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TL t ^ HAROU) CROSS, Times Staff Reporter ( t c Times today discloses an amazing condition that has existed tor months in Lake county, involving 17,000 members of the Milk producers Co-operative Marketing Company in Indiana. Illinois and Wisconsin, and affectmg five million milk consumers of Northern Indiana and the Chicago district. The evidence that is published exclusively by this paper was secured by a Times reporter during a week’s investigation.Seventeen hundred and ten 8-gallon cans of fresh milk were poured e c^ty sewers at Gary and Indiana Harbor yesterday by the Milk Producers Co-operative Marketing Company. This destruction of milk is a daily occurrence and has been going on for months. luring the month of April, between 500 and 600 cans of milk were destroyed each day at Indiana Harbor alone. At the offices of the company in Gary yesterday it was admitted by the Indiana manager of the com-has bccn J’400 can* a day.TOMB FROM HIGH PRJCEI^JkND ACCREDITED COWSThe milk that the Milk Producers’ Co-operative Marketing Company dumps into the sewer is the output of dairy farms from the state line to South Bend, Ind., including territory surrounding Valparaiso, Michigan City, LaPorte, Wheeler, Gary, Hammond, Crown Point, Lowell and parts of adjoining counties. The milk comes from high priced and accredited cows. The farmer is paid $1.75 a can for the milk. It is shipped by motor truck, mterurban and steam train to the “surplus milk stations at Gary and East Chicago, where the butter fat is re-moved and the milk destroyed.No attempt is made to convert the milk into cheese or other byproducts, or to condense and can it. The company’s representatives declare that there is no profit for the company in the manufacturing of cheese.Fourteen hundred and fifty cans of this milk were skimmed and destroyed at Gary yesterday.Two hundred and sixty cans were poured into the sewer at IndianaHarbor.mm* mm ^
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East Chicago Times
East Chicago, Indiana, US
Thu, May 12, 1921
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