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YESTERDAY A If AVERAGE DAY IN MILK DESTROYING BUSINESS.Milk is sold to the consumer at the price of 14 cents a quart and 8 cents a pint. The retail value of the milk destroyed yesterday, not deducting the worth of the butter fat that was saved, would be $7,660.80 if sold in quarts and $8,755.20 if sold in pints. The consumer must pay the bill. Some way or another it is added into the cost of milk.The Times reporter watched the destruction of the milk from early morning until evening yesterday. He followed a truck load tf milk from a rural community to the “surplus milk station where he gained admittance by a ruse. He saw it stream from the separating tank at an estimated speed of twelve gallons a minute. He caught dippers of the milk before it flowed into the sewer. It was sweet, warm and sustaining. It was all he ate throughout the day and he was not hungry at night. It tasted almost as nourishing as milk delivered by the dairyman to the consumer after it stands long enough for the cream to rise to the top and the craam has been removed.CAMOUFLAGE SURPLUS PLANT'* AS DAIRY.The Milk Producers* Co-Operative Marketing Company’s “surplus milk plant in Gary is not listed in the telephone directory. It is located at 1530 Madison street on Gary's south side and the building is on the back end of the lot. The cans are lifted from the automobile trucks onto a landing platform by a crew of workmen who remove the lids and dump the contents Into a big vat. The milk passes through a drain in the bottom of the vat into an apparatus that separaies a considerable portion of the butter fat and then flows out of a trough onto the cement floor and into the sewer basin.The Indiana Harbor “surplus milk station is located at 1718 One Hundred and Thirty-seventh street and a sign on the front of the building which is back from the street proclaims it to be a “dairy. There are two separators at this “plapt and the milk flows from two drains onto the floor and is carried away in two 1 catch basins.Next door to the Indiana Harbor “surplus milk plant the Milk wo- 1 ducers’ Co-operative Marketing Company maintains a retail dairy, it sells 1 milk at 8 cents a pint* and 14 cents ’ a quart. *Asked why the company charged so 1 much for milk when it was apparent- 1 ly such a worthless commodity, Nicholas Kiper, the manager of the ' Milk Producers' Marketing Company's Indiana Harbor retail depot said that £ he didn't dare sell it cheaper. Ha said
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East Chicago Times
East Chicago, Indiana, US
Thu, May 12, 1921
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