The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-11-01
PRICE Of MILK AGAIN ADVANCES.
TOBE SEVEN AND FOURTEEN CENTS
rR1sTATE PRODUCERS ASSoCIA-
TON YESTERDAY ADOPTS
INCREASE
Dealers Will Meet Soon to Take Action
Declare higher Prices Arc I'M
peratiye-Efloctive NOV. S.

The price of milk goes up again.
At n meeting OF tho Trl-State MIX
Producers. association. held at the Mar
ket Auditorium yesterday afternoon. Il
resolution was adopted increasing the
: price Of milk 10 the distributor five
cents gallon. or from % cents TO 80
cents for per cent milk
The increased price becomes effective
; November 5. IT WAS proposed 10 have 1t
effective November !. today. but at tho
request OF loca! distributors. the new
prce scale was lucid off live days.
Tho Tri-State Milk Producers asso-
citation Is composed OF practically all
the dairymcn and farmers in northern
! West Virginia. eastern Ohio and west
crn Pennsylvania, VINO furnish milk nc;
only for the, entire Wheeling district
but to Il certain extent, supply the Tits
burgh market.
Consumer Will Pay, However.
However. il will very likely b. the
consumer who will pay the increase
Prominent local distributors. when in
tcrriewed last right. said ii would be
absolutely necessary to raise the price
to the consumer 10 meet the new In
crease demanded by the producer.
HIS VIC So 'Iiu lllSLS az wv
! months al tile hands Of the producers.
us on September !. the assoc alton ILL.,
creased the price from 20 cents TO IS
cents u gallon.
THE distributors stood that Increase
without advancing the price 10 the con-
sumner. even in spite Of the advance!
costs and narrow profits" said q well
known local, milk dealer last night
with this second increase. however II
will be Impossible 10 continue In busi-
ness without our also raising tho
prices"
and IA Cents New Prices.
It was intiIn.tcd that the new prices
will be- seven and fourteen cents u pint
and quart respectively. Present prices
are sin cents q pint and twelve cents
quart.
1t is understood meeting OF the
Ohio Valley Milk Dealers association
Will be held within day or two 10
, take action on the demand by the pro-
ducvrs and proposed increase 10 the
consumers.
According to one local dealer. menu
bcrs OF the producers association de-
clare they will snip their milk TO i!tts-
burgh or other cities II the demand IL
not met. The lriccs which they ask
nave DeGn prev ding ia L iSkSpdl 3 u AO'
somo time.
Production Costs Advance.
Tho dealers admit that the producers
are justihcd in asking for an increase.
due to the advanced cost OF feeds and
other costs entering into the production
OF milk. Feed prices arc soaring. labor
costs are higher than ever before, and
at times 1t is almost Impossible TO OBJ
tain help. Besides. the high prices be-
ing paid for beef cattlo are causing.
many farmers 20 sell their herds TO tho
butchers. 1t Is said.
Present conditions have forced many
producers as we'll ns distributors GU;
OF the milk busIncs. The distributors
claim that they are operating on the
smallest possible profit. Cost OF bot
ties has increased 20 pc cent In the
past year, one ,lrc Jared i2st night.
The producers also demand IN in
crease in the price OF sweet cream.
1t IL said that tic average daily con-
sumption Of mix in Wheeling is be-
tween 5000 and 5000 gallons.