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Show ADA Head Discusses Dairy J Subsidies; Future Program Don't look now, but two pennies are hidden in every quart of milk you get, because the price you are paying for a quart of milk is about two cents under the cost of putting put-ting it on your table. Today the government is paying .ror those two "hidden pennies." But sooner or la Lot you'll face the matter of paying for your own milk bill in full. This warning was sounded recently re-cently before the Denver Milk Producers Association at its annual meeting in the Shirley Savoy Hotel, Ho-tel, in Denver, Professor A. J. Mor. ris, USAC extension dairy manufacturing manu-facturing specialists, reported today. to-day. Owen M. ' Richards, Chicago, manager of the American Dairy Association, cautioned the dairy farmers that the buying public does not realize that, under the subsidy method, it is getting its milk for approximately two cents i under production and distribution costs. Stressing that he was neither for nor against subsidies, Richards pointed out that the government, as a war-time measure against inflation, in-flation, had chosen to employ a subsidy rather than to ,fix a milk price ceiling high enough to cover production and distribution. Richards said dairymen are concerned con-cerned because consumers are generally gen-erally unaware of the ''artificially low price" and he expressed hope that the public "will understand the facts 'so that dairy farmers won't take it on the chin when the subsidy eventually comes off." "Sooner or later," he reminded consumers, "The subsidy will be lifted end folks will have to pay their own milk bill in full instead of "letting Uncle do it." and there will be no more discounts at Uncle Un-cle Sam's milk bar." " Dairy farmers should have fair post-war prices for the sake of the national welfare, Richards cn-M 'hpn.ip nprirnlhiirp ha.spr on a thriving livestock industry, is the foundation of our economy." "America's future," he said, "lies in the soil, the fountain of our national wealth, our production and our jobs. "The war has run our national debt to nearly 300 billion dollars, placing a mortgage on nearly eyerything we possess above the ground. War has destroyed life. War has destroyed wealth. But if war destroyed every material possession, pos-session, we could go back to earth and build anew, new buildings, new machines, new monuments to mankind's progress. "For the soil is our source of life. Destroy it and we perish. Save it and we have, firmly in our grasp, the means of life, for prosperity pros-perity and for a greater America." And in extacting riches of the soil, Richards asserted, America's 28 million dairy cows ''perform an incomparable task." "Cows are the most efficient converters of soil products into human food," he said. "They pro. duce the farmer's greatest cash crop, account for a fifth of all farm income, and stand as the quiet guardians of the soil that holds our future. By making soil-retaining soil-retaining grasslands profitable to farmers, they combat the erosion that costs America four billion dollars a year. "And everywhere, they restore and rebuild the land's productiveness. productive-ness. Everywhere dairying flourishes, flour-ishes, the soil is richer and more beautiful, the farmers more pros-peous pros-peous and better able to contribute contrib-ute to a thriving, growing America rooted deep in the earth, our present pre-sent and our future." |
