Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-07
WHAT THE PRODUCERS
ARE KICKING AGAINST.
Contract Which Providence Dairy Co.
Asked Them to Sign.


The milk producers in this end of
the state are holding on well to their
milk and but little is being shipped
TO Providence or Boston. The con-
tracts received by the producers from
the Providence Dairy company and
which the producers of Colchester,
Turnerville, Leonard's Bridge, Chestnut
Hill, Willimantic, South Windhan,
Scotland Baltic, Versailles, Lisbon,
Canterbury and PackerviIle were ex-
pected to sign, reads as follows:
L. The daily average of your deIiv-
cries of milk to US for the past six
months has been Ais cans per day.
We hereby offer to buy of you that
number of cans per day on the average
for each of the coming six months.
2. The prices for the six months
beginning April LIST to Oct. 1st 1910,
for the number of cans of milk up to
the quantity allowed in the first clause
is as follows: April 80 cents, May %
cents, June % cents. July 80 Ncents,
August 80 cents. September 80 cents.
Average, so cents per can for the sea-
son.
8. In addition to the quantity above
for your proportional part COINED with
the excess received from other pro-
ducers) of any number of cans that
you may choose to deliver in excess of
the quantity above named, provided
that this excess, or a part of it, can
be sold for milk consumption. For
that part of it, if any, that cannot be
sold, we will pay its value for butter
for the months of its delivery.
4. All prices in this conartc are
based on can of ten quarts for milk
marked with string tags and delivered
on our car at your station in good or
der All milk sold to US by you is to
be produced in your own dairy.
). Cans are to be washed by the
company at the price of IL cent per
can.
G.. The cows shall Zoe clean and
L. No milk shall be shipped that is
drawn from cows fifteen days before
calving or five days thereafter L. 5.
shall be carefully examined to prevent
shipment of gargety milk.
Z. The COW stable shall be clean. well
lighted and ventilated, and the walls
and ceilings clean and kept well white
washed The surroundings shall be
well kept. The barnyard shall be well
drained.
9. A cooling tank shall be provided
in a proper place. Imne diateIy after
being MIXED, the milk shall be placed
in cold water and reduced to a tenn
perature of so degrees or lower within
one hour. When necessary to accom-
plish this, ice shall be used. Gee is
generally required from April 1st TO
nights shall be cooled. Milk shall be
delivered at the car at temperature
not exceeding so degrees Fahrenheit
and not containing over 100000 bac-
terra per cubic centimeter.
TO- Milk>shaH be relivered unfrozen:
II. During transportation from the
producer to the car. cans shall be pro-
tected from the cold. heat, dust and
mud by a clean covering.
II. Milk shall contain 1915 per cent.
total solids, of which not less than $50
per cent. shall be butterfaf; IL shall be
sweet, understandable, free from dust
and pus, and conform to the require
ments of the boards of health of Prov
ident and state of Rhode Island.
Is. In the case of the breaking out
typhoid fever, diphtheria, chicken pox
and smallpox among persons or fami
lies of persons concerned in the hand
ling of milk, shipment of the milk shall
be stopped and immediate notification
given to the company. Shipment of
hilk shall not be resumed without the
authority of the company. If these in
structionS are observed, milk kept at
home will be paid for by the company.
Milk withheld during quarantine may
domestic animals.
IA. The purchase of milk may be
stopped if the above requirements are
not compiled with.
Is. The producer hereby licenses the
company, or its agent, to enter upon
his premises at reasonable times for
the purpose of inspecting his COWS.
buildings, apparatus, etc, used for pro-
ducing and cooling his milk.
16. The right is reserved to stop
purchasing from all producers who do
not send at least two cans daily.
II. All bills not sent in by the 5th
of each month will remain unpaid until
the following month. When payment
is made the receipted bills must be
returned within five days, and no pay
ments of any bill will be made until
the receipts for all previous payments
have been returned.
Is. Milk cans are the property of
the persons or company whose name
they bear. The Connecticut Massa-
chusetts and New Hampshire legiSla-
lures have passed laws making it a
criminal offense. with suitable punish
ments, to retain, or make use Of a
milk can for any purpose, without con-
sent of it's owner.
10. The price of milk shall be one
cent less than that named in the table
until the producer shall execute con-
tract; but this rule shall not apply if
a signed contrsct is received in the of
fee OF the party of the first part on or
before April 25th. The party of the
first part Will not be responsible for
the la lure Of their employe 10 receive
and deliver contracts. II a producer
is unwilling to accept thr risk of such
failure, he should use other means OF
20. Two offers are enclosed here
with-one to be rTtained by the pro-
Queer. the other to- be signed and
turned TO tbs company