Connecticut western news., 1922-09-07
WHOLESALE MILK BUSINESS
 IS PURCHASED BY LEAGUE
Price of Milk for September Will Be $2.9O for
 Class One
INCREASE IS 21c PER 100
Believe That Purchase of Plants . Will Help Stabilize
 Markets .M. .-.

The producers schedule of milk prices, which the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association, Inc. is ask ign the dealers to pay for milk in September, was decided upon by the Board of Directors after hours of exhaustive study and careful deliber- ation at its monthly meeting in Utica on August 23-24.
 The prices, as recommended, are as follows:
 Class l. Milk sold in fluid form, $2.90 per 100 pounds.
 Class 2. Milk sold for use chiefly in the making of cream and ice cream, $2.0O.
 Glass 3-A. Milk sold for the manufacture of canned milk 55 cents per 100 pounds over the price to be determined for milk for butter in September.
 Class 3-B. Milk for the manu- facture of fancy hard cheeses, 40 cents per 100 pounds over the price to be determined for milk for butter in September.
 Class 4. Milk for butter and cheese to be determined in the usual manner by the average wholesale prices of these products in the New York City market during September
 The price asked for Class 1 is 21 cents per 100 pounds more than the present price. 1t is exactly the same price as the dealers paid the association in September 1921 dur ing which the month they charged consumers 15 cents quart. The retail price for Grade B milk in New York City now is 15 cents quart, the dealers paying $2.69 for fluid milk. #..
 The increase in this price will be highly satisfactory to dairymen, as it represents figure more closely related to costs of production than has prevailed in many months. 1t is price which is justified by economic conditions now prevailing.
 Class 2 price will remain the same as in August.
 Class 3-A price is an increase of 15 cents and Class 3-B is an in- crease of 10 cents per 100 pounds over the August price. M.
 League Purchases City Business
 The Dairymen's League Cooper atiHe Association announces the pur- chase of all of the wholesale milk business of the Levy Dairy Go. in- cluding all of their country and city property. This property in- cludes a great wholesale city milk plant, located on 18th Street, New York City; and 22 milk stations, to- gether with all of the equipment, and supplies, including 115 horses, harnesses, wagons, and 13 trucks; and the good will and regular trade and customers which the Levy firm of wholesalers has long had in the city.
 The announcement of entering the wholesale business in New York city has already been received with en- thusiasm at many farm meetings which have been held in the few days since the purchase was made, for the adoption of this policy and the purchase of a wholesale plant for handling fluid milk in the city will mean in time a larger sale of pooled milk in Class 1, thereby bringing to LhS pOOiltAB l0ihSiS h AAishSA phiNCs
 Those who are familiar with the situation believe that the purchase of this property by the Co-operative Association will act as a stabilizer of the city markets during these unsettled times, and it is not ex- pected that the new policy will in any way interfere with those dealers who are cooperating with the dairymen's association in handling their milk In purchasng this wholesale business the League will not go into the dis tribution of bottled milk at retail from wagons but rather will sell milk at wholesale to the thousands of groceries in New York city which in turn sel it to the consumers who come to the stores for it,
 M. E. Church Notes s