The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-10-26
Cattle Feed Lower
But Morning Quart
Keeps Going Up
And When They Talk About Wage
Raise, Some Who Know Say
That Have Not Gone Up IN
Past Year, SO They'd Better
Guess Again ri. ,....

Heeu ~ gong down, but mix Will
still advance two cents quart on No.
vember ]. Perhaps If the COWS could
be fed for nothing there would still
be a reason to advance the price Of
a necessity which the public could not
do without, The publie's vital need
perhaps is the very reason. "All the
traffic will bearn is motto which
never seems to stale. "a
Cattle feed, with the sole exception
Of bran, is from a dollar and half
to two dollars lower than on .Septem.
Der ], when feed was as high as II was
at the time Of highest prices several
months ago. At that time milk was
raised one cent quart on account Of
the high price Of cattle feed.
Feed has since declined and then
risen again in price, until it stood as
high in September as at any time in,
the last year. The past month has
seen q lowering of feed prices, but the
dairymen's association has not made
any announcement that the advance in
the price of milk, which they claimed
was necessary on account of the high
cost OF feed, will be postponed. And
the raise this time is two cents.
Another reason given for the adj
vance was higher wages paid TO labor.
A responsible citizen who is familiar
with conditions at the Mokuleia dairy
states that in his knowledge the work
ers there are being paid the same wages
as they were a year ago. This is one
Of the diaries belonging TO Charles
Bellina, a member Of the dairymen Is
association. '.' .'-.
Wages Not Awaiting
Wages for dairy hands have not
gone higher, A. l.. Castle said yester.
day, as he was aware from personal
knowledge that the workers were get
ting the same compensation as they
we're year or more ago. If there are
a few cases in which wages have been
raised, which is doubtful, there are
not enough of them to cost every house
holder in Honolulu two cents more for
his quart of milk every morning. There
is large amount of revenue in two
added cents for every quart of milk
sold in Honolulu daily. ..
It is not of much use, to quote main
land advances as warrant for the in.
creased charges in Honolulu. There
are no milk condenseries here to take
any surplus and help keep prices up.
One Of the causes given on the main !
land for the present price Of milk is
that the eondenseries are willing 10
pay more than they have been doing, |
v-kt ..l- - -
10 the consumer Of fresh milk, who has
to pay more than the condensed milk
plants are willing to do in order to
get his daily supply. ... " n
No such reason can exist here, where ,
there are no condensing plants to raise
the rates. 1t may be true that milk
bottles cost more. Why not try out |
some of the paper containers which |
have proved O success on the mainland, |
besides being more sanitary and cheap
err Reducing the standard Of the milk /
is hardly TO be recommended as a mean.
ing of lowering prices. In its present
state the milk seems a denatured prod
uct compared to the real old down on !
the farm stuff with cream inches thick |
on top. If it were any lower in fat
content it would not have enough /
food value to make it a fit food for
growing children.
Feed Prices Yesterday ,
The quotations shown below are the
actual prices of cattle feed in Homo
lulu yesterday morning as given by two
local firms, the California Feed Com
pany and the Union Feed Company.
Corn which is not shown on the lists,
has also declined in price in the last
month.