Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-02
MILK DEALERS BOOST
CREAM PRICE TO MEET
DEMAND OF FARMERS
Wholesale Figure Goes Up,
Hence One Cent Added to Re-
tail--Milk Also to
Go Up
OTHER CITIES COMPETE

majority Of the milk dealers OF the
city today raised the price OF cream one
cent on bottles Of all sizes. following the
action OF farmers yesterday In advancing
tho wholesale price OF milk from TO bh
cents the quart. An advance In the price
OF milk from 10 . cents the quart by
November is predicted.
Scott pawell a Co, one OF the largest
milk dealers In West Philadelphia, ad-
vRnced the price Of milk from To
cents TO all customers In suburban sections.
Increased costs Ia suburban delivery ~
given as tho reason. The advance does not
affect the Philadelphia business OF Scott
Powell a Co.
PREDICTS FURTHER INCREASE
In predicting that there was likely 20 be
n general Increase In the price OF milk an
along the line by November 1. an official OF
the Philadelphia Milk Exchange said
philadelphia is the only city between
Maine and Washington that is stll clinglng
TO the price OF eight cents quart for milk.
In Boston dealers are retailing milk for
eleven and twelve cents,
Yesterday the farmers in the Philadel-
phia milk zone raised the wholesale price
from Ave TO i've and one-haf cents the
quart, and the farmers say the Wholesale
price ia going still higher. The situation In
New York II helping TO boost the wholesale
price here There IN "A row on between the
New York dealers aud the farmers who
supply that zone. As result the New
York deaiera are reaching into the Phila-
delphia zone for their milk This MAKES
the farmers around here feel Independent
Of us, and they say we must pay their
price.
Dealers we're paying from seven TO eight
cents the quart this morning for surplus
milk. and II is certain they cannot Keep
that UP long. In addition to paying seven
and eight cents for this surplus milk, they
were obliged 10 undertake the expense OF
bottlng and delivery"
SUBURBAN INCREASES
Robert Powell. in explaining the increase
of the price In the suburban sections. said
suburban delivery costs a third more
than Il did a year ago The cost OF feed
for horses has advanced and maintenance
OF equipment is more costly Then when
tho farmers advanced the price half cent
we had 20 boast the retail price In the sub
urbs 10 nine cents"
II. T. Sypherd. another milk dealer, said
The farmers are asking Ave and a half
cents the quart, and they say they are going
TO get six cents before many weeks. There
IN no doubt but that there is great
scarcity OF milk. due principally to poor
pasturage all summer. Milk IL higher now
than II has been since the Civil War, and
IL looks as II the price In going still higher.
Everything has advanced In this city
but milk. Bread and -four and other com
milk? The milk dealer has to pay higher
prices for everything and yet he has re-
Trained from putting up the retail price
to meet the additional expense"
The manager of the supplee Alderney
Dairy, 111s Jefferson street. announced that
tho Supplee Company had not raised the
price. and had no immediate intention OF
30 doing.
Joseph l.. Jones. OF Wills. Jones. McEwen
Company. said his firm had raised cream
one cent on bottles OF all sizes and that
probably milk would he raised later. The
fntmers. no said. are demanding higher
prices Wholesale, which must affect the city
retail prices.
THE farmers In the territory supplying
Philadelphla milk" said Mr.. Jones. "can
also sell their milk to the New York and
baltimore markets, which pay better prices
than Philadelphia. Consequently they can
demand more under this competition. New
York milk retails at ten cents, Baltimore at
nine cents. II Philadelphia is TO hold its
supply We will be forced TO pay more to
the farmers."
Charles Gross. 2i23 westmoreland street.
said the farmers would be getting six cents
wholesale before the end OF this month, and
that city dealers would be forced 20 ask
nine cents quart retail. Farmers, he said
now get hve and one-half cents, and some
OF them want six. Mr.. Gross has not yet
raised the price OF milk, but this morning
no Joined the general raise OF one cent In
prices Tor cream, making pints sixteen cents
and quart bottles thlrty-one cents.
number OF dealers said they had not
planned any increase In price. David
Harvey, i70b West Dauphin street said he
| farmers price.
TIP TO HOUSEWIVES
IL was pointed out by a milk dealer that
II housewives buy their cream by the pint.
Instead OF by the half pint or quarter pint,
they VIII virtually escape the Increase OF
/ one cent.
For instance, table cream has been ad
Nanced from hve 20 six cents the quarter
pint and from eight 10 nine cents the half
pint The advance on pint Is from fifteen
70 sixteen cents. so Il can be readily seen
that Il VIII pay housewives 10 buy by the
| pint
While few families use n pint OF cream
a day. the cream win last two or three
days II placed on the Ice and can be used
daily as needed,
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