St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1918-10-18
DAIRY PROBLEMS
ARE COMPLEX
Consumers Are COunseIled Not
To Decrease Use OF Milk Nor
Complain OF Prices.

| OUllUialh W IOCos
Unless means are quickly found L
remedy conditions existing In the dairl
Industry as wdl as in other classel
Of livestock serious menace TO botl
industries os-which are allied-may b.
forecast"
This is the statement of Assistant
Federal Food Administrator w. X
Newell
with the dairymen selling theii
businesses as fast as they are able "a
find purchasers. said Mr. Newell
with an increasing volume Of sales Of
heavy calves. both male and female
aud with already worlds shortage
Of beef the outlook for future supplies
Is not as rosy as one 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 aud
we'll satisfied with their lot
Taking only the retail price as a
basis--that which most vitality affects
the consumer price Of milk today
| in Portland ia i5C per quart
Even with normal prices milk n
generally sold retail at 10 cents a
quart here. therefore the advance iB
not nearly as marked aS in many
other lines OF foodstuffs
"Thu dairymnn today iB 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 "A very considerable advance
over the normal for his bran aud
shorts
"Tho cost OF milk cans and other
dairy utontila In practically double the
normal The cost OF bottles has scared
90 such heights as 10 make one dizzy
10 think ~ II The cost of producing
milk today IL 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 aud cream per
COW In far below the normal
Laws enacted during the last few
years force the dairyman 10 add 10 his
costs as a matter OF cleanliness, The
public In no longer willing To tolerate
the quality OF milk generally marketed
few years ago All OF this costs
money aud the dairyman has been
paying II while the fun charges have
not been passed back 10 the consumer.
n has oftimoa been said that a man
very seldom quits business where
liberal profits are available The fact
that 50 many dairymen are quitting
that thoy are not making adequate
that they are not making adequate
profits u any az all
The killing Of dairy calves during
the present season has broken all
records simply because the country
producer could not afford 60 feed them
To maturity Suggestion has been
made In some quarters that the kill
Ing OF female calves be- prohibited by
.aw This would indeed solve the prob.
lem providing some means were found
To feed and keep the animals,
Dairy experts have Tor years
preached the gospel OF getting rid OF
the star hoardrr the COW that does
not pay her expense. That Is the
situation just now Few are paying
their board aud there Is no improve
ment of the situation In prospect
similar conditions may be spoken !
N In regard To the future OF the beef |
supply, Owing 10 the shortage aud eX
lreme price of feed more lightweight |
aud unfinished cattle have been |
marketed Ia the stockyards OF tho |
country during the last two seasons
han ever before known, The country |
cannot afford to feed It's cattle even al /
he present price OF beef aud the
Journey 10 market is therefore a neces-
'ity In fact the government has re-
'ently requested that the public pur-
'hase beef from light weight animals
because the stock must be marketed
rhis means that many thousands OF
that are today coming TO
market weighing around coo To 1 200
pounds would have showed a weight
Il al least third more II allowed TO
atten properly This means an
'normous loss in the meat supply for
he future a loss that the country
an IN afford TO contemplate"