Evening star., 1936-10-31
MILK PRICE RISES
ONE CENT A QUART
.FORD.C. CONSUMER
Increased to ID Cents.
Chestnut Farms Follows
Lead of Embassy.
PRODUCERS DEMANDS
ARE MET BY DIARIES
Boost Effective Tomorrow-0fi.
cials Cite Necessity
of Hike.
BY BLAIR BOLLES.


Washington consumers will pay
cent a quart more for their milk be-
ginning tomorrow morning than they
do today as result of the city's
leading dairy's decision to pass on to
the consumer the price increase de-
manded by the organized farmers of
Maryland and Virginia.
The Embassy Dairy, handling from
1900 to 5000 gallons a day, was the
first to fall into line and agree to
the increase. Chestnut Farms Chevy
Chase Dairy, which handles almost
half the milk on the market, soon
afterward announced its price will go
from 13 cents a quart to IA cents a
quart, or back to the level of May
l, 1882.
The Chestnut Farms Chevy Chase
Dairy decision followed conferences
this morning between Edgar and
Henry Brawner. operators Of the
dairy.
highland Farms Dairy producers
beginning tomorrow will get l cent
gallon more for their milk than they
do now, as well as cents instead Of
cents for each tenth per cent of but
terfat content over per cent, Philip
Rosenfield. attorney for the dairy an
nounced. Highlands store price will
remain at 10 cents quart, however.
Wakefield and Marcy bros. dairies
we're undecided on their move.
Thompson Bros, the fifth buyer of the
output of the 1,l00 farmers organized
as the Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers Association, said it would
make known its decision at 2 pm.
All were expected to agree to the
higher price, however.
Letter to Diaries.
B. B. Derrick, treasurer of the as
sociation, sent each of the five dairies
which buy his farmers daily produce
ton of $1,000 gallons a letter de.
manding the same new minimum
price scale which would have been
effective tomorrow if the milk mar
keting agreement had not been thrown
out as unconstitutional by Justice
Oscar L Luhrine in District Court.
II haven't heard any complaints
from the dairies," Derrick said. Il
guess they are all falling into line.
They have to. Our producers are
pushed to the limit. They can't pay
for the feed. They can't turn out
the milk if they don't get more money
for it."
I'VE can't do anything else but pay
what they ask" James j. Ward.
president of the Embassy Dairy, said.
And that means We have to put
our price up. We don't make enough
money now to cover this increase"
Feed shortage is the answer to his
demands for increased price, Derrick
said. adding:
THE producer is put at a tire.
mendous disadvantage by the increase
in the cost of feed since June Harvests
of clover, timothy and alfalfa are
way off average and pasture is so
poor that the farmer has to buy
extensive grain feeds. He can't pro-
duce for a profit at present prices"
New Price Schedule.
The new farmer-price schedule calls
for 1924 hundred pounds, instead
of the present $500 and S282. and
| requires top-price payment for 80 per
cent of the farmers output instead
Of rs per cent as at present.
The farmer holds the whip-hand in
the economics of milk supply from
now until Midspring, for COWS pro.
duce little in Winter months and sup
ply barely meets demand For this
reason, it is believed that the dis
tributor will have to meet the terms
of the farmer.
The distributor would find it almost
impossible to find new sources of milk.
for virtually all producers in this milk.
shed-which overlaps the Baltimore,
Philadelphia and Richmond sheds
have market for their Winter out
put. For the farmer to dump his milk
for few days would be costly to him,
but nothing like as costly as it would
be for the distributor, whose plant
would be idle.
Meanwhile, the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration sought hurried
action on the problem of the consti.
tutionality of the marketing agree
ment, which will be laid before the
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