Arizona republican., 1917-06-23
Dancer of 2 Milk Famine

A situation is arising in many parts of the coun- try and widely separated parts, which threatens high and almost prohibitIve price of milk Contrlbu- tory to it the high prices now being paid tor cattle and the increasing cost of feed. Though the prices of dairy products also increasing the pre- cpitating cause the dissatisfaction of many dairy men with the dairy business the high prices of cows The temptation sell at these prices is almost irresistible.
 We have found the following dispatch in the New York Times:
 WRIGHTSTOWN, N. J., June 16-Unless the state or federal government intervenes to check the sale of mich cows beef. New York. Philadelphia. and New Jersey may have to pay 70 cents a quart for milk within year. according to dairymen.
 This is the consensus also among many of the biggest farmers in the New Jersey dairy belt Of which Wrightstown is the center The foundation for their prediction confirmed by the records of public sale of livestock in Burlington county Tn the last month in which 80 per cent of the milch cows sold have been bought for beef. In dozens of instances butchers have outbid farmers who wanted the COWS for dairy
 It takes at least three years for a to become a milk producer and many farmers selling their herds having become dissatisfied with the dairy business and it's small and uncertain profits, and will raise that it will be years before herds depleted this year be restored. even under government supervision.
 The New Jersey agricultural authorities in vestigatng and have discovered'that is the farmer who keeps records of dairy costs and profits who is selling It is asserted by state experts that the average dairyman is selling milk loss. The summer grazing will help to reduce the cost for months, but the statement is made that by mid the farmer must get cents quart, which means 12 to 15 cents quart in the cities
 When the farmers the 5,000-acre tract taken by the government for it's army camp Wrights town begin to move out next week about 800 milch COWS will be forced upon the market The butchers bidding for these animals before they are offered for sale, and reported to have engaged nearly 1OO
 From cities supplied from Jersey dairies the sit uation is serious because the government will fresh milk for the 35,000 to be camped Wrghtstown.
 Though the dairy business is of the greatest and profitable in this valley and though prices for milk products are higher than they before, and though feed conditions better than in many other parts the country. told that dairymen, yielding the temptation of high prices of cattle selling milch The price of cows Thursday at Kansas City s11 and at Chicago s11-7O The price of s1OO for to many is irresistible.
 Those who yield are making serous mistake for any depletion of the dairy herds will hard fill and will be In these columns it long ago stated authority that the Germans in spite of their great need have cattle than at the beginning of the war that they have saught cred in the last three years female cattle sheep swine
 The prices of milk. butterfat and all dairy prod ucts will adjust themselves to the cost of production and the dairy business will remain of the profitable if properly conducted. Those who drop out of it will have great difficulty in ing it. It has been called in this valley the mortgage liter Many man here has been raised by it out of debt to affuence. mortgage litter" is good thing to throw away, because there other mortgage to lift It is good thing to keep around as an instrument for the accumulation of clear wealth.