The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-03
Meriden Dairyman Says To-
peka Will Be BOycOtted.
Farmers Claim City Won't Pay
Enough for Their Milk.
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS
j. L. MOngOld Says Cows Are
Sold Out of County.
Dealers Here Say There Is
Enough Milk for Supply.

That Topeka will soon be face to
face with milk famine and that
farmers generally will put a boycott
on Topeka markets were the yelled
threats made by ]. L. Mongold, of
Meriden, in a letter written to Miss
Annetta Nicon, head of the city milk
inspection department, in answer to a
communication sent out by her noti-
flying him that he would have to sub
NIT his cows to a tubercular test II
he intended to sell milk in the city.
Il am out of the milk business SO
far as Topeka is concerned" Mongold
wrote Miss Nicoll, "as it is the poorest
market of any first class city in the
United States. The trouble with To-
peka is she wants certified milk at
wholesale prices"
Nicon that the farmers are getting
next" and predicts a milk famine
here He intimates that the buyers
here are not paying the prices paid at
other places and asserts that Kansas
City is going out as far as 100 miles
and is paying the price.
Many Farmers Quitting.
Many farmers are going out of the
milk business, the Meriden man as
serts and once they sell their cows
and cut off Topeka's supply the city
will either have to go to raising back
yard goats or depend upon canned
cow juice. Once the farmers quit, he
says, it will take a long, long time
to get them back in the business.
Altho he blames Topeka buyers,
the principal reason Mangold is get
ting out of the local market seems to
be the high cost of feed. What man
ufactufer," he asks, would continue
his product did not cover the cost of
the raw materialF"
That good many milk producers
in the county have partially gone out
of business on account of the high
cost of feed, is admitted by the local
dealers, and they say others who are
keeping their cows are merely rough
ing" them and are not attempting to
force maximum production this
winter. However, the statement of
the local dealers does not bear out
the Meriden mans assertion that To-
peka is on the verge of a tactical
products famine or that prices here
are below those paid in other cities
Pay Kansas City Prices.
L. r. Marley. of the Topeka Pure
Milk Co., said today that his company
is getting all the cream it can use, and
that its butter output for November
was $4,000 pounds greater than the
output for the corresponding month
of last year.
And we are paying the highest
price for milk we ever have paid"
Manley added. I'VE are now paying
about SO hundred pounds for whole
sweet milk. This is the present Kan
sas City price, and it is about so cents
a hundred pounds more than we paid
last year.
ut is true some of the milk pro-
ducers are going out of business, :"
Manley continued, "but apparently
there is enough milk to meet all local
demands and then some. A great
many producers say they find it hard
to make profit with the present high
price of feed, but many are meeting
this by not trying to force their COWS
to maximum production and by
feeding less expensive foods"
Miss Nicoll. of the city milk inspec-
ton department, said that the city is
not interested in the price paid but
that it will insist upon knowing the
quality of all milk sold in the city
She explained that while every dairy
man is required to submit his cows to
a tubercular test, no producer is asked
to go to any expense or to add to the
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