The modern milk problem in sanitation, economics, and agriculture . argues that his labor is becoming harder, his ex-penses heavier, and his margin of profit (if, indeed, itexists) smaller, while time-honored ways are beingreplaced by ^new-fangled notions which bring himno benefit. The complaint is, as an agriculturaljournal remarked not long ago, that everything usedin the production of milk has increased in cost duringrecent years, while the price of milk has remained prac-tically the same or [is] in some cases even less. In corroboration of this protest of the farmer a milkspecialist o
The modern milk problem in sanitation, economics, and agriculture . argues that his labor is becoming harder, his ex-penses heavier, and his margin of profit (if, indeed, itexists) smaller, while time-honored ways are beingreplaced by ^new-fangled notions which bring himno benefit. The complaint is, as an agriculturaljournal remarked not long ago, that everything usedin the production of milk has increased in cost duringrecent years, while the price of milk has remained prac-tically the same or [is] in some cases even less. In corroboration of this protest of the farmer a milkspecialist of the United States Department of Agricul-ture writes:— If the dairy farmers of this country were asked this ques-tion, What can be done to encourage the production ofclean milk? I am sure that nearly all would answer, Se-cure better prices and markets for our product. There-fore, the conditions as they exist to-day are these: manydairymen do not receive enough for their product to warrantany extensive changes or outlay, and many dairymen who THE CASE TO-DAY 47. Fig. 10. Typical Milksheds(f) Milwaukee (1911). This chart represents only milk shipped byrail; about as much again is brought in by wagon. (Bulletin 13,Milwaukee Bureau of Efficiency and Economy, 1912.) 48 THE MODERN MILK PROBLEM are paying no particular attention to better milk are receiv-ing the same price for their milk as those who are trying tomarket a clean, safe product. This state of affairs, one canreadily see, does not encourage clean milk production; how-ever, we must work with the facts as they are. If we expectthe farmers to produce better milk, we must assist them toreceive a reasonable profit for their labor. In some sections of the country, dairymen state that theprice received for milk is not sufficient to warrant theirstaying in the business. If it were not for the value the cowsare to the farm, more dairymen would stop milking them,and take up some other line of agriculture. The questionof prices a
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