The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-08
UNLIMITED MILK
 SOON AVAILABLE
 FOR BIRMINGHAM
Tennessee Dairymen to Put in 2,0OO Gallons a Day. kiln" Arrives-Cities
 Selling Pasteurized
 Milk at Low Prices

With 2,O00 gallons a day of
 rich Jersey milk from Tennes- see to add to local milk distrib-
 utors who will stay with the
 city in its fight for clean food,
 the health authorities have
 ceased to worry about the situ-
 ation.
 In addition, E. L. widemire of syla-
 cauga has secured a local agency Tor
 "Klim," the new evaporated powdered
 milk ,and will have enough ready for
 distribution in day or two to help
 handle any situation that may arise
 "Klim' is manufactured by Merrell-
 soule & Co., of Syracuse, N. r.. and has
 stood every test to which the labor
 atory workers of the city and county
 departments of health could subject it.
 Being pure milk, Mt tastes like pure milk. The powder, when mixed with water, makes a rich milk at cost o1 IT cents a quart
 As far as can be learned the Ten nessee Jersey milk to be brought here also will sell in the neighborhood or r cents quart.
 Regarding pasteurization, when asked yesterday about the cost of this treatment, pr. J. D. Bowling said: LOWERS COST Claims that pasteurization adds to inc cost of milk do not hold Appli- cation of milk in connection with we'll equipped milk plants invariably have resulted in lowering the price Of mix 10 the consumer as well as an increase in volume of available milk. "In the group of cities heard from the higher the standard of cleanliness and sanitation, the more milk is avail able and the cheaper the price to the consumer.
 "A moderate amount of clean raw milk properly safeguarded is always to be desired and is usually sold at a premium to the well-to-do class, but the majority must depend on market milk, which can be sold at a cheaper price.
 'In several cities milk is retailing at from 12 to 15 cents per quart. The average price of milk is higher in southern cities, due to the lack of de- yelopment of the dairy industry. It cannot develop faster than facilities for collecting and marketing products increase.
 "The south has ideal dairying condi- lions and is looked to as dairylns center of the future.
 Analysis of data on milk from 50 cities heard from out of 100 to which ouestionnaires were sent, resulted as l follows:
 l ..Eighteen cities pasturize from tc | 50 per cent.
 1 "The average retail price for raw milk, 1919 cents per quart The aver age retail price for pasteurized milk l1793 per quart The amount of milk i available is 0.59Sth of a pint per capita l "In thirty-two cities which pasteur- 1 ize from 50 to 100 per cent of their milk I the average retail price of raw milk l is IT cents per quart, and of pasteur- 1 ized milk nearly Is cents per quart. | Tn thirty two cities which pasteur' | ize 75 to 100 per cent the average re l tail price of milk is about 171s cents and 15h cents for pasteurized milk. "The amount of milk available 1T l these cities is 0.6S0th of a pint. Seven l teen cities out of the entire grouI 1 considered, pasteurize 90 to 100 pel I cent. In these cities the average price l of raw milk is TIE cents per quart l and of pasteurized milk 141a cents pei 1 quart.
 l conditions in Birmingham are in | teresting. We pasteurize 20 per cen l of our milk. The retail price of oul ! raw milk of good grade is 25A cent' per quart and of our pasteurized mill 20 cents.
 Milk in Birmingham costs as mucf I as in any other city in the United l States, and much more than most cities in it's class. Less milk is available thar l in any other city in the country, 1T l proportion.
 "The sale of milk in bottles is uni wersal requirement in all cities. mak ing serious attempts to regulate ant safeguard the milk supply"