New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-24
DILLON ARRANGES
FOR CHEAP MILK
Butchers to Cooperate
with Dairymen in System
Operative January |

The organization OF system OF NIL
distribution by which New York con-
sumers may be furnished with Grade B
milk through the butchers Of the
greater city at prices ranging from
seven 20 nine cents q quart. varying
with the seasons. was announced yes
terdsy by John J. Dillon. State Com
missioner Of Foods and Markets. Mr..
Dillon declared that tho plan had been
developed so far that IL is practically
a certainty that the delivery OF milk
at these prices can begin shortly after
January /.
When we have our system in good
working ORDER said Mr.. Dillon. "the
prices for the greater part Of the year
will be seven and eight cents. and nine
cents during about a month in the
period when milk is scarce and trans
portation and carriage costs are CORE
spondingly higher. In some Of the
summer months. such as May and June.
when there is plenty Of milk and prices
20 the farmer are lower than at other
periods of the year. we expect to be
able 70 deliver milk at six cents quart
in bottles"
Mr.. Dillon said that this saving 70
the consumer will be effected by a CO.
operative association. composed of
members Of the Dairymen's League,
which recently waged winning fight
for higher prices against the big milk
companies. and the butchers who are
RVr% Cho
Association. This latter organization
includes IT. its membership practically
every butcher shop N greater New
York.
Will Avoid Duplication
The plan is for the farmers to ship
the milk TO New York. where it will be
delivered by the butcher shops along
routes that will be carefully mapped
out TO prevent the duplication that is
now one Of the principal reasons for
the high distributing cost.
The plan which Mr.. Dillon and
committee from the Dairymen's League
and the Butchers Association are per
fecting has been in process of forma-
ton since the beginning Of the recent
milk strike. The league has obtained
the services Of several pasteurizatlon
plants capable Of producing about lOO,-
coo quarts Of milk a day. and others
are being erected. By January l Mr..
Dillon believes that enough OF them
will have been built TO enable the
league and the butchers to handle as
much business as they will have at
that time.
The Borden Milk Company announced
Yesterday. through the medium OF news
Daper advertisements, that hereafter
Grade B milk would be sold for cents
a quart 70 all persons who came 70 the
Borden stores and took it away IN their
own containers.
Officials Of several Of the other large
milk distributing companies declared
Yesterday that the Borden announce
ment did not mean reduction IN the
price Of milk.
Horton for Increase
Every company that sells loose milk
nv the quart or pint at its own stores
sells il for 3 cents a quart SAID an
official Of the Sheffield Farms-Slawson-
Decker Company, "and has been dong
so since October J.
That he would raise the price OF
Grade B milk. now selling at 10 cents
quart. 20 II cents on The first OF nex'
month i ne could get the other dlscrlo D.
uters 70 90 likewise, was me uec.A
ton Of Lotion Horton, pres dent Of the
Sheffield Farms-Slawson Decker Com
vany. at a meeting Of the City Cluo' az
IS West Forty-fourth street, last nlgh1
IN presenting the dealers side OF the
rece1+ controversy Mr. Horton declared
there had been days on which his firm
had not cleared as much as dollar
and that milk often is sold for less than
il costs. -.
He stated that within the last two
wears practically everything used in the
distribution OF milk has advanced IN
Drice from 25 20 100 per cent. The
aairvmen's side was presented by Com
missioner Dillon.