The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-01-17
"A. G.. Stoxen's Milk is Dumped at Lily Lake in
Trouble Between Farmer Producers
and the Big Dealers.
FIGHT ON TODAY AT BRISTOL TOWN
Leslie Guenther is Halted and Beaten This Morning
When He Draws Whip Pabst Finds Pckets
Disposed to be Peaceful

strength lay in their devotion to their
cause and to one another but not IN
violence and disorder.
stoxen Milk Spilled.
A. C. Stoxen, of Wfeatland, who to-
gether with two others, believed 20 be
Arthur Pacey and Piebe Vandersee,
was driving a truck load of milk 20
Burlington on Sunday, was crowded
into the ditch by a group of ten men
picketing the road and about forty
cans of milk were spilled.
The Stoxen truck had been bound
for Bassetts but learning of the bar
ricade there, the men had turned
about and were on their way to the
creamery at Burlington. While they
were on the Lily Lake road, they were
met by the picket guard.
Wilmot farmers are pick t i n g.
Woodwork was the scene of some ex-
element his morning, but after a
parley together with the sheriff, the
crowd dispersed and only the picket
ing Seommittee appointed by the local
group remained on hand. Salem has
not taken a pound of milk to the
creameries. Silverlake took eight
hundred pounds Sunday but that was
before four o'clock in the morning, and
since then the, milk has been withheld.
War Since New Year.
The battle between the farmers and
the dealers, that is between the milk
producers and the milk buyers started
the first of the year, although 1T was
not until this morning that Kenosha
county Joined the ranks of the active
militants.
During the last six months the
farmers were getting $2.75-a humid
redweight for their milk. During the
month OF December when meetings
of this milk producers were held in
Chicago for the purpose of negotiat-
ing for fair price with the buyers,
the buyers representative, E. H. Kull-
man, said that the buyers did not
care TO bid at any price, The pro
ducers then quoted a price Of $2.86A
cents for hundred pounds of milk,
but have been willing to arbitrate for
a continuance for six months of the
price Of $2.75 ewt.
On January firsG. the buyers fixed
the price at $3.50 hundredweight, for
the next three months, with no guar
anty Of what the price would be on
April LIST. According to a statement at
Bristol this morning. Kullman, the
buyer spokesman, said that milk IN
Chicago would not retail for less
than fourteen cents quart "and
might be higher
An uproar followed from the farm
ers throughout the district serving the
Bowman Dairy and the Borden Dairy
companies, Since January 8 not a
pound of milk has been shipped
either of these concerns out of Nc
Henry county.
Some Milk Facts given.
1t is interesting to note the figures
in connection with this war of milk.
The farmer when he gets $2.75 a
cwt., the price he is now holding out
for, is getting the little end, as is
claimed, of the milk price. The sale
in the Chicago district which is fed
by the Bowman and Borden plants, is
$6.44 a cwt or a difference of $3.50
for the marketing of the milk, even
when the farmer gets the price he
asks for. This is an allowance of over
1870 per cent. There is nothing like n
fftv-ffty split in the situation