Milford chronicle., 1925-07-17
SUSSEX COUNTY DAIRYMEN
PLEASED WITH MILK PROFITS
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farmers who promised that if a milk
station was constructed they would
carry sufficient COWS to keep it busy,
and after a great deal of hard work
and solemn promises from the as
sociation, one of the largest COM
panies agreed to take a chance and
build a station. The company built
the station at Nassau at a cost of
about $4,000, while other cOmpan-
les looked and laughed and wonder
ed where the milk was coming from.
The farmers, however, were as good
as their word, and they began to
buy COWS, not ordinary COWS, but the
kind that the association advised.
For the first few months things look
ed bad for the new milk station, as
few as nine cans of milk was being
delivered, and the farmers when
they learned that they would have to
lay concrete floors in their barns,
sheath the ceilings and sides and put
everything in first class order, look
ed askance upon the new idea and
wondered if they would ever get the
money back they were being asked
to spend. A few kept at it, however,
and finally the returns for the milk
began to get better.
The farmers who were selling
milk began to boast Of the checks
they were receiving each month.
Others tried it out and they began !
to make money and then the whole !
section began to realize that they |
had a better crop than corn, wheat |
or truck, and they began to get
thoroughbred bulls and pay fancy |
prices for them. Now the plant is a
success, the farmers are making
money and the Nassau section is be-
coming noted as a milk producing
only milk producing
section, but grade A milk prOduc-
ing section, which means that the
milk produced there is the finest
that can be produced and is as free
from bacteria as is possible. The
Nassau Milk Producers Union is
now having members on the waiting
list, the milk station is shipping
carloads of milk every day and the
farmers are making money. The
station is extending it's territory, for
with concrete roads it can cover
arge section. In that section reach
ing out from Nassau to LeWes, Re
loboth Beach, Angola, Milton, and
even to Georgetown, the farmers are
raising milk for the milk station and
hey are all making money at it.
It is only the beginning, already
,ther sections are planning milk
stations and it is only a matter of
ime that the entire lower part of
Delaware is going to be a real dairy
ng country.
A half hundred dairymen began
elling milk under a State license
asst week, under State inspection
nd under State rules, while another
lalf a hundred are permitted to {
perate under a temporary license {
,ranted them on their promise to I
make things sanitary about their I
,lants and to have their herds of e
ows tested for tubercular taint. t
to this action, which was
rOught about entirely by educa- G
ional talks and inspections among t
he dairymen, there was a State law a
dairies, but one that was L
OF at all enforced. Realizing that /
n effort to enforce the law would /
-ork hardship on the people who I
-anted milk by closing nearly every L
airy in the State and would be apt p
} stiffen the stubbornness of those n
airymen who opposed the laws the c
Use minded enforcement officers +
,ok the matter calmly and went @
bout it in a careful way. Now, with a
ut the least trouble and with the Sj
backing of the dairy 81
ian and the people as well, the II
tate is being effectually guarded 81
gainst bad milH-this without any 81
ouble or any lawsuits. ii