and New Rochelle.
 About 5000 quarts day are received at the Borden's Canaan plant the year round, practically all of which is shipped to New York in bottles. The Bordens have about 90 plants, many of them larger than the Canaan plant, all handling, on an average, about the same quantity as the plant here, and all sending the product to New York-which means that Borden contributes daily not less than 720,000 quarts of New York's milk supply. When it is borne in mind that the population of New York is approxi- mately 100000, it will be observed that even this stupendous daily total is hardly toothful in comparison to the require ments of the big city.
 TheaCanaan plant of the Borden con- cern is supplied with milk by the farmers of all the region round about, including. Mill River. Canaan Valley, Hadsell Street, South Canaan, etc.
 The plant here has capacity for handling 12,000 quarts day. It's equip ment of machinery is of the most modern design, and in all it's appointments it is a model institution. It employs force of 22 men at present, including drivers. and is under the supervision of MT. Frank H. Wilcox, who not only superin- tends the Canaan plant but has super visory charge of the eighteen other plants of the Borden Company located on this side of the Hudson River, to which he makes periodical visits of inspection. He has been connected with the Borden Company for eleven years, knows the milk and creamery business from top to bottom, and has contributed not little toward making the Canaan plant the popular and successful institution that it is.