The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-24

nineteen ScneQuleS or prOQuctlOn. make five times as much milk in | For instance, one producer may May and June as he does in Au- gust Another producer may make more milk in October and Novem- Der than he does in May and June. These are two samples picked at random from the nineteen merely to show that the prdouction of milk is enormously varied. No single one of these methods of pro- duction can be picked out as the method of "the producer"
 And "the dealer', who is he? Is he the man with one COW who makes, sells and delivers eight or ten quarts day to his neighbors? Is he the man who makes from 10 up to 100 quarts on his own farm. and buys some more from other farmers? Is he the man who makes 100 quarts more or less, and buys from 40 quarts to 400 or more from his neighbors? Is he the man who makes none, but buys his whole supply; and if so, is "the dealer" the man who buys 100 quarts or any other amount. and runs one route? Is he perchance the man WAO Ody6 AhOiC iiih tbhu kuH6 bWO or three or four routes? Is "the dealer" the man or the company who buys much milk and runs more routes, up to perhaps 75 or more? Evidently 1t is not easy to select from all of these types of dealers, one sort who typifes "the dealer.'
 The milk control board must know how, in some way, to adjust the real interests of all of these types of producers and all of those types of dealers into as harmoni- ous a whole as Is possible. Yet, wit htheir divers interests, how is, harmony in the milk industry possibility?
 May we not discuss therefore very briefly few of the problems that you would see and hear dis cussed if you sat in with the board for a few days. What Is the prob. lem of the surplus? ou would learn quite early in your sessions with the board that the householders use of bottled milk absorbs the larger part of the milk that Is pro- duced in Connecticut, but far from the whole of 1t Is used in that form. You would learn that the restau. rants and boarding houses also use a good deal of this fluid milk" as 1t Is known in the business. At some seasons of the year, the total market for fluid milk may use only. hal for less than half of the production in this state Surplus" The surplus isn't wasted, but it must be manufactured at once in- fluid milk. Because of this, 1t is to a less perishable form than worth less to the dealer than fluid milk. If every producer should make five times as much milk in May and June as he did in August, about four-ffths of the May and June production would be surplus. Some do. Some do not. The wiser farmers do study the market. and try to produce in proportion to its needs. But no consumer takes exactly the same amount every day in the year. Their needs vary from day to day and from season to sea- son. Last winter the production of milk was heavy, and consumers were buying less than usual. That threw a larger proportion of the consumers were using more uid milk Into surplus. Last July the milk, and production was falling off. That cut down the surplus to a comparatively low point, and so madet the problem of the surplus less acute.
 Now in its intensive study of the milk situation in this state. the milk control board has learned quite Q few things that the public generally does not recognize. One thing that is becoming more and more evident is that while the milk industry Is a single industry. Its problems are immensely complica. ted. There Is a common misapprc. hension as to where the difficulties lie. Farmers are prone to 'blame the dealers for the prices they pay. Dealers are prone to blame the framers for the temperamental schedules of production they fol- low. It is fact that every farmer who .prdouces milk is in competi. ton with every other farmer who produces milk, and they alone are responsible for much of their own troubles. Tn any attempt to solve the problems of the industry, If these facts are lost sight of for a moment and an attempt is made to adjust the industry, as if the pro- ducerg difi1culties are necessarily the falut of the dealers, only con- fusion will follow on the attempt. 
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