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Milk is one of the very cheapest available human foods. We believe 

 that the nuitnal interests of consumers, producers and distributors 

 will be conserved by the giving of greater publicity to this fact. We 

 hereby commend the action of the milk producers at their recent meeting 

 in advocating the appropriation of one-half cent per hundred pounds 

 on all market milk sold in the Detroit area for the creation of a fund 

 to be used in such publicity work or otherwise for the promotion of the 

 dairy industry in thfs area, and recommend that all contracts made 

 for market milk in this area should provide for the deduction of such 

 a sum from each patron's check and the payment of same into the 

 treasury of the ilichigau Milk Producers' Association by the receiving 

 distributor. 



In consideration of the above mentioned facts this commission finds 

 that the contract price for market milk in the Detroit area beginning 

 December 1, 1917 to producers in the fifteen cent freight zone, shall be 

 f3.35 per hundred pounds, f. o. b. shipping station platform, for milk 

 testing 3.5 per cent of butter fat, with a deduction of four cents per 

 point for milk below this standard of butter-fat and with an addition 

 of four cents per point for every point above this standard up to and 

 including 4.2 per cent milk. 



We further find that milk be sold by distributors in the Detroit 

 area at the following prices: 



IJetail quarts, delivered, 14 cents. 



lletail pints, delivered, 8 cents. 



^^'holesale quarts, delivered, 13 cents. 



Wholesale pints, delivered, 7 cents. 



Bulk, gallon, delivered, 44 cents. 



Eetail at selling stations per quart, 11 cents, with a five cent charge 

 for bottle to be refunded on its return. 



December 1st, 1917. 

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