The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-11-13
Over 1000 Quarts Being
Shipped Daily to
Springfield
EFFORTS MADE TO
SECURE MILK CAR
Local Law Firm Takes Matter Up with
Interstate Commerce Commission -
Producers Here Represented on
Springfield Marketing Committee.

More than 1900 quarts of milk is now
being shipped daily to Springfield. Mass.
from this section, or an increase of about
4Vo quarts over the shipments made a
month ago, when the change was made by
producers in this section who previously
had been shipping n.llk to Boston mar
ket.
Although numerous difficulties were
faced IN October because of the necessary
adjustments which always must come with
q change IN markets for so large olan-
tity of product, it now looks as if the
whole matter had become stabilized satis-
factorily. The a. H. Phillips concern.
the Springfield dealer, expresses the ex-
pectatlon that the time is near at hand
when 1t VIII be able to handle all of the
huld milk which producers in this coun-
ty desire to put upon the market, as the
recent considerable growth in population
III that city has been such that the milk
being shipped there from this valley is
being entirely absorbed and the sales OF
all dealers in Springfield have increased
throughout the autumn.
Under the influence of this increased de-
mand the marketing committee represent.
ing the producers III the immediate local
lty of Springfield has found unjustifed the
heretofore hostile attitude of farmers
about Springfield toward Vermont milk
producers, who We're seeking to get a
foothold IN the Springfield market In
/ tar-slghted attempt to forestaH future
! trouble the Springfield committee has in
ylted the Vermont producers to accept
representation on its committee This
will mean that local producers will elect
representatives who will act In conjunc-
ton with the Springfield committee in de-
termining policies of the market into
which the product from this section will
be shipped in the future
County President F. l. Parmelee of
, Putney, who represents the milk produc-
ers of this section, and County Agent w
| 7. Frost were in Springfield the first of
the week In conference with the market
/ ing committee representing the producers
| of that market.
I The Phillips concern has built up a re-
! tail trade sufficiently large to take care
of all the milk shipped from this district,
in the form of whole milk. The concern
installed 3,000-pound separator late in
/ October In the expectation that it would
/ be necessary to sell a portion of the pro-
duct as sweet cream, the skim milk going
/ to bakeries, but latest adyices are that
the separator will not be needed for the
present.
While no changes have been made in
the transportation methods it is not ex-
pected that the Hawkins Express Co., win
be able to move the four or five tons of
milk daily more than 10 or Is days longer
on account of the condition of the roads
north Of Brattleboro, where the main line
is blocked easily by heavy rain or snow
The road from Brattleboro to Springfield,
however, is not difficult.
| Previous efforts upon the part of the
producers organization to obtain conces-
| sions from the Boston & Maine railroad,
whereby milk car would be put in opera
tion before the increase in shipments to
the minimum requirement of 500 quarts
a day, have not been successful and rail-
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