Evening star., 1934-10-04
SPREAD IN PRICE
OF MILK REVEALED
A. A. A. DiscIoseS Variance
in Price Farmer Gets
and Housewife Pays.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Agriculture Adjustment Ad-
ministration produced figures today
to show striking variations in the
spread between the price the dairy
farmer gets for milk and the sum the
housewife pays.
After surveying so cities, the Farm
Administration disclosed that this
spread, called the gross operating mar
gin of the milk distributors, ranged
from a low of AL cents quart at
Chicago to a high of S.34 cents at
Raleigh, N. c.
The report noted that four out OF the
five localities where the spread is be-
low S cents are under Federal regula-
ton in the form of milk marketing
licenses. The four are Chicago, Bal
timore, Boston and the so-called
Quad cities of Davenport, Iowa,
Rock Island, Moline and East Moline,
H. The A. A. A.. however. did not
claim the credit for the lower margins
in those markets.
Wide Price Variance.
The retail price of delivered milk
ranged from cents per quart at
Evansville, Ind. Indianapolis and
the Quad cities to Is cents at Miami.
Fla. Prices paid to producers scaled
from a low of STA per 100 pounds
at Duluth, Mimi, to a high of $40 at
Fall River, Mass.
Oficials pointed out that the review
does not include allowances for milk
sold at wholesale or prices the con-
Sumers pay at stores, which are fire.
ouently few cents less than the de-
livered price. 1t also ignored supplies
of relief milk distributed by dealers.
The review is not offered as COM
plete measurement of the relative effl-
cheney of distributing systems in the
cities named, as the margins relate
only to that portion of the milk which
is sold at retail and delivered to con-
sumers' residences" the administra-
tion said.
Under Federal License.
In the group of 26 markets where
distributors margins range from
cents up to cents. IL we're shown TO
be under Federal licenses-Evansville
and Indianapolis. Ind; Des Moines
Iowa; Omaha and Lincoln, Nebr.; the
Twin Cities of Minneapolis and ST.
Paul, MINI; Oakland and Los Angeles
Calf; Fall River, Mass; Richmond
Va, and st. Louis.
In the So cent group. the markets
operating under State regulations are:
Philadelphia. Seattle. Pittsburgh. Dal-
las, Texas; Salt Lake City, Portland
Oree.: New York City and Cleveland
Also in this group were the fol-
lowing markets operating without any
official control: Memphis. Tenn;
Wilmington, Del: Mason City Iowa
Washington, D. c.: Butte, Mont, and
Sioux Falls, S. Oak. Providence, r
l., another member of the group
operates under joint regulation of the
State and Federal Governments.
In a third group of markets hav-
ing margins from 6 cents a quart up
to Z cents, Savannah. Ga; Fort
Wayne, Ind; Detroit, Denver, Louis.
vile, KY, and Kansas City Mo, oper-
ate under Federal license. Albany and
Buffalo, ". Y; Hartford. Conn, and
Cincinnati are regulated by State
license, and Macon, Ga; Duluth
Mimi; wheeling, w. Va, and New
Orleans have no control
In the final group with margins
from 7 to 834 cents. none operates
under Federal license. Miami is
under State regulation. and San
Francisco. Little Rock, Ark; Birm-
ingham, Ala, and Raleigh, N. c., are
without any official control.