azine Charges 'Milk Monopoly
the May edition of the Progressive maga
-1 ” fril , r national dairy chains with helping
d ° d niv in the Milkshed ”
‘Monop are Fore most Dairies, Jacksonville,
New York City; Beatrice Food
L„,<?old Products), Chicago; and National
s Sltest-Kraft), of New York City.
’ by Sherwood
the four dairy The article contended that
jen charged by f— j n Louisville, Ky , New
Trade Commis- York City, Oklahoma City,
ilations of the and Dayton, O,
ti-Merger) Act, dairy manufacturers in al
■al Trade Com- mos t every case received
which prohibits more money for processing
titive practices. m j|k than the farmer did for
ane said that producing it.
;aders, m their 2 —The big New York City
useless cycle o m jj] £ strike of ’s7—in which
th, and merger, q qqq nnd-9Atlanuc region
record sales farmers resorted to milk
while farm pne- dumping, dynamining, and
lined and con- gumpjgy— was prompted be
have advanc- causo farmers were getting
only nine cents for a quart
the crisis m of milk while the housewife
dairy picture was paying 25% cents The
detailed account article charged the middle
in practices m men took 16 cents
Illinois, Oklaho- 3 —Florida has the highest
Texas', Kentuc- retail rmjk prices in the na
sconsi'n, Miss- tion- because Bordens, Fore
iie Mid-Atlantic most, and Sealtest control 59
\tral regions per cent of milk sales m Jack
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I POTATO GROWERS SAY
about controlling blight with
■THANE M-22
srrels more per acre.”
ithane M-22 on about 10 acres
; during 1958 with very satisfy-
During August, about 9 inches
; and late blight became a seri
to Aroostook County potato
eel that Dithane M-22 passed'
it by giving us better blight con
e had with the nabam fungicide
e balance of the crop. In addi- '
e excellent disease control, ,we
irease in yield amounting to 30
' acre.
lusier, KVL FARMS, PRESQUE I_SLE, MAINE
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. . prefer working
with DITHANE M-22.”
Dithane M-22 helped us
grow a good clean crop of
d! potatoes last season.
Weather conditions dur-
ing 1958 were very favor
ight and it was present in the
t Dithane lVt-22 kept our vines
harvest. We would also prefer
*h Dithane M-22 to other ma
is convenient to handle and
ily
Son, R o ?I, BATH, PA.
s are the same from all over the
outstanding potato blight con
.er yields .., ease of handling
’' ’ ' an d demiite plans to use
on a larger scale this sea
■ aven t yet discovered the
outages of this improved maneb
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sonvillc, 60 per cent in Tam
pa and 36 per cent in Miami.
The article further stated
that farm surpluses were pil
ing up in Florida because the
price of milk was out of re
ach of many housewives
4—The Big Four of the da
iry industry today control 20
per cent of all fluid milk sa
les in the United States and
have made more than a quar
ter of a billion dollars in pro
fits after taxes since 1955
while farmers have been go
ing broke.
s—Dairy “price wars,” —
such as the one which affect
ed Dallas, Texas, several
years ago—have been driv
ing local dairymen out of
business The article conten
ded that Foremost Dairies
was able to finance a price
war in Dallas because of pro-'
fits made in states such as
Florida
6—The big dairy chains
favor supermarket chains
with the “promotional al
lowances” which they do not
give to “Mom and Pop” gro
cery stores
The article cited the testi
mony of Fred Lambert, of the
Phone CHestview 3-1687
-'i i i exceptional control of late blight.”
I used Uithanb M-22 on my entire crop of
certified seed potatoes during the 1958
season and I'feel that the performance of
the product was outstanding. During the
month of August, we had an excessive
amount,of rain in Aroostook County and
late blight sapidly developed in the area.
Despite these severe disease conditions,
Dithane M-22 prevented any late blight
development in my crop. Under the cir
cumstances, I feel that 'Dithane M-22
gave me exceptional control of late blight.
Athell Banks, MARS HILL, MAINE
.. biggest crop I
ever produced.”
I used Dithanb M-22 on
my potato crop exclu
sively during 1958 and
harvested the biggest and
best quality crop I ever
produced. The crop was clean and free of
blight in spite of favorable disease weather
experienced 'during the’growing season. I
find its ease of handling and mixing a real
advantage and certainly plan to use it
again next season
Ernest R. Ringer, R D. #l, ALLENTOWN, PA.
Dithanb 18 a trademark, Reg U S.Pat Off
and in •principal foreign countnet.
Ch> micuh for igrhullure
ROHM & HAAS
COMPANY
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Phone Lane. £X 2*2659
Independent of
Missouri, taken before the
Patman House Committee on
Small Business, to tche effect
that “a conspiracy exists be
tween chain stores and chain
dairy companies ”
Lambert said, “The large
dairies are forcing the price
of horne-d-Tucred milk up m
cider tnat house-wives buy
all their milk at chamstores
where the milk of the large
dairies is sold . There is a
conspiracy between the large
grocery chamstores to mono
polize the distribution of mi
lk . . financed by the large
daries ’’
The article said that “the
plight of the dairy farmer is
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Lancaster Farming#
Saturday, May 9. 1959 —7
surpassed only by the death
agonies of the small milk
manufacturer Twenty years
ago he knew each farmer,
who, in the early morning
trucked his milk cans to his
Main Street door, and he
generally gave the farmer
the best price he could and
made a profit
“Today, the small milk
manufacturer is -being
bought out, sometimes forc
ed out The new proprietors
are absentee landlords, run
ning the dairy in Ashtabula
or Gainsville from the cor
porate towers of New York
and Chicago ”
“They do not see the face
of the dairy farmer when he
brings his milk to market.
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