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American Agriculturist, June 28, 1924 
The Milk Situation 
Some Remedy Must Be Found and Found Quickly 
T HE League Cooperative Association 
has announced the pool price for May 
of $1,485 per hundred pounds for 3 per¬ 
cent. milk at the 201-210 mile zone. From 
this sum there is deducted 83^2 cents for 
expenses and 10 cents for certificates of 
indebtedness, leaving a cash price . to 
farmers for May milk of $1.30. Counting 
the certificates of indebtedness, the price 
to farmers is $1.40. This is about 3 
cents a quart. 
This is the lowest the dairy farmers in 
this section have received in a great 
many years. Even in the summer of 
1916 prices farmers actually received 
were not much lower, and of course their 
costs were much less. For instance, in 
March, 1916, the price to the farmer for 
3 per cent, milk was $1.60; for April it 
was $1.31; and for May, $1.06. Yet 
those prices were regarded so ruinously 
low that they led to the greatest uprising 
of dairymen this country has ever known 
in the strike which began October 1, 
1916. 
Looking back to the July 29th issue of 
American Agriculturist of that time, 
we find this comment on dairy prices: 
“Never before has there been such an insistent 
demand among dairymen and their followers 
for better prices for market milk. Meeting 
after meeting has been held in milk sections 
attempting to solve the query, how to get a 
better system for distribution of market 
milk.” 
The Wicks Committee, investigating 
the situation for the New York State 
legislature in 1916, reported that unless 
conditions changed dairying, would dis¬ 
appear from Eastern farms in the same 
way that the sheep industry had gone. 
Yet we face a still worse situation in 
this territory to-day. What is going to 
be done about it; and who is going to do 
it? Without any doubt at all, if even 
good dairymen stay in the business, the 
price must go up, but in putting that 
price up some fundamental economic 
principles and facts must be kept in mind, 
and we must face those facts even though 
they are disagreeable. One of the first is 
to remember that we have gone on in¬ 
creasing production of market milk in 
this territory at an alarming rate. The 
territory has been extended farther and 
farther from the market by better trans¬ 
portation methods and by the more 
attractive prices of market milk, and 
much of the milk also that used to be 
absorbed in the small creameries and 
cheese factories has been improved in 
quality and either is already in the 
market, or stands ready to go there as 
soon as the price gets materially above 
the cheese market. 
In Vermont, the independent coopera¬ 
tive creameries stand ready to ship at 
least five carloads daily of market milk 
into the New York market the moment 
the price of Class I will justify this move¬ 
ment. The same situation prevails in 
the Boston market. A report from the 
five largest Boston dealers to their milk 
administrator shows that these five 
dealers received three million pounds 
more milk in March this year than they 
did for the same month a year ago. 
The cream situation is also demoralized 
in the New York market. Under modern 
shipping conditions cream can be sent 
long distances and just as soon as the 
cream, which by the way is made from 
Grade B milk, reaches any kind of a 
worthwhile price it begins to flow in from 
Western territory. 
Added to the other complications are 
the good pastures which have increased 
production; while at the same time the 
rain and cold weather which made the 
pastures good have lessened the con¬ 
sumption of ice cream and milk among 
consumers. 
We have no mind to be pessimistic in 
stating these facts. Our only point is 
that if any remedy is to be worked out it 
must be based on the situation as it is, 
nqt as we would like to have it. 
One of the brighter sides of the milk 
market is the strong position of butter. 
On June 16, 92-score butter was quoted 
at 42 cents in New York City; a year 
ago it was 38^2 cents. State whole milk 
flats full grass cheese on the same date 
this year was 20 cents; last year it was 
2434 cents. 
We have a letter before us from a man 
who has been an expert student qf the 
milk situation for many years. Comment¬ 
ing on it, he says: 
“As a matter of fact, everyone is cutting 
prices and they will continue to do so just so 
long as the market on fluid remains above a 
certain differential over the value of milk put 
into butter or cheese, unless farmers all get 
together in some organization. This I do not 
believe can be accomplished without the crea¬ 
tion of a new association, and such organization 
would have to have at least 90 per cent, of the 
farmers. In other words, create a clearing 
house to which all operators, including dealers, 
cooperative plants, cooperative associations, 
etc., would report the utilization, of their milk. 
If it is above the average, they would pay into 
the clearing house by one check the amount 
that their higher utilization would require, 
and this money would be used to pay to other 
operators, whose utilization was below the 
average, enough to enable them, with an 
inefficient operation, to pay a price to their 
producers determined by the average utiliza¬ 
tion. This would show up the relative effi¬ 
ciency of the various organizations handling the 
farmers’ product and would mean the eventual 
survival of those who could handle the product 
most economically, and at the same time 
eliminate those .who could not.” 
Such a plan as outlined above was 
suggested by the representatives of at 
least two different organizations at the 
last meeting of the Committee of Fifteen. 
It was their thought that the present 
organizations could remain as they are 
{Continued on page 595) 
Read Silo Character 
As you do a man's 
Y OU read a man’s character in 
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In the front of the Unadilla Silo, 
you can see many practical, valuable 
advantages that speak of the 
thoroughness, care and thought 
with which every detail of the 
whole silo is worked out. 
Its continuous opening; water¬ 
tight, air-tight, non-sticking doors; 
wide, safe, easy combination door 
fasteners and ladder; door front 
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Box B Unadilla, N.Y. 
FOR 50 YEARS 
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HAVE LED ALL IMITATORS. 
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