| Show MILK RATE TOO HIGH comment on the action of the dealers I 1 I 1 THEIR REASONS REAMS DISCUSSED the excuse that feed Is iao high as to justify the increase attacked cost of 0 feeding coat out little moro more than last year and not nol enough to justify ft a 25 per cent advance according to produce P to dealers the cleanliness reason tho the combination by which it Is proposed after tho the 1 t of 0 december to raise tho the price of milk 2 25 per cent 1113 aroused the attention of tile the whole city anti and in numerous nume ious camps indignation li expressed under our modern system L of living milk has become almost as essential as bicad find and consumers ale aie at a less to understand N why by there could possibly be any reason for such art an it Is urged liy by those these who ulso have haie been instrumental 1 in forming the com bombin bin that one of of the reasons tor for the move Is that cow reed feed Is touch ranch higher than tharl I 1 it t has been for or sevc ev ral cr yeam in fact one lie dealer ila has gone so tar far as aa to say that hay which could be bought for tle a scar car t igo ago now costs ta 5 per ton and bran that then ilion coit coat so 50 cents Is now yo 90 c cents e it if IN NOT JUSTIFIED hald aid uvell d ivell kno n produce dealer last evening 1 I am not in the I 1 inho ilk bubl nes less but I 1 have beail mixed up lip RIM 1 l E to such fin an as to be able to flay in unequivocal terne that tile the 5 statements of milkmen milkman I 1 apoi led in fit tills r noi nines tribune are filse fale in the if fait N t it Is fine liay isay slid and bran and other food necess my to 10 keep cows CONS in this city have increased ini inc leased teased to some extent tills dui ing in the tha past year but the advance till mill not c 10 per cent tin under any circumstances and many of those ho he keep cows as they should hould bo be kept will find that tile the ct cost sl but very little more than it 1 l vas mas twelve anthe ako ago As a matter of fact there are few COTS kept in tills this ity by dalr men N early dearly 0 all 1 the col delivered hered by the so earld cre creabell amell s and dahis 14 1 brought in irom the hie various surrounding to tort toa a ns ne the eor fans I 1 ale aie milked ill i the lie a lei the fluid Is carted to the nearest railroad sturlon thence hauled to the ell city so po that it 1 is jus fust at I 1 possible 0 isible that the ri alk ik set oil fur fr brcak fast hoa hiss been faur hours in the can ore ere it reaches the life con consumer milk ilk practically costs no moro to produce now than ft did it year ao ago the faill un weather has ho enabled the cattle to wherever Nho rever they oared eared an aal the amount of other rood fond that tills has ben been fell fed to to thern Is 18 go BO small sit aa not tu to bo be worthy of serinus consideration in making i ates it II 19 ts not contended that thai th ill fic fiel glit rates on milk have taken A sudden ind and unexpected ursuala up aid tendency I 1 bran has been scales scaife hut but there I 1 has hae been much frozen wheat throw n i upon the galket mote moio thin sufficient suHl clent to take its place and considered it is much cheaper than bran tile tho advance in the thep pt lee ilce of milk lists lias br bren been en made not because it II is ili necessary tut but because dealers deiler 3 have imbibed the life idea that they have alls a cinel of the lead pipe variety JF IF PHYSICIAN one of the silliest reasons ever advanced by ony any association or individual in connection with ill the raising of prices on olt milk said a well known knouss doctor last cl evening Is that under apih con dallon LIons the purity of the milk would be increased and that the sanitary conditions surround surrounding I 1 ng th the production of the fluid would lie be Imp improved this Is an adm admission wElon such as would hardly hilve have been expect expected od cen front from it a rn milkman k roan it means if anything that the so milk now being abeln delivered to the people a of tills this city Is filthy because of lla its sur and the dealers ha hao hae e the he nerve to virtually Mr lually say our wilk milk has been ball bad in ili the th past hut but with th ill additional dit ional adment ay ment of 25 por per bent ire w v hlll ill site pie to it that it Is washed and made clean tor for four our uye utie HE KNOW cut amut as a me matter ater of fact the average stage dal dairyman ryman of salt fait lake has little rip op pei ty to gain any knowledge knowle dei of me surroundings of the places here his hie milk Is produced because it may como come from one county or another and hta his twenty gallon ealton can may contain lo L 10 o far as ho he knob milk all t train from ten or twelve different cows who milked them chere rhen ft hen and how bow lie he may n not 0 t linow know find and it ill becomes milkman milkmen milk iners an and d dalry dairymen meli to ascribe the advance in milk to the fact til thai at cow feed hia has gone up a few tents per hundred and may mav remain at that figure for a while the advance in milk should have been in plo proportion portion to the increased cost coal of food no male it costs the average farmer who sells bis big milk to the dahl dairies only a trifle trifel moru more now than it lid did a lear ago and as Is rell ell known knain but little ot at the th milk sold in this city Is produced alere JAY KEEP HEEP PRICE DOWN A dealer is ho a was seen econ last evening had small hope that tile the proposed combination n amount to much com has been beef very keen in the past lic he said and such a state of if al alfairi fairs noum p probably be continued in indefinitely his only reason lie he said for joining in the movement was to make an all effort e to do away avay with the credit business linee busie put milk on a cash basis and MC ito can sell at 5 cents and will we wont lose money angott |
