Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-30
DAlRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION MEN
SAY SMALL DEALERS WILL
BE FORCED OUT.
PRICE Is CUT TO SEVEN CENTS
Reduction Effective Jan. is Called
Plan to Corner Market--RetaiIer
Lay Wires to Defeat
Monopoly.

Minneapolis, Dec. 29-Following
the example set by the Minneapolis
Milk Company, dairymen supplying
Minneapolis will cut the price of milk
to 7 cents, to be effective Jan. 1. A
meeting of the Dairymen's Associa-
ton will be called Jan. to consider
this cut and to formulate some plan
to fight what they term an effort to
corner the milk supply of the city.
The dairymen declare an effort to
force the small dealers out of bust
ness is the real reason for the cut.
They say it costs as much to keep a
cow in December as it did in Novem-
Der, and some say it costs more.
They say the reason given that the
milk formerly shipped to butter and
cheese manufacturers is now thrown
on the retail market in it's raw state
is not true and that the dealers hand
ling the milk in wholesale quantities
milk products.
The dairymen say the bottling and
bacterial count ordinance, coming into
effect in the near future, combined
with the cut in milk, undoubtedly will
cause scores of small dealers to go
out of business and their trade will
go to the concerns that do a whole
sale and retail business and have
solicitors on the streets drumming
up" trade in the residence districts.
Dictate to Farmers is Charge.
The small dealers declare com
panies now getting milk from the far
mer many miles from the city are
regulating the price of the farm milk
and that without PasteuriZing it they
could not sell it in Minneapolis. They
assert the companies dictate price
to the farmer so low that the dairy
men who make a business of selling
milk cannot hope to compete with the
product even after it has been Pas
teuriZed.
The farmers are willing to expect
this price, otherwise their milk would
have to be used for hog milk or be
thrown away. The farmer does not
ucpCuu UPON Ills uu11h " supply AAA1A
with even pin" money and it is
handled only as a side issue, it is de-
clared.
L. II. Hoyt, president of the Dairy
mems Association, said, while in a
way the price cut was the dairymen's
fault as they have been cutting prices
on one another, the universal reduc-
ton would undoubtedly work a hard
ship on many dairymen.
Trust Methods Charged.
'It has always been the intention
of the big fellows to ultimately con-
troll the supply of Minneapolis" he
said, land they have been working
at it for years This is only one more
step in that direction.
The firm of Riedell & Nelson,
through Mr.. Nelson, declared the cut
to be nothing more than an effort to
control the supply through the eliml'
nation of many small dealers and IN
time the formulating of a corpora
ton among such big dealers as would
come in and the freezing out of those
who endeavored to oppose the move.
"They could cut the milk to cents
a. quart and and hold it there for a
long time and even lower if they once
got control of even a little over the
majority" said Mr.. Nelson. "The peo-
pie are being educated by agents into
believing Pasteurized milk is the best
in the country. If the dairymen could
sell milk produced under the condi-
tons that much of the Pasteurized
milk is we, too, could sell for much
less