El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-18

bubble. 1t does .unquestionably fix
price for its own product; and, mas
much as it controls the bulk of the OUT
put, the price, whatever it may be, is
promptly met by all the outsiders.
The "oil trust has been regarded as
a dangerous monopoly. But petroleum
however, useful, is not one Of the nee
essaries of life. Milk is prime neces-
sary. If the entire milk supply were
cut off suddenly and for an lndeIinl le
period. consequences would follow -
dreadful that imagination can haruiy
grasp them. The birth rate actuaiiy
depends to a large extent upon inc
COW, which in a sense is the universal
foster mother Of mankind.
Is Tax on Baby's bottle.
The baby's bottle pays a tax to the
richest man in the world. John u.
Rockefeller is supposed to be worth AT
least $500, 100000 He is the head Oh
the milk trust" Nobody finds nm
advertised as such, because that ven
cradle philanthropist prefers to gamer
in the shekels quietly and without os-
tentatiOn. When he gives money
away, Of course, it is different. Inc
annual income he derives from the
sale of milk is enormous, but WhSt
it amounts to could be disclosed only
by getting at the secret accounts.
Enormous quantities Of milk in thls
country are put up in cans, after pc
ing evapOrated or condensed Prac-
tically the whole of this business IS n
the hands Of the milk trust, WINCH
in q dozen different towns in New
York state alone. maintains for the
purpose huge factories These eSIaD-
lishments manufacture their own cans
and, their supplies of milk being oO-
tanned direct from the dairy IarIls
which the trust owns or controls
the business is systematized in sucn
a way as to render it highly profit
able. Babies that are fed on condenser
or evaporated milk do not escape pay
ing the inevitable tax to Mr.. Rocke-
teller and his associates Of the stand
ard Oil company
where standard OH Comes In.
Widely scattered over other states
are similar factories, which, in con-
nection with the putting up of milk IN
cans, have developed in some lnstahce
a side line-the manufacture of mix
chocolate. The Standard Oil through
this branch of its activities, is at pres
ent one of the largest makers OF emo
cOlate in the world. Its milk choco-
late, chocolate caramels, and other
preparations of chocolate are sold IN
enormous quantities all over the United
States. They are marketed under
great variety of brands and trade
names.
The dependence of mankind upon the
cow may be judged from the fact that
over $4,000, GOO gallons of milk and
cream are produced and sold annually
by farmers in the United States. The
average quantity of milk consumed by
the urban and suburban population Of
this country is reckOned by the gov
eminent bureau Of animal industry at
% gallons year for each person.
Can Keep Clean Milk for Weeks.
Recent experiments made by gov
eminent experts have Developed the
interesting fact that clean milk viii
remain fresh for six and even seven
weeks, If kept at a temperature OF
40 to ~ degrees Fahrenheit. What
causes milk to go stale so rapidly is
that it nearly always contains more or
less dirt. It is rare bottle of milk
that does not contain ct least a small
quantity Of stable filth. The cOndi-
tions which make clean milk possible
are uncommon. but they will become