Connecticut western news., 1919-01-09
FACTS AND FIGURES
 IN MILK SITUATION
Farmers From All Sections Hold Mass Meeting in
 Millerton, N. Y.

The milk strike winch started last week when the farmers refused to ship milk to the cities for the price offered by distributors still continues the majority of farmers, according to report, standing by the leagues terms. The situation resulting from this strike has caused considerable discussion, both for and against the producers. In order that the local situation may be presented to the people of this vicinity in such man her as may be understood, we pre-
 ent the following facts, figures and statements by those who should understand the production and dis t7ibution of milk. ...,-
 The New York Milk Conference Board, Inc, reprints the following figures taken from a New York pa- per showing prices paid for milk in various cities:
 New York; offered .$360 per 100 Philadelphia, paid. SAY per 100 Chicago pays. .3.56 per 100 Boston pays. :. .3.60 per 100 Vermont price is. .... .3.15 per 100 Wisconsin rrice iB.... 300 per 100
 These figures show that the price New York offers is larger than that paid in any ether large milk market in the United States, except Boston which is the same. At the price New York offers, the following table shows what the producer may realize on milk in the various forms in which milk is utilized:
 Fresh milk .............. .8.4 at. Condensed and evaporated. .8.4 at. Powdered milk. ...........8.4c at. Butter (present price) -. 6.6c ct. Cheese (present price) .... .6.8c at.
 The farmer is offered $3.6O per hundred for per cent milk, or milk which contains 3 per cent butter fat If the farmer kept this same hundred pounds of milk and turned it into butter, he would receive for his but ter at TO cents per pound, about S225, allowing ounces of salt fer this amount. This would seem to indicate that the farmer would lose S1.35 on every hundred pounds of milk if he made butter instead of selling it to the creamery as fresh milk at the price offered by New Y ork distributors.
 So far we have told the distribu- tcrs' side Of the story, but now we will present She farmers.
 The claim is made that at the price of $4.01 per hundred pounds of milk, which the farmers are asking, is about 9 cents per quart, barely more than the cost of production. New York distributors sell this milk for Is cents per quart. The cost of bottling and pasteurizing this milk is estimated at 43 cents per can or a little more than 1 cent per quart The cost of shipping this milk to New York is 39 cents per can, which is trifie less than 1 cent per quart.
 These costs being taken as the there would still remain seven cents to be divided between the person or company who delivers the milk in the city and the bottlers for their profit. Allowing the dis tcibutor, in case it was an individ- ual working for himself, three cents per quart for distributing this milk, he could make about SIP per day, which isn't really small pay This would leave cents per quart pro- fit for the company dealing with the farmer, from which very small per. cent. might be deducted for ice etc.
 Now if the farmer made butter from his milk and sold the butter at the prsseuo nls.rAeC price, let's see
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