Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-30
MILK PRICES HIGHER
BEGINNING TOMORROW
Nine Cents a Quart and Five
Cents a Pint-Scarcity of
Supply Causes Alarm.

On AID after October drst our
prices will he:
| MIX, cents per quart, cents
| per pint.
Cream, 18 cents per pint, cents
| per half pint, 3 cents per gill.
Double cream, IS cents per pint,
Is cents per half pint.
Special milk, 10 cents per quart,
cents per plat.
This Is q COPY of a notice distributed to
patrons this morning by dealers in milk.
The price of milk in Washington com:
| mencing tomorrow. as general thing.
will be cents quart or cents pint.
Notices fixing these rates were sent out
by all dealers this morning. either in
printed form or orally through the drivers
of the milk delivery wagons. Some few
dealers will charge 10 cents q quart.
These prices, it is asserted by the deal
ers, are the same as charged last year
and the year before, and are made neces-
sary by the fact that the dairy farm
owners now charge from 20 to % cents 3
gallon for milk of the District standard.
This price, 1t is asserted by the dealers.
Is exclusive of freight charges and of the
cost Of bottling and delivering the milk to
consumers.
The scale fixed upon by the other deal
ers is practically the same as the fore
going. there being some slight variations
in the price of quantities smaller than
At the meeting of the Milk Dealers AS
ISOLATION at the National Hotel last night
twenty dealers were present. Only mem
bers of the association were allowed In
the meeting room.
AZ no nf the session which
lasted three hours, with w. A. Hart
ranft, the president. presiding, Secretary
]. T.. Rrosius announced that the only
business discussed was the problem OF
increasing the supply of milk, to enable
dealers to keep the price at the same
rate as last winter.
If the dealers are unable to increase
the supply, it was stated, the price Will
undoubtedly increase. Several members
gave the results of Investigations they
had made.
No action was taken at the meeting
last night looking toward obtaining a sup
ply of milk from the Cooperstown region
in New York state under the new freight
rate issued by the Delaware and Hudson
Railroad Company in connection with the
Pennsylvania railroad. Secretary BrOstuS
states, however, that it Is probable that
an order for a car will be placed Wltnih
the next few days. as there seems to be
but little probability of an additional sup
ply being obtained from the nearby
counties Of Maryland and Virginia.
w. A. Hartranft, president Of the asso-
citation, this morning refused to give any
information as to what went on in the
meeting, stating that Secretary Brosius
was the only one authorized to give out
information regarding the meeting.
Manager Barber of the Greenmeadow
Dairy Company is of the opinion that the
shortage in the milk supply will continue
until next spring He is he states. re-
ceiving only about third of the quantity
of milk he usually receives at this season
of the year.
This shortage is due to the fact that
the COWS are not giving the milk. AS the
drought has burned up the grass, the
dairy farmers are now forced to feed
their stock the same as they usually have
to do in the middle Of winter.
Other milk dealers take an opposite
view and state that they believe that by
the middle of November the supply of
milk will be ample to meet the demand.
They assert that, while the drought has
something to do with the shortage, the
larger proportion OF it is due to the fact
that the owners of dairy cattle now find
II more profitable to allow calves to take
the milk than to ship it,
Within the next few weeks the calf
shipping time will begin. AS soon as
they are disposed of the increase in the
milk supply will start.