The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-09-27
SURPLUS MILK PROBLEM
TO BE CONSIDERED
Milk Producers are to Hold Meetings
Throughout Each of the New Eng
land States Early in
December.

Plans are being made for a serie:
of state dairy days" to be held by
the New England Milk Producers as
ISOLATION early in December. On the
day assigned to each state simultane
Gus meetings will be held in each coun.
ty with able speakers to explain the
present and the future outlook of the
industry in New England. The aim
Of the meetings is to show the farm
ers of each county that d~airying is a
New England wide business and can
no longer be considered as a local mat.
ter.
The tentative plan provides for 81
m~ultaneous meetings in every county in
Maine on Monday of the week selected,
similar meetings in every county in
New Hampshire on Tuesday, meetings
in Vermont on Wednesday, in Massa-
chusetts on Thursday and in Rhode
Island and those counties of Connec-
ticut and New York which come into
the New England Milk Producers as
ISOLATION territory on Friday. Among
the speakers will be the field men and
district managers of the association.
The meetings will he held in con
nection with the annual meeting of the
county branches of the association fol
lowing the meetings of the local
branches in each town in New England.
They will give a new opportunity for
farmers to get first hand information
as to the conditions under which milk
is marketed in the cities. Boston's
milk supply now comes from all over
New England and some from Canada
and New York state. Its total is
about as much as all other cities of
New England combined. Under these
conditions transportation and market
ing problems are of vital Importance to
the dairy farmers.
The county meetings will give the
dairy farmers of New England al op-
portunity to express their satisfaction
and voice their kick" at dairying as
a business. Their combined opinions,
kicks and satisfaction, will have a
powerful influence in the annual meet
ing of the association to be held in
Boston in January.
Efforts to stabilize the dairy indus
try so that farmers will receive a
even lttNolllt NtiOuRiAoht NV FNhi
from the sale of milk are being made
by the New England Milk Producers
association, A special committee is
considering ways of stimulating farm
ers to produce more milk in winter
it is scarce, thus tending to
the supply and stabilize the
This stimulation is to be given
through the adoption of a rating plan.
Under the present conditions milk
in the cities have had to 90 into
A wider and wider field to buy milk
enough for the increasing city trade
in the short months, while in the
of greater production they
get sufficient for the city needs
much nearer. At present the dealers
BUY all that the farmer produces the
year around. and in the surplus sea
son pay a lower price for that pro-
of milk which has to be made
nto butter, cheese, casein or other
larry product and sold at a lower price
han whole milk brings.
The proposed rating plan provides
hat every dairy farmer will be given
ating, on the three months in which
here is the least surplus milk, and
hat he shall be paid whole milk prices
throughout the year for approximate
V the amount he produces during these
hree short months. any excess over
his amount to be paid for at the low
r surplus price. This will tend to
Increase the supply of milk in the
hort months as any farmer will be