with federal suit
farms were licensed to sell
pasteurized milk on the
farm; 103 had permission to
sell raw milk, and nine had
permits for the sale of goats’,
milk. A Chester County dairy
farm is currently being
reviewed for a permit to sell
its own pasteurized jugged
milk.
Foust revealed that when
the Federal Order first
expanded into the area, his
office received a number of
calls and complaints. Many
were on the subject of having
to file reports and or pay
assessments. His office has
nothing to do with either.
Countering Click’s fear of
possibly being forced out of
business, Shine asserts that
Order 4 has provisions to
allow dairy farmers to sell
their own product and that
be has never heard of anyone
wanting to change it. The
administrator declined to
speculate on Feltner’s
comment, however Feltner,
who left office' when the
Carter Administration
arrived in Washington, could
not be readied for an ex
planation of his gloomy
forecast for juggers.
Click is a strong beliver in
free enterprise and direct
marketing. The in
fringement by the federal
government is something he
believes the “average
consumer ought to know
about and tell his
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congressman.” He belongs
to the Maryland-
Pennsylvania Direct
Marketing Association and
warns that if direct
marketing of milk is done
away with, other areas will
follow.
On the subject of direct
marketing, Click questions
why “the housewife should
be compelled to pay more for
milk to have it trucked to
Philadelphia at union costs
and processed by union labor
when I have a cheaper and
better product right here.”
He retails his milk for $1.28
per gallon. He and his family
milk' 100 Holsteins at their
“Maplehofe Farms Dairy,”
south of Quarryville. Weekly
sales amount to about 3000
gallons to an estimated 4000
customers.
Irritated by federal
auditors who have visited his
store, Click is quick to point
out he has nothing against
inspectors. But be vigorously
opposes- the searching of
such items as checkbooks,
inlcuding those of children
and wives. Click charges ‘
ihat such procedures have
taken place at some jugging
operations in the past.
York County jugger Roger
Perry told Lancaster Far
ming in a telephone in
terview last Summer that he
believes some of the dif
ficulties arising for juggers
may be due to the com
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petition they generate for
dairy cooperatives. Click
shares that view and is
suspicious of cooperatives
maneuvering in the market
to squeeze out small dairies,
including juggers.
Cooperatives, on the other
hand, are faced with
marketing problems each
time a daily goes out of
business. Neither
cooperative officials nor
Federal Order ad
ministrators view juggers as
significant competition since
they make up just a small
portion of the market.
Furthermore, there is no
way juggers can be expected
to supply milk to central
urban areas, where co-ops
market the bulk of their
milk.
The Federal Order people
find it essential, however, to
require the filing of reports
so that the dairy retail
market is spread evenly
among all producers in a
given area. Their argument
is that if a jugger were
allowed to buy all the milk he
wanted above 10,000 lbs.
per month, his retailing area
could theoretically expand
substantially and thereby
offer unfair competition to
dairymen who are not selling
their milk directly.
Previous violations of the
10,000 pound purchase quota
assessments for some
juggers. When in violation.
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An estimated 3000 gallons of milk 4000 customers. Jan Wagner, above,
are sold weekly at the Maplehofe is just one of them. She's accepting
Dairy Store. Owner Aaron Click her change from clerk Linda Fisher,
claims he has in the neighborhood of
they’re assessed for all the
milk on the farm, not just
what is bought. In some
cases that assessment was
rung up to more than $50,000.
Ironically, most juggers
believe the 10,000 pound per
month provision is adequate
in most cases, according to
Perry. That loophole exists
because juggers aren’t
expected to adjust their daily
production to daily sales. It
can’t be done, say juggers,
like Click, and the Federal
Order people recognize that.
Some juggers speculate on
the worth of Federal Orders
to dairy cooperatives,
claiming that they’re
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overpricing milk with their
contracts. They also
question the validity of
political contributions, some
of which have brought a
number of cooperative of
ficials before the courts.
An independent lot, some,
juggers picture themselves
as free businessmen in an
ideal sense. They, like Click,
believe they can do as they
please with their awn milk,
so long as it meets quality
standards. According to
officials at milk cooperatives
and at the office of the
Market Administrator, no
one wants to deny a
dairyman’s right to sell his
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own milk. But they do want
to protect other producers
and other dairies from
market infringements. Glick
acknowledges, for example,
that when he opened his
retail store in 1974, other
marketing outlets in the area
were definitely hurt.
He markets about 80 per
cent of his milk through his
store, while the balance is
sold at prevailing Class II
prices to Dietrich’s Dairy in
Reading. That, like all other
production and marketing
phases of his operation is
entirely within the law, Glick
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