New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-19
milk men WORRIED
BY GRADE { PLAN
Dealers Busy Specializing
on Outcome of Sweeping
Sterilization Law.
WHOLESALE CONCERNS
HARD HIT, HORTON SAYS
Health Board Determined That
All Offenders Shall Suffer
Fullest Penalties.

With only two weeks intervening before
the most sweeping regulation ever adopted
by the Board OF Health for the better
ment Of the milk supply IN this city goes
INTO effect-thst o. pasteurizlng all bu;
Grade A. or certified, nilk-it was learned
yesterday that there was much uneasiness
among the smaller dealers. Speculation
was rife as 10 how far the health authori-
ties would go II the law was not complied
with.
Lotion Horton. president OF the Sheffield
Farms Slawson-Decker Company said
yesterday
we have been ready for year. only
negligible quantity Of the milk we
handle is raw We do no business in
loose milk with small stores. but nave
stores OF our own
Mr. Horton denied he had heard any
thing al out q petition being circulated D.
the small storekeepers. lie said, how
ever. that ne thought the persons who
would feel tho ruling most would be seven
or eight wholesale milk dealers, who, he
declared supplied at least So per cent o.
the loose" or Grade c, milk sold in the
city.
:. Frederick Taylor, president Of the
Borden Company. said
Il. is q matter OF great expense to full
III the pasteUrization regulations adopted
by the health authorities. We have been at
work trying TO complete our plant to meet
the requirements in that direction and
hope TO do so by February I, but II We do
not we will ask the indulgence Of the
Board OF Health for an extension OF time
81 don't believe the Health Commission
ar Will act arbitrarily In the matter
Where il is shown conclusively that
company has tried 10 conform TO the
regulations think it will be given little
time TO Get ready That has been the
policy OF the health officials. and we now
have the finest milk supply Of any city
IN the world
The Health Department recently an
nounced that in the last four years, under
the steady pressure or increasingly
stringent regulations, the percentage OF
pasteurized milk to the total daily supply
had been raised from at the beginning
Of the administration TO 10 at the present
time
With a change imminent in the post OF
Health Commissioner, the incoming OF
fetal probably will have this problem on
his hands Rumors OF opposition by GER
tain small dealers have been prevalent OF
late On the other hand, it is known that
organizations interested in having the
regulations carried into effect Immediately
will bend every effort in that direction.
The recent typhoid epidemic has made
them all the more anxious that the plan Oh
pastcurization be carried into effect.
The Central Council OF Public Health
! in report within the last week speaks
of the regulations as most wise and
commendable." il is known also that the
/ New York Milk Committee is working TOT
| the prompt application of the regulations.
Investigators Of this organization recently
| found stores selling milk without any
permits from the Department OF Healtn.
The New York Consumers League found
i'm an investigation OF ffty-seven stores on
the East Side that 7O6 per cent OF the
milk sold was raw and only 29.4 per cent
( rastcuriZed