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of the man that I was selling- to right along, and after a week 

 or two I would get a notice that I need not ship any more milk. 

 No further explanation. That is all I knew about it. Go down 

 and see about it. What is the matter with the milk? Well, 

 they will complain that the milk is a little soft; that it came 

 a little bit short in quality. So I would have to go to the 

 next man along on my road, who perhaps might be a friend 

 that I had been doing business with, and perhaps I would 

 tell him that that man had thrown up my milk. Now I have 

 had this occur. Throw up your milk, did he? Yes, he did. 

 Well, did he make any complaint? Yes. He told me that 

 the milk was not good. He did? Yes. Well, I can tell you 

 what was the matter. It was the half a cent a quart less that 

 he bought his milk for. Your milk was good. He told me 

 it was good, but he found out that he could get his milk just 

 a half a cent a quart less and so he threw up your milk with 

 scarcely any notice to you. Now what can you do with such 

 a situation as that? Carry out his agreement? Not a bit of 

 it. You could not find, if you tried, the vestige of an old white 

 horse to attach. He had no responsibility back of him. You 

 can get a judgment against them but it will not do you any 

 good. * 



I am not saying that all dealers are of that kind. There 

 has been some improvement. This matter has been pushed so 

 far that there are people in the city of New York, milk dealers 

 and milk consumers, who today are ready to pay a reasonable 

 price, but where there is one of that kind there are five hundred 

 that are not ready, and that are ready to take advantage of 

 every possible point to take it out of the farmer and increase 

 their own profit. 



I am reminded of what Commissioner Brown, of the state 

 of New York, said at one time. I was asked by him to appear 

 before a committee and give my views in regard to a standard 

 for milk. I said to Commissioner Brown, when he asked me 

 to state my individual opinion in regard to it, how can you do 



