THE PRICE OF MILK.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 279, 4 May 1875, Page 3

THE PRICE OF MILK.

To the Editor of the Globe. Sir, —And so on and after to-day we are informed by seventy-five dairymen we shall have to submit to a rise of about sixty-six per cent in the price of our milk on account of its scarcity. Now, what I would suggest is that the milk consumers should be just as united as the seventy-five milkmen. Let us get up a joint stock company, and be independent of them altogether. Surely with the present price of cows ranging from £8 to £ls each, a capital of £IO,OOO would be ample, especially now that the trains are running in all directions through the country. The milk could be brought down to town in cans with the lids properly secured as in London, so as to insure the same article being drawn out that is put in without any additions from the artesian on the way, and delivered by the company in carts as at present, and even at 3d or 4d per quart the directors would be enabled to carry on most successfully. I must apologise for trespassing on your valuable space, but as the matter is of great importance to the community something ahould be done at once to prevent such an unexpected increase in the monthly expenditure for milk. &c ANOTHER PATERFAMILIAS. May Ist, 1875.