The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-29

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when she got mad. Here she was.
milking an eX.-a COW aI.G I4o,lauI2
to do with the milk but feed it to
the pigs. And the British were sup
posed to be starving. Was this stuff
about wanting all the milk Amer
lea could produce, the bunk?
The lady from Arkansas got mad.
She wrote letter to the President
about 1t, so she did, and she wanted
to know If this was the way to run
a war?
About the same time the lady
from Arkansas was sounding OIL,
! thousands of other dairy farmers
who were keeping extra COWS to help
win the war, were receiving similar
notices. They didn't all write to the
President, but they were just as
mad. Stories began to appear about
millions of gallons of milk being
fed to the pigs or just dumped, and
the War Production Board and the
Department of Agriculture began
to catch unshirted hallelujah for
not figuring things out better in the
first place and not providing enough
equipment to evaporate or dry all
this milk, or make 1t into butter It
looked like national scandal In the
COW barns, and lot of crying over
split milk.
TOO MUCH
SPRING
Investigation by your old reliable,
however, seems to indicate that the
predicament shared by the farm
lady from Arkansas and her ilk Is
accounted for by several factors.
First reason Is Spring-the kind
of Spring the poets rave over, but
as far as a COW is concerned,
,, Spring means green grass, and
green grass means more abundant
pasture, and m. a. p. means more
milk. In the dairy industry this
is known as the flush season. So
come Spring, the COWS all over
this bright land began to give
more milk than they had been
giving just because they couldn't
help 1t. A veritable Niagara Of
milk. A Mississippi of milk,
Gulf Of Mexico Of milk. 1t flooded
the creameries and the evaporat-
ing plants and left them SWIM
ming the Australian crawl from
churn to cheese plant.
Second came the rubber and
gas shortages. Creameries that
had been sending their pickup
trucks on routes both far and wide
discovered they had to conserve
tires, and they had to drop off
their more distant customers.
Third was a price factor. To
encourage the production for ex-
port of evaporated milk, which is
whole milk with about three
fourths of the water removed, 1t
had been given favorable price
position on the market as COM
pared t o the price paid at the
creameries. Then with shipping
and containers becoming a little
tight, the price of butter was
raised to encourage more produc-
ton, and the flow of milk was
switched back to the creameries.
SO, all things considered, with
more cows producing more milk
than ever before, with the evap-
Grating plants working at capac-
ity, with creameries swamped and
with not enough plants completed
for the production of the compar-
atively unknown product of dried
whole milk, things are in kind of
jam and it's no wonder that
farm ladies from Arkansas are
writing letters to the President.
STILL
SOME HOPE
The situation is declared to be far
from hopeless, and the proper au-
thoritieS are trying to do something
about 1t. Department of Agriculture
experts still insist it's impossible for
this country to produce too much
milk. Every pint of it will be needed.
There may be some temporary,
local disturbances, but these re-
ports of milk being dumped into
the field are said to be nothing
more than the dumping Of whey,
which is practically all water,
after the curds have been taken of
for use in the casein manufacturing
plants. 1t can't be dumped in the
rivers because it pollutes the stream.
Even if the swim milk does have
to be stopped to the pigs for time.
the farm experts say there's no
harm in that, for there's shortage
of fats. too, so the piggeries can do
their bit by converting this excess