Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-05-25
Milk Production
Threatened
To the Congress of the United STATES:

To the Congress of the United States:
THE several prohibitory amendments which your honorable
body is considering as war measures are of vital interest
not only to dairymen, farmers, cattle raisers and feed men, but
the general public as we'll Leaving aside the arguments "a
vanced by prohibitionists who are demanding laws to prohibit
the use of cereals and other food products that enter into the
manufacture of alcoholic beverages, there is another side to the
question the importance of which is not generally known.
With the brewing industry closed down by a prohibitory
law the use of dried brewers grains and malt sprouts by the
farmers and dairymen would be discontinued and these COM
modites, rich in protein and absolutely essential to the stimu-
1ation and economic production of milk, would be eliminated
entirely from the market. These brewers grains enter largely
into the formation of milk and butter, two commodities that
will be found upon the table of almost every home in this coun-
try. Now the quality of milk and butter which every farmer
desires to keep up to the highest standard would materially
suffer through the elimination of the use of these grains whose
value for cattle food purposes is universally acclaimed both in
the United States and Europe.
Thousands of head Of cattle in the vicinity of large cities
throughout the country, such locations being SO situated that
pasture and raising of feed is impossible, are fed almost entire
ly on brewers grains. The greater proportion of these cattle
without any questioning would be led to the slaughter house
and disposed of as beef and the cattle could not be replaced in
a period of less than three years. This would make the milk
situation extremely serious and increase the cost of milk far
beyond the buying power OF the poor.
Just now we are witnessing a movement throughout the
country for BETTER BABIES. Good milk is an indspen-
sable necessity of every babys life, of every nursing mother,
of every home, of every hospital in this country. Our soldiers
in the field likewise will need pure milk. And the cost of pro-
ducfon must be kept down. To eliminate brewers grains for
mich cattle food will unquestionably lessen milk production 20
per cent-will unquestionably increase the cost of production
to such an extent that the purchase price of a quart of milk now
fixed at eleven cents per quart will unquestonably force the
price to twenty-five or thirty cents per quart in all great centers
of population where a pure milk supply is most required
If the war lasts for a period of three years, as has been
prophesied, the necessity for the most careful and well consid-
cred legislation by the Congress, avoiding, wherever possible,
unnecessary suferings and sacrifices on the part of the people,
is vitality apparent.
This is a statement of our case, gentlemen of the Congress.
Therefore, we pray that it will be accepted as a reasonable and
~iustifable opposition towards a movement that threatens, if
made effective, to strike not only at the interests of dairymen,
farmers, cattle raisers and feed men, but of the entire Ameri-
can people.
FARMERS FEED COMPANY,
NEW YORK.
GUSTAVE HAFER,
President.
Factories:
Foot of East 10Th ST,
New York City.
Johnson Ave. and Bogef ST.,
Brooklyn, ~
Chapel s.. and Passaic Ave.
Newark, MI
Pratt and Clinton SIS,
Buffalo, N. y
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