The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-18

ditions under which to serve the
public by putting the dairy upon
higher standard of cooperation for
the interest OF the industry without
respect Of person "or individual"
1t is an established fact that the
product Of the dairy is the source
and foundation of the most important
portions of all human food and al.
most indispensable therefore should
have the first and most important
consideration from the city's people,
| to build and maintain the dairy in
dustry which is of even greater i'm
portance to Florida than the orange
or wonderful gardens because it is
/ the source of the most important
foods from which we live and rear the
children to perpetuate the nation and
its people.
1t requires cooperation of its sub
jects to establish and maintain its
principles through which to build as
did the orange industry through the
citrus exchange and which would
never have been accomplished and
reached its important place among
not been for the growers cooperation
the industries Of the country had il
and working together for the interest
of the whole people and the benefit
/ the country would derive therefrom
anf prompted to bring this matter
before the public for several reasons,
first of which is because | have re-
Gently encountered prices of milk that
have been made to the people at
which no dairyman can sell his milk
and there from maintain his dairy, |
keep up his stock to high standard,
pay for good feed and help and render
good service with quality production,
then after careful Investigation | find
that the dairymen who are making
these prices have been forced into
the retail market by the wholesale
dealers of the city who have been re-
ducing the wholesale price of milk
until it is impossible for them to con
tinue to sell at the price and stay in
the business, in fact one man told me
that his business had been operating
at loss for some time, this state of
affairs will never elevate the dairy
industry nor will it improve the con.
ditions under which the public is
served which is best a good product
at Il fair price or a poor and unsatis
factory product at lower price, of
all things and above all things pro
tect and maintain the quality of milk !
and milk products.
We have striven hard and, honestly
since entering the business to produce
a milk Of quality and under no cir
cumstances have or will we deviate
from these principles with this we
have made it point to render the |
best service possible under the exist
ing conditions and | am convinced
that my efforts have been appreciated
by the people from the fact that we
have increased our herd in less than
two years from IL cows to something |
over 40 Of as fine grade and regis
tered jerseys as there is in the state
with an increase of from ten to over
two hundred, customers and not with
standing the fact that there seems to
be surplus of milk in Lakeland we
have added six COWS to our herd
within the last six weeks and haven't |
a drop of surplus milk at present. This
condition confirms my belief and faith
in the principles for which | stand
and my confidence in the good judg-
ment of the public.
In the case of the dairyman who
cannot sell his product even at low
price there is a reason and if you do
we are glad to help you, and coopera
we are glad to help you, and coopera
ton will put you right for in honest
cooperation there is combined |
strength and power all for the same
purpose in which we are all inter
ested. therefore the inevitable result; |
is success.
If there are conditions that are un-
fair to the dairy industry and under
which it cannot prosper, how would |
it be possible for one of us to remedy |
the trouble when as a matter of fact
one Of us have been undoing what the
other has been trying to do, in other
words we have two good horses |
neither of which are getting any
where because one is hitched to the
front end of the car the other to the
rear both doing their best and neither
accomplishing any thing, why not let
both of us pull the same way, we
are both doing the same way, why not
be friends, then the fellow who con-
sumes the milk gets it from our cows
anu we SeIN6HliA WHY SHOulu lie HOI
be friendly, why certainly we should
all be friends.
Now we are with you heart and
soul, the dairymen, the consumer, the
man who milks the cow and every one
who is interested in this important
business, in fact we are with the cows,
customers and cans about eighteen
hours a day therefore we must be
pretty we'll interested.
So far we have been combining our
subject to the dairy interests direct,
but in order to make clear my pur
pose of principles and ring this i'm
portant industry to the attention of
those who have the best interests of
the whole people and the country at
heart l desire to call your attention
tothe following conditions which are
in substance history recorded ''or
facts"
The financier or banker will tell you
to accumulate your funds by putting
them in the savings account in the
bank this is in fact n false impre>