The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-17
Springfield Milk Concern to
Put In Cream Separator
at Once
CONFERENCE HERE
LAST EVENING
Inability. Of Phillips Concern to Dis
pose Of Entire Supply from This Sec
ton Caused Unsatisfactory Condi-
tion Temporarily.

Representatives of the A III. Phillips
Co. of Springfield, Mass, the Hawkins
automobile truck line, the Guilford cream
cry, and the Windham county producers
marketing committee met in the Farm
Bureau Office last evening to 60 over tho
milk situation arising out of surplus in
the Springfield market, shipments having
been moved unsatisfactory during the
past five or six days.
With an object of bettering the condi-
tlons County President F. L. Parmelee of
Putney, who represents the New Eng
land Milk Producers association for
Wlndham county, called the different
parties together, and the matter was dis
cussed thoroughly
Because the arrival of more milk from
the start than the dealers had planned
Tor, amounting to nearly 1000 quarts, the
Philips concern was unable to handle it
all, and because the Phillips concern did
not take the precaution to equip itself
with by-product machinery a sufficient
quantity of old and understandable milk
was put on the market to demoralize
sales. This caused setback in the move
ment of milk from the producing terri
| tory to Springfield and in the interim use
was made Of the Guilford creamery to
turn the product into butter, which was
salable to the Phillips's stores.
1t was decided at the meeting to renew
shipments of the surplus milk, beginning
today, and the Phillips concern has agreed
to install a separator at once so that the
proportion of the product not salable a.
whole milk can be put upon the market
as sweet cream and skim milk, for which
there Is known to be considerable sale.
| A factor in the conference was the pos
sibility of considerable portion of the
milk being transferred back to the Whit
ing concern, through which it previously
was sold in Boston No large movement
OF this sort is looked for, however, since
any producers who have become disgrun-
tied at the slow development of satisfac-
tory marketing conditions under the
Springfield scheme cannot be certain that
shipments to Boston would be permanent.
1t is understood that the milk now bought
by the Whiting company in this county
is moving in a box car, Without ice or
caretaker, and that unless the full amount
should begin to go again to Boston sat
isfactory transportation conditions would
not be available from the railroad.
| Producers withdrawing from the SEring-
field project would, of course, be rein
stated only after a considerable interim.
and it is thought that no great change in
the movement of milk from farmers to-
ward Boston will occur until shippers are
certain that the Boston shipments are
again permanent.
| The local marketing committee looks for
permanent solution of the problem Of
supplying the market with only the
amount of milk which is saIable from day
to day by the construction at some point
in the county of country plant, where
such part of the supply as is not wanted
IN Springfield can be tilted in some 9th
or way. 1t is understood that plans IRE
under consideration. fer plant at Pat
1ey. bat no definite infornation is avail
able as to the extent Of maturity of this
sehe'ne