212 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTKICT OF COLUMBIA. 



More expensive. (Health officer Providence, R. I.) 



Much higher than raw milk at 10 cents a quart, the Richmond price. 

 (Health officer Richmond, Va.) 



I do not know. (Health officer Rochester, N. Y.) 



I can not answer this question intelligently, since we have many prices on 

 canned milk. (Health officer Seattle, Wash.) 



Unknown. (Health officer Syracuse, N. Y.) 



About the same, maybe a little cheaper; say, a cent a quart. (Health 

 officer Topeka, Kans.) 



Generally higher, I think. (Sharon Dairy, District of Columbia.) 



This depends entirely on the price; but on an average, when they are 

 increased to equal volumes and containing the same amount of ratio of solids, 

 their cost is approximately the same, and in some cases lower. (Borden's 

 Condensed Milk Co., New York, N. Y.) 



More costly. (Dr. V. C. Vaughan, Ann Arbor, Mich.) 



About the same as ordinary (not inspected) new milk or commercially pas- 

 teurized milk. (Dr. S. C. Prescott, Boston, Mass.) 



Higher in price, but their advertising would lead you to believe otherwise. 

 (J. M. Houston, White Cross Milk Co., Washington, D. C.) 



Greater in price. (Health officer Wheeling, W. Va.) 



Unable to answer. (Dr. Samuel McC. Hamill, Philadelphia, Pa.) 



Cheaper by 30 per cent. (Health officer Scranton, Pa.) 



QUESTION 10. Have you seen any evidence or indication of a milk trust or com- 

 bine to control raw-milk production or milk supply of the District of Co- 

 lumbia or elsewhere f 



ANSWERS. 



The department has no information as to such a trust or combine. The local 

 milk dealers have an organization, but this is not regarded as a trust or com- 

 bine in the usual sense of three terms. (Chief Bureau of Animal Industry.) 



"No. (Surgeon General U. S. Army.) 



No. (Surgeon General U. S. Navy.) 



No. (Surgeon General Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.) 



Not prepared to answer. (Dr. William H. Park, New York, N. Y.) 



I have not. (Dr. Henry L. Coit, Newark, N. J.) 



A milk exchange in New York fixes the price paid to the producer. (Dr. R. G. 

 Freeman, New York, N. Y.) 



Some indication of such a combination in Boston. (Dr. C. E. A. Winslow, 

 New York, N. Y.) 



Such combines have been attempted. (Health officer Ann Arbor, Mich.) 



We have heard remarks to this effect, but it did not seem to materialize. 

 (Health officer Atlanta, Ga.) 



I have not seen it in Baltimore. (Health officer Baltimore, Md.) 



No. (Health officer Birmingham, Ala.) 



No. (Health officer Bismarck, N. Dak.) 



Yes. (Health officer Cleveland, Ohio.) 



Not in Columbus, Ohio. (Health officer Columbus, Ohio.) 



No. (Health officer Jacksonville, Fla.) 



We have no evidence at this point, though this answer does not apply to 

 other localities. Milk here retails at 8 cents per quart. (Health officer Kansas 

 City, Mo.) 



Don't know anything about it. (Health officer Lynchburg, Va.) 



An attempt in this city, but frowned down. (Health officer Portland, Oreg.) 



Not in Providence, R. I. (Health officer Providence, R. I.) 



I can answer only for Richmond. Two large concerns handle about 60 per 

 cent of all milk on this market. I would not regard this at present as a trust. 

 They have merely built up good business. (Health officer Richmond, Va.) 



No; but I have heard that the pasteurizers are controlled. (Health officer 

 Rochester, N. Y.) 



We sent one gentleman to jail for two months for conspiring with others to 

 raise the price of milk some two years since. We believe that the milk trust 

 collapsed at that time. (Health officer Seattle, Wash.) 



No. (Health officer Syracuse, N. Y.) 



No. (Straus Laboratory, Washington, D. C.) 



I have no such evidence. (John Thomas, Ednor, Md., president Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Association.) 



