The sun., 1916-10-02

When -old that ,hr Sheffield Farms
president had appealed To Tn" Attorney
General so proceed against The Dairy
mems League under tn" l'onfSly act.
Commissioner Dillon laughed and said:
Maybe 1t II subject 10 attack, but
ted yuu that - there ~ n law in the stat"
hN which a work Of this Kind can he at
lacked laws will be made that; will make
the result Of oir work successful.
'"Th. condition that distributors of milk
have brought about In This city IL intol-
cradle for a civilized community he ON
;inued. ''This ~ the last whine they
hey. go,. The big distributors are
whjpped and they know H. They have
dictated all these years to the producers
cf milk. They tell the farmers what they
are going to get, and six or eight weeks
after they get the milk 'hcy pay the
farmers what they please
COMMISSIONS Dillon said that the big
milk companies own all the pasteuriking
plants and the big volume OF ml'y neces-
sary for New York's needs must lie
pasteurixed under the law.
AS long as the law says this" me
COMMISSIONS went on. the mix cant
com, in. and the big distributors are the
bes.es OF the situation. We tneaning
,bc armer organizationl have about
twenty or twenty-five pasteuri1aiion
nIan,s out OF 1000 in the milk producing
districts. -
We are short of cans. too. The big
eomnanIes own mos, OF them. Some OF
the small dealers have cans or their own
ana tbes. we are using. II Health Com-
missioner Emerson FELT like letting down
On the regulations regarding pasteuriha-
tom, I would get milk into all butcher
shops In New York. and 1t could b% sold
eA. twxA TNnfA n unATv
lees than II IL now being retailed.
The Commissioner expressed his ne
,,sf that the Borden concern Is not get.
Ting more than 3 per cent. OF is usua,
daily supply from the territory covered
by the Dairymer's League.
He insisted that the strong features
OF the farmers organization are the sem
timent that is back Of IL and the means
that It affords for protecting against
abuses which have existed 80 long
Mr.. Dillon said armer are putting ur
pasteurizat,on plants all over the state.
re SAID thai, It has also been proposed
to organize a big cooperative distributing
compary in this city that VIII compete
With the existing concerns. He was
ssre SUCH a plant as proposed would be
able TO distribute from Is to 20 per cent
y all the milk that comes 10 me city
ikow 10 finance such q venture, he ad'
mitted, would be ! problem.
Little MilL Coming.
y. ~. Thomson. vice-presidert OF tht
Dairymen's League: Albert Manning and
clifford l.. Hough. representing th'
league. remained at the Commissioner
office, a0i Franklin street. yesterday and
-ecelved reports from the progress OF The
strike. They were advised that no mill
80 -. 1I-- ~ tn -
y, Otlsville. y. Y, and Washington
Conn, FOR New York yests,iay. Neither
did any leave the Sheffield Farms plan
a. HlI,sda'e, y. !. Another Export came
m 20 tho effect that the Mitchell lair,
Tmpary at bridgeport. Conn. admitted
i.fes, and agreed tn pay TIN farmers tn
rrica they had demanded.
+. r. Hatch. "A New Yurf rilt dealer
'rld the delegation that le had beer
unable tn get q single drop Of milk a
Uack River. jefferson county. the source
- his entire supply. and he would droI