The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-08-16
CHEAP MILK WILL
Be. DEARER; DEAR
. MILK Be CHEAPER
,Aa Milk Is Going To Be Fifteen
Cents a Quart and Only One
Grade Is To Be Sold
PRESENT SYSTEM IS =
HELD TO BE ILLEGAL
Territorial Officials Agreed To
/ Wink At Butter Fat Reduction
But WaySon Couldn't Wink

"Chcap" milk is going to be doarer,
"dear' milk is going to be cheaper
and all milk is going to be ffteou cents
a quart. The present system of hav-
ing two grades Of milk one with butter
fat contents reduced to three percent
and the other with three point six per
cent butter fats, is to be discontinued.
The readjustment is to go into effect
soon, probably within few days.
,, 81 think we will have to let them
eharge more for milk said Food Ad.
ministrator Child yesterday, in refer
| ring to the coming change. Milk,
like every other commodity, must be
sold at profit, and there has not been
profit to the producers supplying the
Dairymen s Association at the prices
now charged, that is fourteen cents for
the cheap grade and sixteen cents for
| the higher grade.
| Anyhow, the present system Is not
| going to be allowed to continue. The
recent custom of the dairymen in sell
| ing milk labelled "Reduced to three
percent butter fats is illegal, accord
1 Ing to city ordinance. According to the
4 law it must be labelled "Partially,
skinned milk but the dealers know
Ithat if it is so labelled there would be
| o row from mauka to makai and from
liMaunalua to Moanalua. Hence the de,
cisiOn to sell only one grade of milk
hereafter at the split figure of fifteen
4 cents. "
Winked At Violation
4 When the dairymen recently began
putting three percent butter fat mill
on the market they ran afoul of the
federal pure food inspector. They
either had to say on the bottle that
| the butter fat contents had been re
duced or hop into the defendant stand
in the federal court. Thus the labelled
caps appeared all of a sudden, much
to the bewilderment of many a house
wife. But this label, put on to pleas
the federal pure food man, ADVERTISED
the contents of the bottles as contrary
% the city milk law and there wer'
numerous little conferences at which thu
j territorial officials agreed to wink q
1.-THE violation on the understanding tina
!. the whole thing was more or less ex
perimental 80. ,n
But DR.. James T. Wayson, the nev
territorial sanitarian, hasn't yet learn
ed to wink. When his attention wa
brought to the matter he delivered
Drompt ultimatum that "redueed mill
was t'skimmed" milk and had TO be 81
labelled, even if the skimming was onl.
partial.
SO the Grade B milk and the Grad
A milk are going to disappear from tn
trade and Just ordinary milk is goln
70 replace them both, at fifteen cent
asQuart.
Child Favors Raise
Mr.. Child points out that the figure
of the Dairvmen s Association shO'
that milk cannot be sold here at a fai
profit at less than This price, and every
one knows that figures "cannot lie.
1t is understood that the raise IN Prle
As the new price is a raise-will &
to the milk producers, the dalryme
who supply the association,
More than ninety percent of the mil
sold in Honolulu since the two grade
we're put on the market has been tn
"reducedn kind, 50 while some six q
: seven percent of the milk will be sol
at cent less per quart, ninety -thro
or ninety four percent will be bOoste
n cent.
There seems to be something radica
; " wrong in the management OF tn
; Dairvmen s Assoc citation, according
I the figures in Mr. Child's office. Ft
I instance, cream appears to be sold at
loss, That is, the milk of the aVerae
consumer in Honolulu had part of II
c cream taken out and then the crea
r was marketed without a profit. Jul
3 why the ones who can afford crea
u should thus benefit at the expense
u the ones able only to buy second graz
milk seems paradOxical.
, And there are other things in al
around the headquarters of the Dair
J. mems Association that require equ
n explanation. The special milk comm
n tee of the territorial food cOmmissit
g will probably do some more delving f
" the facts.
e In the meanwhile, milk will be hfte'
% cents a quart.