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Show Chicago Distributors Taking Census of Having Babies or Invalids Who Must Be Supplied. FARMERS INCORPORATE Will Invade City in Competition Competi-tion With the Association Health Commissioner Calls Conference to Settle Controversy. Chicago, April 7 The seriousness of the milk shortage in Chicago aB a result of the larger distributors refusal re-fusal to grant dairy farmers or northern north-ern Illinois an Increase of 22 1-2 cents a hundred pounds was revealed today when the distributors began taking a census of families having babies or Invalids, with a view of supplying them first. One of the largo distributors and several smaller ones yesterday acceded ac-ceded to the demands of tho producers, produc-ers, agreeing to pay $1.55 a hundred pounds for milk and deliveries to them wore resumed. No settlement of the -controversy is in sight, however, and it is said that Chicago's milk supply, when normal, is nearly 2,000,000 quarts dally, will be curtailed even more today. to-day. Farmers to Incorporate. A group of farmers from tho city of Elgin, Illinois, havo applied at Springfield for incorporation papers for a $500,000 corporation to invade Chicago in competition with the distributors. dis-tributors. John D. Robertson, chief health commissioner, today Invited representatives represen-tatives of the fanners and distributors distribut-ors to meet with him in tho hopo of 'bringing about a settlement of tho controversy Though both sides agreed to attend the conference, Indications were that neither sido would vield much if anything. any-thing. nn |