Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-08-24 | Page 4 | Milk Prices in Chicago

MILK PRICES IN CHICAGO. Chicago, Aug. 24. Milk In Chicago, during the winter months, will remain re-main at eight cents a quart unless tho , wholesalers decide to insist upon a. raise. Yesterday tho Milk Producers' association, asso-ciation, reporting dairymen from Illinois, Il-linois, Indiana and Wisconsin, met and set the price of milk for the win-tor win-tor months from October to March and, although a move was made to Increase the price to the wholesalers, it was finally agreed to that the same prices agreed to last year will remain for the coming six monthB. The prices set by the association at the meeting was placed on tho basis of 100 pounds of milk and makes an ) average of ?1 08 pr 100 pounds, or 4 1-8 cents a quart to tho wholefial-ern. wholefial-ern. It is the custom of the association, associa-tion, representing 4,000 dairymen to fix tho prices twice yearly. j Yesterday's prices arc as follows Octobor. $1.90 cer 100 pounds; November, No-vember, $2 per 100; Decomber, $2.0G per 100: January; .12.05; February, .$2, and March, $1.90. i