198 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



continued presence of this milk production in the locality 

 where called for, naturally suggests its adoption by other 

 farmers of the vicinity. Lines of transportation afford 

 sure and quick communication, and so the business is in- 

 vited out. Another farmer catches on because others are in 

 it. Thus the circle tends to widen. This holds true around 

 all milk markets, whether in the smaller towns or around 

 the great cities. The extensioa goes on, till at last produc- 

 tion exceeds demand. It is doubtful if a milk market can 

 be found in a town or city anywhere, where the trade is not 

 overcrowded with the product. This overproduction is the 

 bottom cause of the continuous strife between producers and 

 contractors, of which so much is heard. " Milk wars," the 

 records of whose bloodless battles lill so much space in the 

 columns of the agricultural press of your State, would never 

 have been heard of had not the supply of milk exceeded the 

 demand. Both arbitration and concession fail to establish 

 permanent and lasting peace, for the same reason, and must 

 ever so fail so long as there is milk that must be sold, and 

 that knows no other outlet. Milk producers' unions may 

 succeed in unloading a measure of the burdens upon the 

 other side ; but they can never establish a lasting peace, or 

 bring about a reign of unbroken harmony, till they strike at 

 the bottom cause of the unpleasantness. 



Too Much Milk. 

 There is too much milk offered for sale. There are too 

 many farmers engaged in the business of making sale-milk. 

 It is my purpose at this time to call attention to other uses 

 for milk than that of its sale as a whole product, and con- 

 sider the money inducements there found for diverting it 

 into such channels. Farmers make milk for sale because 

 they have been doing so, and because their neighl)ors are in 

 that line of business. They continue in the business for the 

 reason that they suppose there is no other disposition of it 

 so profitable. If it prove there are other uses for milk quite 

 as remunerative, farmers have only to be informed what they 

 are, when they will turn their attention in that direction, 

 in ■ place of wastino; their enerijies in strus'S'les with the 

 contractors. 



