The sun., 1919-01-15
OUTSIDE REGIONS
SECURED FOR MILK
Sections Of Eight States Sup
plying Half Of New
York City.
FARMERS SELLING cows
Prefer Slaughter Prices to Re-
turns From Sale Of
Products.

Yesterdays receipts c; milk amounted
10 1.427.0i7. quarts. according 70 re
ports compiled by the Der artment oil
Health. This represented n falling on
OF 24.+75 quarts from the day before
However. II was tho third biggest daily
supply since the Milk Conference Board
distributors and the Da!rymen's Leasu.
stopped doing business with each othe<
on January /.
DR.. Royal &. Copeland, Health Com
missioner, said that one-half tho presen,
daily supply is coming from eight State.
In regions outside those controlled by
the farmers organization and from
Canada. He gave assurances that the
people OF the city are not suffering from
tho milk shortage Tho city Is shy IN
the ne!ghborhood OF 100000 quarts fol
It's daily purposes.
Many complaints are being made BY
consumers that instead Of being served
with a bottled quart by some OF the
milk dealers they are receiving either
bottled pint or two bottled pints
Grade r bottled Is rs cents a qua RI
and bottled pint IL 10 cents. BY serv.
ing two bottled ptnts instead OF n bot
tied quart the return to the dealer 1,
~ SOHNo . QudIL, lUStedu Oh 10 cents.
Sees Settlement To-day.
Gov. Smiths Milk Commission had
another session at the once of Rober,
E. Bowling. chairman. at 1865 Broad
again at I O'Clock this afternoon and
Mr.. Dowling's hopes are that some
thing may happen"
Il have q feeling that something is
going to be closed" She chairman said
at the close OF the session. IT know
nothing about Il except that have the
feeling. had expected to close UT
the thing to-day one way or the other
and 80 stated. But they said they
thought there was possibility OF a
solution to be arrived at. but that they
would be obliged to report to their re.
srective bodies and would report to me
Tomorrow whether they could fix a
prtce for the next three months. Thit
was in answer to my request.
THE questions discussed to-day were
aa to price and in Ngard to surplus
milk. There was q difference OF opin.
ion as to what surplus means"
Mr.. Bowling said that the Dairymen's
League has demanded 1884 per 100
rounds Of per cent. milk for February
and es.23 for March milk. but thess
prices. the farmers insist. are aseo.
c.ated with the much discussed Sl.o1
price for January.
Tho farmerS February price means a
reduction Of cent per quart below theii
January asked price. which the dis
tributers refuse to give, and the March
price 10 about half a cent below the
February price.
The distributors, who reduced the price
to tho consumer from II to l6 cent,
per quart for grade B milk after Of
fering the farmers a cut Of cent Del
quart for January. are now planning &c
continue the is cent price to the con-
sumner during February and to reduce
the price TO 1874 cents in March
Both the producers and distributors
representatives on tho commission SAY
that Mr.. Bowling. the lone Representative
OF the consumers, has been verv patien
and forbearlng aimee he tackled tn,
herculean task Of trying to make two
parallel lines meet.
Milk Cows Being Slaughtered.
Partisans in the respective campo
which have been losing many thousand!
Of dollars In an effort to make the other
side hoist the white nag Of surrende,
without any success whatever thus far
are fearful that even though the rival.
do effect some settlement this afternoon
nothing constructive will have been &c.
complished that will insure stable condi,
tons between producers and distributor.
in the future.
The Dairymen's League reported yes
terday that during the first twelve days
OF January $500 dairy cows were
shipped TO slaughter houses from Orange
county alone. What Is happening ir
Orange county. league officers say, Il
happening else where. and all because the
farmer is dissatisfied and is quitting pro-
ducing milk to devote his energies &c
other lines OF farming.
Belmont, n. Y. farmers. the league
also announced. are getting $3.15 fol
milk made into cheese. as against SO. 6(
per 100 pounds offered by the Milk Con
ference Board.
inside Of sixty days we can double
the supply without touching norma
sources" I. Elkin Nathane. secretary OF
the Milk Conference Board. said yester-
day. This Is possible because OF the
natural surplus OF milk now coming into
tho market all over the United States.
THE average price received by thu
New York producers who served the New
York market In the year 1918 was ia
cents per quart. No amount OF jugglinl
will conceal the real facts. which are
that New York is and has been for a Ions
period the highest priced and best paid
market to which the farmer can brinl
his milk
r. D. Cooper, president OF the Dairy.
mems League. says the United States
Crop Report shows that the average
price tho New York producer received
for the FIRST eleven months of 1918 was