The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-06
SURPLUS MILK IS
 MADE INTO BUTTER
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supply the Mitchell Dairy company with milk belong to a cooperative association known as the Dairymen's | League, and it is from this association that the milk is purchased. In any se6Ion where thsre is a receiving sta ton, milk is delivered by the mem bers of this Dairymen's League. and there is no limit to the amount of milk which they may deliver, for in order to buy any milk the Mitchell Dairy Com pany is required to take whatever amount the farmers may produce. There are three separate prices for milk so delivered. First, all ithe milk which is sold for fluid milk purposes is paid for at one price. 1 Second, milk which is used for nak- 1 ing cream and condensed milk is paid i for at a lower price. Then, if more
 milk is delivered than can be used as | fluid milk, cream or condensed milk, 1 the balance is man ufactureed into | fsu"cer and the farmers are paid for i this milk according to the prices fix 1 ed in the butter market This method of buying is not from the choosing of khe Mitchell Dairy Company, but is forced upon it by the Dairymen's League, who demand that the highest prce be paid for all milk which is sold in fluid form.
 "The milk which is required for sale in fluid milk form is shipped ito Bridgeport either by truck or by train. The cost of Grade B milk delivered to our plant is ' 1-2 cents per quart. The cost of operating the plant for the washing of bottles, pas teurizing and bottlinS of milk, to- gether with the necessary refrigera- tlon, amounts to cents per quart, and the cost of delivering, collecting bills and loss from bad accounts amounts to cents per quart The milk is sold at 15 cents per quart, and the profit to the Mitchell Dairy Com | pany is 1-2 cent per quart.
 ''All the milk purchased for fluid | milk fs sold in the city and the | only by-products sold for use other | wise than for human consumption is | a part of the skim milk which is sold back to the farmers for the feeding of calves and pigs If this skirn | it would have to be pasteurized, and | bottled, and the cost of such pas teuriDing, botthng and delivering would make the expense of quart 1 of skim milk about cents per quart, and there is no market for skim milk | a this price.
 with regard to the statement that | milk is sold to small dealers for SZoO | or less for 3 forty quart can, It IS absolutely untrue. The only sales of | milk except to the direct consumer, | are sales to milk dealers at 1Oc per
 quart in bottles, and sales to Ice
 cream manufacturers in bulk at 1Oc | per quart or at Sc per quart when 1 not delivered. Sales are also made 1 through our New Milford bottlinS | plant to a large cheese manufacturer 1 who sends his trucks to the plant,
 and the price received is the cost to 1 the Mitchell Dairy Company for such
 milk at the price of cheese milk A small amount of Milk is sold III
 Bridgeport around Easter tune not exceeding on the average i've cans a
 day to dealers who resell the same | to families for the purpose of making cheese. The price received for thls
 milk is S2.75 a can in bulk. This IS a custom which has prevailed in the
 milk business for years.
 50 far as the action of the news paper which published these state
 ments, we have taken the only re-
 course which is open to us for the
 protection of our good name and
 legal rights and have instructed our | attorneys to immediately begin suit | for libel against the publishers of this
 paper"
 A B. Kearney, manager of the | Farmers Dairy Co.,, said:
 ''The story appearing in a local evening paper regarding the milk sit uation in Bridgeport is untrue, in so far as the facts relating to the Farm l CTS Dairy company are concerned Ordinarily such an article would not be recognized or answered, but in the | present unusual conditions 1t calls for a statement of some facts, as well as legal action for such redress as the law allows. This phase of the | matter has been placed in the hands | of our attorneys who will take apprO- | priate action.
 ."The Farmers Dairy company does | not, and never has delivered to con | sumers, it's business being entirely | with dealers. The dealers, of course, | regulate the price to the consumer. 1 In addition to this, the Farmers Dairy l company is not now. and never has | been in agreement with any other | local dairy as to sales-price of its | products to the dealers.
 There is flush of milk in Bridgeport at present, as there is | every year at this time in the general dairy industry but not one drop of whole milk is ever thrown away by | the Farmers Dairy Company.
 Receipts of milk f1uctuate from | day to day according to seasons and | accompanying conditions Such milk as is not sold as fluid milk is turned | into cream and butter The price received for &hiS cream and butter is always considerably lower than the price paid for the milk from which it is produced. That fact is generally understood. This method is considered by dairies in general as the best one to regain as much as possible of the price paid for the whole milk.
 Tn order to secure the cream and then the butter from the whole milk it is necessary to separate the butter fat content from same, which leaves skim milk. Many of the dairies sepa- rate their milk at their receiving of the skim milk to producers and throw the balance out as there is no demand or sale for same as a bever- "a Dairy CnTOT19rV