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American Agriculturist, January 12, 192^ 
The Multiple Price Plan 
(Continued from page 26) 
to sell his product for butter making seems 
altogether too good to be true. In early 
November the price of creamery extras 
(92 score) in New York was about 52 cents 
per pound. Under present costs for manufac- 
ture, supplies, freight and commission if this 
butter netted the farmer 47 cents he was doing 
very well. A hundred pounds of 8% milk 
skilfully manufactured may be expected to 
yield about $3.55 lbs. of finished butter, the 
increase being accounted for mainly by retained 
,moisture and added salt,'which should net the 
dairyman about $1.67 as compared with a 
gross market milk price of $3.45. 
Of course it is only fair to say that for the 
purposes of illustration I have selected an 
extreme case. If I had made the comparison 
on the basis of, say, 4.6% milk, the inequality 
would have been rather less glaring although 
still bad enough. It is also true that the income 
of the butter factory patron would be increased 
by the value of the skim milk and that he would 
have less annoyance from stable requirements 
and bacterial counts. Still, granting all this, 
I believe the price recommended was not based 
on equity. No man living within 500 miles of 
New Xork City and who was patronizing a 
butter or cheese factory heard of this proposed 
market milk price without conceiving a 
lively ambition to get a little piece of it. It was 
a magnet that could not fail to attract milk 
even from remote and difficultly available 
sources and there was sufficient non-pooled milk 
obtainable to break what was practically an 
artificial price. I think the League showed 
wisdom in promptly recognizing the facts by 
a somewhat drastic revision of quotations. The 
fact that such'change was confined entirely to 
Class 1 milk shows that the trouble was right 
theme and not in any general weakness of the 
dairy markets. Even now, the lowest Sheffield 
price of $2.58 is high enough to attract any 
butter or cheese milk that can reach New York. 
The milk supply of the Big Town increases 
faster than the demand owing to several 
causes. It is not owing to an increase in the 
number of cows, because the cows of the state 
have remained practically constant for fifty 
years. But they are much better cows to 
begin with and they are far more wisely and 
liberally fed than in the old days, but the 
development of knowledge regarding the pro¬ 
duction of good milk, together with pasteuriza¬ 
tion and motor truck transportation, has 
brought the remote, back from the rail, sec¬ 
tions of the state into the market in a way un¬ 
foreseen even ten years ago. So it comes to 
pass that the greatest city in the world has no 
special difficulty in getting an abundant daily- 
milk supply. The wonderful thing is how- much 
is left over for manufacturing purposes. 
New York City is geographically so situated 
that a control of her milk markets would seem 
to be relatively easy. Set one leg of a pair of 
dividers on the city and sweep a circle of 300 
miles radius around it and within that circle 
you have practically the entire territory from 
which milk comes to town. But notice that 
one-third of this area lies in the Atlantic 
Ocean where just now there may be some 
bootleg booze but no milk. Then nearly a 
quarter of the circle lies in New England but 
these states have a relatively unimportant 
agriculture and are so crowded with industrial 
cities that they take from northeastern New 
York for their own use more milk by far than 
they contribute to our supply. Another quarter 
of this circle includes Philadelphia (which 
receives considerable quantities of New York 
State milk), and also Baltimore and Washing¬ 
ton, both of which lie in a region of relatively 7 
small dairy development. So in the end it is 
only the northwest quadrant of that great 
'circle to which the city may turn for her milk 
and yet so wonderful is the dairy development 
within that area that out of its abundance it 
supplies up-state towns, greater New York 
and the New Jersey addition and has milk left 
over for almost any purpose. 
Just now we are crying out that the dairy 
markets are demoralized. What we really 
mean is that the liquid milk market has been 
made so attractive that it is automatically- 
getting more milk than it can use. Dairy mar¬ 
kets as a whole are probably in the best shape 
they have been since the big slump of 1920. 
Last week in New York “Creamery extras," 
were 56 cents per pound—a mighty good price 
as judged by previous standards but not very- 
attractive after you have ’ once learned to 
think of milk in terms of, say, $3.00 per hundred¬ 
weight. 
Unquestionably the League has accomplished 
some wonderful results. Backed by 7 the 
enthusiastic loyalty of very many of our best 
dairy-men it has succeeded for a considerable 
time in maintaining a somewhat artificial price 
for market- milk—a price I believe higher than 
was justified by underly-ing economic condi¬ 
tions—a price I mean that allowing for all 
factors was higher than a parity 7 with other 
forms of milk. For a time it has seemed 
(Continued on page lj.2) 
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