The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-05-28
BY PETER EDSOk
Monitor-leoder Washington
Correspondent

kansas is kinda mad. When q
year oeo lost March, the De-
pertinent of Agriculture sold
this country was going to need
every pound Of doiry products
that could be produced, this
GOOD farm lady decided TO CO.
operate.
She would keep an extra
COW, selling the milk to make
butter or cheese or eVoporoted
milk or whatever was not need
ed for the United Nations.
Things went we'll lost winter.
Prices we're good and every can
taken to the rood wns Pur-
chased eagerly BY the cream
cry route collector.
Then one doy this spring
the good Iody from Arkansas
qot O notice from the cream
cry that they couldn't buy any
more milk from her. Thot's
when she got mad. Here she
wos, milking an extro COW and
nothing to do with the milk
but feed it to the pigs. And the
British we're supposed to be
storvinq. Was this stuff about
wanting all the milk America
could produce, the bunk?
The lady from Arkansas got
mad. She wrote q letter to the
President about it, SO she did,
and she wanted to know if this
was the way to run q wor'
About the same time the
lady from Arkansas was sound
ina off, thousands Of other
dairy formers who we're keep
ing extra COWS to help win the
war we're receiving similar no.
tees. They didn't oil write to
the President, but they we're
Just os mad. Storis began to
appear about millions Of goI-
Ions Of milk being fed to the
pigs or Just dumped, and the
War Production Boord and the
Department Of Agriculture be-
gan TO catch unshirted hoIleIu-
joh for not figuring things out
better in the first place and
not providing enough equip
ment TO evoporote or dry all
this milk, or make it into but
ter. 1t looked like O notionoI
scandal in the COW barns, and
q lot Of crying over split milk.
TOO MUCH SPRING
Investigation by your old re-
liable, however, seems to in
dcote that the predcoment
shared by the form lady from
Arkansas and her milk is &C
counted for by several foctors.
First reason is Spring-the
kind Of Spring the poets rave
over, but as for as the COW is
concerned, Spring means green
grass, and green gross means
more abundant posture, and
m. O. p. means more milk. In
The dairy industry this is known
os 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
il. A veritoble Niagara Of milk.
A Mississippi Of milk, q GuIf
Of Mexico Of milk. II flooded
the creoneries and the eVop-
Grafton plants and left them
swimming the Australian crawl
from churn to cheese plant.
Second came the rubber and
Cos Shortages. Creomeries that
had been sending their pickup
trucks on routes both for and
vide discovered they had to
conserve tires, and they had to
drop off their more distant Gus
toners.
Third wos q price foctor. To
encourage the production for
export Of evoporoted milk,
which is whole milk with about
three fourths Of the water re-
moved, it had been given q
favorable price position on the
market as compared TO the
price poid OF the creomeries.
Then with shipping and con-
toiners becoming O little tight,
the price Of butter wos roised
TO encourage more production,
and the flow Of milk was
switched back to the cream
cries.
So, all things considered,
with more COWS producing more
milk than ever before, with the
eVoporoting plants working at
capacity, with creomeries
swomped and with not enough
plants completed for the pro-
duction Of the comparatively
unknown product Of dried
whole milk, things ore in kind