The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-01
AGREEMENT. HAS BEEN REACHED ON
 PRICE OF MILK
FDirectors of League Vote to \ Sell Milk For $3.65 Per
 Hundred.

{ At meeting of the directors and kcounty presidents held in New York EC1ty on Monday, September 27th, It Twas voted to sell League milk for kOctober for $3-65 per hundred pounds Thts is for three per cent milk at the T200-210 mile zone, with the usual fbutterfat differentials and with tfreaght dffferentia1s as changed by |nhe new freight rates. At a n.eeung Eof the directors held two weeks ear k1fer they voted for a price of $3.S5- kButthe League was unable to sell the fmtik at this price and for many req fsons it was thought best to change fhaS not been reached with the diStrt- Ebutors but they have intimated that fthey would buy at this price.
 { Manufacturers of milk products fstiu refuse to buy milk at any price fafter the beginning of October so that tthe above price will not include the fmilk of those members of the organ pization who are now selling to the amanufacturers but it will move all of 1.-the milk for the fluid market and E that which is going to ice cream man [ufacturers.
 ! The chief reason why the directors s.decide dto change the price was that Emo milk has been. sold at the $3.S5 Edng twenty-five to thirty per cent of Sit now going to the manufacturers 9at any price, and, therefore, if the ffuid milk was not sold, it would be Ia case of double-headed fight with Tall of the dealers, and nothing would Splease many of them better than to have the farmers keep their milk at ahome.
 ! In case of trouble. the dealers fwould be situated that the distri- butors would obtain a considerable lsupply of milk now going to manu- Rfacturers at very low prices and use Ethh5 cheap milk as a weapon against [ the producers of fluid milk who were kkeeping it at home. In case the farmers won the controversy, the dis ali iate mn fthe price again to the consumers | with the farmers higher price as excnse Cit would not be a justifica- } tion) and this would imm ediate1y re- fduce consumption and react to the fdetrfment of the farmer especially ewhen the tendency of all markets is With the sale of all of the fluid fmilk and the milk to the ice cream B man nufacturers at $3.65, not only will fthe milk of the great majority of the members be sold but it will be possi- lble to sell at this price to the distri- Srbutors at least some of the milk swhich is now going to the manufac- Fturers
 Three dollars and sixty-five cents per hundred pounds is below the Bcost of production, and is not a sat t1sfactory price to farmers. On the bother hand, it is fifty-four cents high Ter than the price for October milk ltlst year, and milk will be sold by the fI1eague at this low pr.i-~ in consider
 
 which is faced at this time by all kinds of business.
 It is hoped that by November the fsituation will improve. In the mean stfme, the signing of the Cooperative SContracts and of the orders for pool Eing the proceeds from the members aIniIk is going on. Meetings are be- E1ng held in every community in pDairymen's League territory, and swith almost no opposition the farmers svote to put their business on a better Fbasfs by signing the Cooperative con Etracts and the orders on the dealers for the pooling of the proceeds.
 It is not certain yet that the pool ing can be put into effect to take rcare of the October milk, as it is a stremendous job of organization to get the contracts to farmers, have them signed and then to make the necessary business arrangements afterwards to make pooling of proceeds opera . Etive. Whether or not it can be done, depends almost entirely upon the Efarmers themselves and the interest |they have in saving their own busi- ness. It was the opinoion of the ma
 jority of the Board of Directors that it would be possible to get ready to pool the October proceeds. If this