Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-30
milk PRICES ADVANCED
| CENT PER QUART
Thirteen and Fourteen Cents to Be
Charged Beginning To-.
Morrow.
NO CHANGE IN PINT SIZES
Increasing Cost Of Labor and Feed
Given as Reason for Advance.
Producers Will Get 80 Cents for
Every Gallon.

Advance of cent per quart in tho
retail price Of milk in quart bottles
was announced last night by both Of
the milk distributing companies operat-
Ing In Richmond. making the price Of
Grade milk 10 cents and Grade A
milk II cents. The price Of milk in
pint bottles will remain as fixed on
September /. cents per pint for Grade
milk. and cents per pint for tho
Grade A milk.
It was stated last night that this
brings the price OF milk up to tho re-
tail price in Washington. Baltimore
aud other cltle, where tho delivery
problems are essentially the same as in
Richmond. Abnormal labor conditions
necessitating Increased pay OF drivers
and greatly increased cost OF feed for
horses are givh as reasons for tho in
crease. The lGal distributors are pay
Ing the milk poducers furnishing milk
TO this market 80 cents per gallon. as
against 26 anu 28 cents last spring.
Both producers and distributors dis
claim any inuntion OF trying to hold
up milk consumers. They have faced
abnormal conditions for many months,
and only by tie closest cooperation and
by sacrihcint largo part OF their
profit have hey been able to supply
milk at the pices which have prevailed
FARMERS lind LABOR
BSrH SCARCE AND HIGH
Farmers pt only find tho greatest
difficulty INJECTING labor for milking
and caring or cows. but find the price
OF feed dabling. At the prevailing
prices OF kef cattle. It ia stated, It
would pay many OF the milk producers
TO convertihe herds into beef and go
out OF buiness until the close Of the
war. HoIever. all OF the large dairy
farms arecndeavoring to carry on their
work of Implying this market, and in
this the. feel that they have the CO.
operatio, both of the two distributing
da!ries lRichmond and OF the Richmond
Health Department., which maintains a
systemf inspection Of dairy farms and
Of the handling Of mSlk from producer
TO conumer.
Thelast increase in the retail price
OF NIX was made on September /, and
the announcement was made at that
time that the prices would be con-
tinud Tor one month, with a probable
rcaeustment on or about October l..
No .acrease was made September / on
mil In quart bottles. but for pint
sizs there was an increase or read
juHnent OF rates which made tho
Grde milk cents and Grade A 8
Gets. with milk in quarts selling at
l2and l3 cents, respectively.
WsT OF MILK SOLD HERE
IS OF GRADE II KIND
With this increase in pint sizes, tho
buk OF the business which had here
toore been In pnts was transferred to
tn quart size. matter which the
present. adjustment Is expected to cor
ret. lt Is explained that many of the
isms OF delivery cost and bookkeep-
is are the same for pints as for
narts. 80 that IL Is not reasonable to
Hpect two separate deliveries of pint
bottles. with two charges on the books,
bottle.
The great bulk OF the milk sold In
Richmond Is what Is known as Grade
milk. This is Pasteurized milk of
certain standard Of purity set by tho
local Health Department, and is used
by more than nine-tenths OF the milk
consumers OF the city. Grade a milk
is from specially selected, tuberculin-
tested cows, an6 as an extra fancy
grade is sometimes preferred for a
table milk. and Us frequently ordered
by physicians for the use of delicate
babies and invalids. where every pre-
caution is to be taken.
In connection with the announcement
last night Of October prices for retail
consumers, II was stated that the
wholesale price to restaurants for
Grade B milk would be ~ cents per
quart In bottles.
TRYING TO KEER PRICES
AS low AS POSSIBLE
we are keeping the price just as
low as we can" srd an official Of ono
OF the distributing companies last
night. I'VE realizs the burden Of high
prices.iand also tht every cent added