The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-26

"burden of the surplus".
 The board of milk control, there- fore, has been created to accom- plish these specific tasks among many others:
 i, All Connecticut milk produc- CTS are so far as possible to be put on an even footing In supplying the fluid milk market. They should get for their surplus what 1t Is properly worth in the market. They should not have to underhid each other in order to place their supplies. whe- ther of fluid or surplus milk.
 9, All dealers are so far as pos- sible to be put on an even footing in performing their market duty and service which Is primarily to get the producers milk to the con sumers. They should buy their fluid milk at a fair price from ev- cry producers, not juggling one against another to their harm. They should sell their fluid milk to the consumer at Q fair price which Is enough to pay for their services and Investment. They should be able to buy and sell their surplus milk Ut Q margin of profit, which takes into account their burdens and their risks.
 3. When the milk gets to the consumers, they too are to be put on an even footing so far as Is pos sible. The price of fluid milk to the consumers as 0 whole should be as low as Is possible the. year around. But 1t should not be so low for q few months that the pro- ducers lose money and partly or wholly dry off their cows or even send them to the butchers. If that happens in flush period, there will not as much milk as the con- sumers need in the dry period and the prices will jump up until they are as much too high then as they had been too low before. What serves the consumer best Is an ade- quate quantity of milk at an evenly low price the year around.
 With this explanation Of the run damental principles on which the milk control act board must act, and the vital interests which 1t must protect, let us briefly review what really happened In the milk business to bring the last legisla- ture into action to correct public distress. Under the previous lack of system, when hard times fol- lowed the recent depression, con- sumers bought less milk. The sur plus, of course, incraased. Certain dealers refused to bear their share of the burden of the surplus. They perhaps refused to take any milk from some of the producers who usually supplied them. or they took only part of the milk which their nhAGA diQNn rA aA producers sold that malk cheaply
 SO as to get what price they could for 1t. The dealers who bought that cheap milk used 1t to cut prices. and all dealers had to sell more cheaply to meet them. That forced still other dealers to refuse to take all of the milk they had formerly taken. More producers sold milk still more cheaply In order to find
 some market for 1t, since milk comes like mama every day and cannot be kept more than a few hours over the days needs with out becoming unfit for use as milk, while the ordinary farmer has not the machinery to make it into something else. Under this pres sure the price of milk at the farms dropped so low that the farmers were in acute distress. One produc- CT has showed us that he got only about 1 76-100c per quart for his milk last March. Young cows were being sent to the butchers, and there was grave danger that a milk famine would follow. That is the sort of thing that happens when producers try to underbid each other.
 But a group of market wise pro- ducers in this state had set up a
 milk pool among themselves in the hope of stabilizing the market. A milk pool is cooperative market ing plan aimed to obtain for each