Evening star., 1933-12-25
Plan Announced Following
Mary|and.V Virginia Aban'
doning of Triple Plan.
FLAT PAYMENT HELD
FEASIBLE BY ATTORNEY
Darr of Independent Distributors
Says Farmers in Capital Area
Would Be Relieved of Doubt.

Efforts to obtain a nat single farn
price for all milk in the Washington
producing area will be renewed as re-
suit Of the abandonment by the Mary
land g. Virginia Milk Producers Asso-
citation of the much-criticized three
price plan.
This announcement was made today
by Seton Darr, attorney for the Fair
fax Farms Dairy and the Independent
Milk Distributors Association, as farm
ers throughout this milk shed sought
to determine whether they would lose
or gain by the action of their coop
erative in going on a two-price basis
THE only feasible method OF pro-
duction control can be accomplished by
paying the farmer one price for al!
the milk he ships on the market, salo
Darr For that reason the lnoepen-,
dent Milk Distributors Association VIII
renew its fight for the one-pricee plan
as embodied in the proposed marketing
agreement which it has submitted To
the Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration.
Under the one-price plan every
farmer in the milk shed knows just how
much he is going to get for his product
There are no basic quotas to be decided
upon and no class or class surpluses
to pull the price to the farmer Gown to
q bankruptcy level"
Two-Price Plan Topic.
The associations reversion to the two
price plan, which had been in effect on
this market until last April l. was the
main topic Of discussion among farmers
throughout the nearby dairy country
The Immediate reaction to the an
roth hnT
mixed many farmers favorlng the
change. while others expressed DEFINITE
opposition ..,
The chief reason for criticism was
due to the associations announcement
that the farmers allotment of class l
milk chat which goes into fluid dis
tribution) will be changed. Frank
Walker. president of the cooperative,
said high bracket men, those who
sell a very large percentage OF their
milk as class l will be cut down and
the "low-bracket men, given the ben
eft.
One prominent Montgomery County
dairy farmer said today he feared tne
total amount of class | on the market
would be reduced. with the net result
that as a whole the producers will lose
money" He called the association
action "a sop to the members who want
to change management.
Darr, in reiterating his organization
stand for the one price plan, pointed
out all the milk shipped into WaShlng-
ton IS of the same high quality and
that it is ridiculous to pay the farmers
two or even three prices Tor 1t.
Production Control Measure.
Proponents of the two and three
price plan have contended that it was
necessary as a production control
measure.
But the recent Senate milk inVeStlga-
ton disclosed graphically that the dairy
companies make more money out OF
the distribution of bottled milk. The
inquiry developed also that there is no
actual surplus on this market, that that
portion of milk not used for fluid milk
and cream is manufactured into dairy
products at profit.
Prices have been 26 cents for class
/. 20 cents for class and 10 cents
for class 3, which Is used for manu-
featuring purposes. Under the two
price plan, class / will remain at its
present level, while classes 2 and 8
are to be consolidated at 16 cents per
gallon.
Meanwhile, Walker Hill Dairy, which
Quit buying through the association on
Saturday, continued to receive milk
from association members despite
the threat Of the management to cut
of the supply 1t contracted inde-
pendently at 26 cents for class l and
is cents for class 2, but announced
later 1t would pay the same prices as
determined by the association.