The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-05-02
Although There is Reduction
in the Amount
IN NEW ENGLAND STATES
Contractors Admit They Are Getting
Milk from Places Not Regular
Sources Producers State
ment Made.

Boston, May 2.-The milk famine for
Boston, predicted to begin yesterday
through the determination Of the farm
ers to withhold their milk unless paid
the winter price through the coming
summer season, did not msterialize ao-
cording 20 tbs signs and claims Of the
contractors It Ind been claimed that
from 10000 to $4,000 cans, OF eight and
one-half quarts to the can. would Be
withheld By the producers, beginning
Sunday The milk trains. which came
in early in the day brought many empty
cans, but on the other hand there ap-
peared to be The usual amount Of milk
ready for tho contractors to turn over
to the retailers and from no section was
heard any complaint as to scarcity Of
milk
The representatives Of the producers
explained this BY stating that the con
tractors had put into circulation milk
which bad been held up and pasteurized
Or otherwise preserved, and further by
securing milk from producers beyond
the customary zone The effect viii
not be felt, the producers say, until the
limited surplus now on hand begins 70
get exhausted.
President Stanley Abbott Of the Bos-
ton Cooperative Milk Producers asso-
ciation declared that the board Of health
would be called upon to watch the sup-
ply in order to prevent the distribution
Of milk that had been stored or been
too long Ia transit if it was shown
70 have fallen below the standard
The contractors maintain that ar
bitration viii be impossible as no one
can properly represent the consumers
and agree for them 70 accept any in-
crease in the retail price, which might
be the crux Of the findings Of the ar
bitration committee
Secretary Hunter, late last night,
stated that he had heard from twenty
five stations throughout New England,
which showed that tie normal output
OF 81 225 cans Of milk from those
towns bad been reduced to 2l,9ls cans
yesterday by the refusal al the farm
ers 10 send in their milk a loss Of TO-
1876 quarts of milk
Sec Hunter said he had been informed
that the milk car which IS operated be-
tween Montpelier and White River June
zion, VT, WAS taken 0H yesterday morn
ing as there was no freight for Il.
The farmers at Bellows BALLS and
vicinity. and many or the producers
along the Cheshire division of TIE Bos-
ton & Maine SIS far south as Ashburn
ham did not withhold their supply.
Agents of the MIX Producers ass0cia
ssion viii interview those farmers to-
saay and endeavor to persuade them to
sjoin the movement Air Hunter said
"Ihe condition as It Is reported from
the LARGE shipping eenters. shows tnat
the strike Is already won, said See.
Hunter last evening sThe farmers re-
sponded npbly to the call 10 withhold
their milk and our success IS assured.
If the condition reported from tAe arge
shipping centers prevails generally the
pinch Of the contractors viii come in
two Or three days
We could not expect to win IN one
day. for il viii take several days 10 use
up the surplus that tine contractors
have been gathering ana hollnq far
this emergency There IS certain
NtaHNlhAs ~ NAiAtt4 Wtilfl bHEN can Beb
daily on account of the existing CON
tracts they have With some producers
But in a few DAYS the supply viii he
very low and there win be no way to
replenisn it. The producers who are
acting with the association are in con
troll Of the situation and must win
The contractors acknowledged last
night that they had been able to secure
al the milk they wanted by bringing
IT from New York state and from Maine
As fast as the milk came into Bos
ton it was treated in conformity with
the prescribed rules of the board of
heal It'll. repacked III sterilized iced cans
and stored in extra milk aud refrigera-
tor cars Extra trackage rights were
secured and tie loaded cars placed on
the sidings thus creating a cold storags
warehouse for the milk on the hired
sidetracISs
Some Of The milk brought in by the
contractors came from as far away rs
New Jersey and Delaware, il was claimed
last night.