The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1918-10-19
DAIRY PROBLEMS
ARE COMPLEX
Consumers Are Counselled Not
To Decrease Use of Milk Nor
Complain Of Prices.

Unless means are quickly found to
remedy conditions existing in the dairy
industry as well as in other classes
OF livestock, serious menace to both
ndustries-which are a!lied-may be
forecast"
This Is the statement OF Assistant
Federal Food Administrator, w. X.
Newell.
with the dairymen selling their
businesses as fast as they are able to
find purchasers. said Mr.. Newell.
with an increas! ig volume OF sales OF
heavy calves, both male ana female.
and with already a worlds shortage
of beef, the outlook for future supplies
is not as rosy as enc might wish.
1T has been charged in some
quarters that the price OF milk and
other products Of the dairy have been
elevated TO such an extent at all
Pacific northwest points that the dairy
interests should be making a profit and
well satisfied with their lot.
Taking only the retail price as
basls--that which most vitally affects
the con3umer--the price Of milk today
In Portland is l5c per quart
Even with normal prices milk Is
generally soil retail at 10 cents a
quart here. therefore the advance is
not nearly as marked as in many
other lines OF focdstuffs.
"The dairyman today is paying more
than double the wages OF normal years
for his hired help. lie is paying more
than double for his requirements OF
hay and very considerable advance
over the normal for his bran and
shorts.
"The cost OF milk cans and other
dairy utentils is practically double the
normal. The cost Of bottles has scared
to such heights as to make one dizzy
to think OF II. The cost OF producing
milk today is therefore more than
double that of normal periods even
without considering the fact that this
has been very abnormal season and
the production Of milk and cream per
COW Is far below the normal
Laws enacted during the last few
years force the dairyman TO add TO his
costs as a matter OF cleanliness. The
public is no longer willing TO tolerate
the quality OF milk generally marketed
few years ago. All of this costs
money and the dairyman has been
paying II while the full charges have
not been passed back TO the consumer.
1T has oftimes been said that man
very seldom quits a business where
liberal profits are available. The fact
that so many dairymen are quitting
that they are not making adequate
that they are not making adequate
profits-if any at all.
THE killing OF dairy calves during
the present season has broken all
records simply because the country
producer could not afford to feed them
to maturity. Suggestion has been
made in some quarters that the kill
ing OF female calves be prohibited by
law. This would indeed solve the prob
lem providing some means were found
To feed and keep the animals
Dairy experts have for years
preached the gospel of getting rid of
the star boarder'-the cow that does
not pay her expense. That Is the
situation just now. Few are paying
their board and there Is no improve
ment of the situation in prospect.
similar conditions may be spoken
of in regard to the future of the beef
supply. Owing 10 the shortage and ex-
treine price OF feed more lightweight
and unfinished cattle have been
marketed in the stockyards Of the
country during the last two seasons
than ever before known. The country
cannot afford to feed its cattle even at
the present price Of beef and the
journey to market is therefore recos-
gity In fact the government has re.
Gently requested that the public pur-
chase beef from lght weight animals
5oolrsa tho stocE must DO marketed,
THIS mcans lha. iaa2. .Aogsande OF