The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-08-11
FAVORS
DAIRY INSPECTION
ALSO FAvORs BETTER PRICES FOR
MILK
Says Farmers Should Produce Sanitary
Milk and Get Price Commensurate
With Its Cost


Townships of Vienna and Thetford:-I
wish to say few words to you in re-
gard to the milk regulations and other
things. First, do not kick and holler
because you are required to clean up
and fix up your barns, cow stables, and
milk utensils and build milk houses.
say you owe this to yourself and fam
lily, to say nothing about anybody else.
Does not yourself, your wife and chill
dren need good. clean, sanitary milk as
much as anybody? say yes, you do,
and more. If anybody in this world
should have the best of everything it |
should be the man who by the sweat of
his brow produces it. Then go ahead
and fix up according to the require
ments of the law and you will feel
proud of our work when done and then
you will be in shape to produce one of
the surest money making and conserva-
tive commodities that can be produced
on the farm, in my opinion. And with
fair living price for your milk any
man that has good bunch of cows, if
he will feed them and take care of
them, is sure of making good living
let it rain or shine. He can go to bed
at night with nothing to fear for he
knows his cows will always win out.
Then again, if you keep cows, you
are turning the crops you raise on your
farm into cash through your cows and
at the same time putting nearly all its
fertilizing elements back on the land
again. which is the only safe and sure
way to keep up the fertility of our
farms.
have noticed while going through
the county that all farms where cows
had been kept for any length of time.
show marked difference from those
where grain crops mainly were grown.
Not only was the land better, but the
buildings, fences and surroundings were
better. Then, say, with fair price
for your milk you should make good.
OIL | hear somebody ask, What's a
fair price for milk and how are we to
get it," cannot answer the question
today, clearly, but will be able to an
swer it correctly in a few months
However, | can say that have figures
compiled by man from the Agricul-
tural college at Lansing, who has been
secured to test out % herds of milch
cows at Howell, Livingston County,
| Mich RI 1atarp,i,a tho oost &c proJro
ing milk for the year under all condi-
tions. The figures compiled for two
months, March and April, show that it
cost for the former month 81. .83 and
for the latter month Sl.85 for each 100
pounds of milk produced and which sold
for 81. 81 and 81. Al, respectively. These
figures show that the owners of those
25 herds of cows sustained an actual
loss of 31c per hundred for the month
of March and Ale per hundred for the
month of April. And the report also
shows that the highest cost and the
greatest loss came to the herds receiv-
ing the best care and producing the
cleanest milk. Now, it must be remem-
bered, that all land, tools, ETC., had a
fair rental value placed upon them, and
a fair price was placed upon each COW,
as producing animal and regardless
of her breeding. all of which was
charged against the milk, as that would
be the fair way to compute the cost of
production. Now you ask me what's
the remedy or what can we do to stop
this loss to the milk producer? say
emphatically that every milk producer
must join hands with the Protective
, Milk Association that was Incorporated
at Lansing last spring. and when all
, milk producers of Michigan, or the ma
jority of them, are associated together
then we can do something and not until
e then. Somebody says there will be an
E over production of milk and then it
a would be sure to go down. Such a
thing might happen. but its not likely
to happen, as long as you see those
5 great factories rushed with work and
calling for help and see the cities grow
! ing by leaps and bounds. | ask you
how much milk was taken into Flint
e from Clio ten years ago? | again ask
n you how much was shipped to the city
: of Detroit ten years ago? What do |
hear? | think can safely say there
: was none. Then ask you what's the
prospect of over production? Very lit
tie. Then, | want to say to you farm
e ers and dairymen that the outlook for
the production of good milk and better
prices never were brighter. | want a
square deal for the dairyman and the
3 farmer and it's about time he stood up
/ and demanded his rights and got them.
8 Hoping for the success of the Milk
Producers Association. recently organ
: lied at Lansing,
I am aincaralu unllrs