A regular feature looking back at what was being printed more than 100 years ago in the Bristol Daily Courier. This week’s entry comes from the July 31, 1917 edition of the newspaper.
Local Milk Dealers Have Trouble With Supply Falling Off
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Bristol milk dealers report that they are confronted with a shortage of milk. They attribute this shortage of milk to the extreme heat and flies.
Cows in pasture fields are being pestered with flies. They are worried to such an extent that they do not eat and consequently the milk production falls off. One prominent milk retailer the morning said that a dairy near here which formerly supplied 140 quarts of milk had dropped to forty quarts through this cause.
When the dairies supplying the dealers fall off, the retailer is embarrassed, as they do not have any dairies from which to make up to the deficiency in the supply. Formerly, the retailers could purchase extra milk from a dairy company at Newtown and Trenton. Now, these firms are shipping all of their milk to the large cities where it is bringing high prices.
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A month ago, the Fallsington milk producers are said to be have been getting 12 cents a quart for their milk. Tomorrow, the new schedule of prices for milk in Bristol will go into effect. Milk will be sold for 12 cents per quart, cream for 40 cents, and skim milk for eight cents.
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