New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-09
Perturbation Plants Up
State to Open War
for Control.
SUPPLY YESTERDAY
SHORT OF PROMISE
Big Three Still Refuse
TO Yield - Seek New
Sources for Aid.

Enthused By their victory over the
big three" milk distributing compa-
MES, brought By the give-and-take
agreement with the middle class and
smaller dealers, leaders Of the Dairy
mems League, will act Immediately on
the second step Of what, it develops, is
a comprehensive plan TO change the en-
tire aspect Of the milk producing and
marketing industry. The victory Of
the six months contract plan, in its
essentials. was the first step.
The new move comprehends the elm
nation of the distributor as donli-
mating factor in the industry By re-
placing the upstate pasteurization
plants and milk assembling stations,
now owned by the dealers, with CO.
operative institutions controlled By the
men who own the cows.
Dairymen Reveal Plan.
The announcement was made yester-
day by F. II. Thomson. Of Holland
Patent, y. Y, vice-president OF the
Dairymen's Leagte and an authority
on scientific farming and dairying
problems.
His statement comes after the an
nouncement of II. n. Hallock, vice
president OF Borden's Condensed Mix
Company, that the concern will bring
200 cows from upstate to the companyS
Flushing, Long Island, plant and make
a practical test of dairy farming with
in the confines Of the greater city.
Mr.. Thomson said all details OF the
leagues proposed new step have been
worked out with great care. Papers al
ready have been drafted TO put IN CIR
culation among the farmers, when
when signed will bind the producers 70
an agreement to take stock IN pasteurl-
cation plants 20 be erected 70 dIsplace
the stations owned by the dealers. me
farmers pledge themselves TO subscribe
for shares in accordance with the num-
Der of cows they have. This done,
stock companies will be organized and
incorporated. -,
Then the farmers spokesmen will
approach the distributing concern
heads and ask them which they pre-
fer. 10 sell their plants or have the
farmers build. plants Of their own ana
open up in competition.
Farmer to Test Strength.
"The time has come" said Mr..
Thomson. when the farmer, instead
of the dealer. is going to be CONNER
ciallv stronger. This is matter we
have had under way for long time,
and the victory just won puts US into
a position 10 20 ahead with the CO.
operative plant idea.
81 might say we already have fair
start. L. D. Cooper, chairman of the
executive committee of the league, who
fathered the idea, had led movement
which resulted in the erection or
pasteurization plant in Little Falls.
This was opened last April. Here MIX
il pasteurized by the farmers and
shipped 10 New York, where the dlstrlo-
utter retails II among the customers.
The Modern Dairy Company handles
most Of the milk Of this plant The
Little Falls nlant may be said TO be
the forerunner Of the new idea"
The quantity Of milk received yester-
dav by the dealers who figured in the
Manhattan Hotel compromise settle
ment Of early Saturday was disappoint-
ing. New York was obliged TO manage
during the day with a little over hall
the normal supply.
At the office of John J. Dillon, State
Commissioner Of Foods and Markets
and agent for the Dairymen's League,
this was explained with the statement
that many OF the farmers received
word Of the settlement too late to make
their milk ready for shipment Saturday
night. Improvement was promised to-
day.
Mr.. Dillon asserted the cooperative
creameries would mean eight-cent milk
for New York if the public bought their
milk at butcher shops and delicatessen
stores. He said farmers with their
own plants could deliver milk 10 store
keepers for seven cents quart.
Meanwhile the big three"-Borden's
Sheffield Farms-Slawson Decker and the
Mutual McDermott companies assert
they have no intention Of captivating
TO the leagues demands or coming IN
under the compromise provisions.
They continue TO seek new sources
of supply. Borden's claimed TO dis
tribute about so and Sheffield Farms
between so and 70 per cent Of their
normal supply.