New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-09
Mayor Wants City
To Build Plant to
Pasteurize MIk
Buy Direct From Farmer
and Save Middlemen'.
Profits
Dairymen Subpenaed
Will Go Before Grand inn.
To-day in Investigation In.
der Antitrust Law
Dairymen Subpenaed

A municipal pasteurizatien pl.,.
where the city could prepare all q,
milk for its institutions, was props..,
yesterday by Mayor Mitchell macs
munication TO the Mayors Comml.,..
on Milk, now investigating III. h,.
prices Of that product. Tn. Nav,
went further and asked the eomui.,..
to consider the establishment Of ,ut.
q plant for handling all the milk Va,
By the community az a measure to ty.,
of the ever increasing cost Of milk
This was but one Of the dey.lopn.,.
Of busy day in New York Cityi .,
forts TO solve the milk problem. p.
fessor George F. Warren, Of the Sta,
Agricultural College, Cornell Uniyc.
sity, testifying before the Mayor, yis
Committee, gave a solemn warning In
the decrease in the rural population t,,
TO low prices paid to farmers for tie,
product might cause famine in y,
United States in another year IL crcv
turned out poorly.
DR.. Charles z. North. chairman NJ
the Mayors committee, intrusted vel
making an impartial inquiry into pr.
duction costs, admitted that for the lu
three months he had been employed u
Borden's Condensed Milk Company, h
biggest distributing agency in the ee
as sanitation expert at one Of the 20.
pany's dairy stations. DR.. North a.
the Dairymen's League, the orga.la
ton of farmers, knew all about tti)
and that his employment did not bal
his judgment in the present lnqG:ry
Farmers Subp9naed
District Attorney Swami annourcxl
that he had collected sufficient tia,
against the Dairymen's League. Accuse,
Of violating the ,Donnelly anti-trus, i,I
to warrant taking the case before u;
grand jury to-day. Seven farneu|
from Greene County and three fr,I
Delaware County were brought 70 ri
city yesterday on subpCenas, and "
appear before the grand jury to-day
The rumor Of DR.. North's connectg
with the Borden company had bee
buzzing all day around the assem- |
hall in the Health Department Buis
/ ing where the hearing is being be-: |
but it was not till the session was
journed that he could be questioned
at is true that am employed By Z,
Borden company" said DR.. North, vie
asked about the report. "But sm ~
on the Borden payroll. was re.ase
as an expert at the Oxford, n. Y. p.r,t
of the company to experiment with N (
ducing the bacteria count in Grsd.
milk, and to endeavor TO get farnr
TO produce cleaner milk. by worn II J
the Borden company will benefit 4, |
farmers as much as the dealer and d, /
consumer, as ! have been endeaven,i
10 get the Borden company TO pay IL (
/ farmers a premium on cleaner milk
Consulted Dairymen
~ consulted the officers Of the Oar.
mems League before | undertook n I
! work for the Borden people, and VI !
Cooper has asked me TO try the ar,
experiments in bacteria reduction ~
! the farmers cooperative creamery II
Little Falls"
/ DR.. North is the second man on ri
Mayors committee on milk to be e..
cised for having relations with 2
Borden company while acting or 2,
committee. President Cooper, Of 81
Dairymen's League, protested sri,s
( Bailey B. Burrit., another member "
is director of the Society for lnrn
ing the Condition OF the Poor. III
: society is the beneficiary OF the Bore
I Company, from which IL draws trssm
quarts OF milk daily.
Mayor Mitcheps communicates y
the committee recommending the ere
/ ton OF a municipal pasteurizing pr'l
was accompanied by statement nv
Health Commissioner Haven Emer:
pointing out that the city is the la's''
individual milk buyer OF the q,
munity. For the year ending June
the city bought 5,934,3s7 quart,
milk at total cost of SiOe,OIlA
+ 1880 quarts day, at an average 9,
of 6.625 cents per quart. The pres
contract price from October | 70
cember 81 is 90 cents to ISIS e'l
per quart.
Farmers To Sell to City
Mayor Mitchell pointed out in hsn
ter that the Legislature has a.
enacted laws which make K po"''
for TIE city TO erect a pasteunns
plant, and that by so doing me q
can purchase milk direct from the W
ducers or their representatives, e's
away with all middlemen's proh.a
I'm view of the recent sharp riH
milk and the threat Of further pr
= increase, | request your committee
study and report also upon me I'll
sible advantages Of the establls,n,
by the city OF pssteurizstion and |"
/ tribution for the community
whole" Mayor Mitchell wrote. III
duty Of considering this acton
been placed squarely upon US ~
Legislature: II the present unc
trolled commercial system OF HAND
milk causes waste in the metnoa
delivery or opens the door TO exea
charges, due to private control
must find means whereby the o,l.i .
thus unnecessarily and unjustly pa
upon the community is removes
tween excessive profits ard tn, y"
and health of children there can ~"
one choice"