The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-18
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In regard to high price of milk there
is no such thing. Taking everything
into consideration milk today at thir-
teen cents is one of the cheapest foods
on the market.
As these are days Of Investigations,
why don t the housewives Of Chicago
investigate how quart of milk COM
pares with other foods. AS an exam
pie, one quart of milk at thirteen cents
is equal to twenty-three cents of round
steak, twenty-six cents worth of eggs,
or seventy-fve cents worth of oysters.
The consumer can add others to suit
their own needs.
At the above figures per quart Of
milk the producer gets trife less than
seven and one-half cents per quart and
the distributor trife more than FIVE
and one-half cents for his service which
I call very fair to the consumer.
They say ignorance is bliss. In this
case I think it is bad thing. The
sooner the consumer finds out what it
costs to make and deliver quart of
milk the better it will be for all Of us.
We all have different views. The
producer thinks the consumer gets his
milk too cheap and that the dealer
makes too big profit.
The consumer thinks that we are
both robbing him; what the dealer
thinks / don It know What do know
is that he wants our milk and is will
ing to pay the price. Milk is scarce
even at the present time. Several
dealers are offering premium. Where
Will it be when winter sets in?.
Let as get better acquainted with
one another, According to informa-
ton the consumer learns from reading
the daily papers, he gets wrong i'm
preston of the producer. call that
misinformation. Milk is an article
that has always been manufactured
and sold at or below cost. Going back
to information again, we will say that
the milk consuming public is entitled
to all the information it can get.
A few words about the federal in
vestigation of the so-called boost Of
milk prices. There is nothing the milk
producers would like better than a
thorough investigation. Take for in
stance one or more diaries, say, in each
county of the Chicago milk producing
district. Pay depreciation and inter
est on the investment, hire their own
labor, buy their own feed, charge the
dairymen for manure made, and often
you find the net cost allowed the dairy
men a fair and just profit. The same
the price of this winters milk and We
would be tickled to death.
] saw in the Chicago Tribune some
time ago statement by the health
officers of Chicago, that there was nc
reason for the October rise in the price
of milk. Feed was so plentiful in the
country that the farmers did not know
what to do with it. Who believes that
IF the above was a fact, why are al
feed stuffs high at this time of the
years Has anybody at any time known
hay or corn, and for that matter al
grains or feeds to have been as higf
as they are todayg When an article il
plentiful, does that make it high?
Agriculture is the backbone of :
nation. I will go you one better
Dairying is the backbone of agricul
ture. Give the dairyman fair deal
IF we don't get fair price per cal
for our milk we will "can" the cow
We have been keeping cows Ions
enough. From now on we expect thu
cow to keep us.
] zee by the Chicago Daily Tribune
of September goth, data on the cost O.
producing one hundred pounds of milk