THE STORY OF MILK

...The book starts off with a brief history of the eastern milk industry as a purely local activity...

...The story of the Dairymen's League is well told, with its initial hopes and ultimate sad disappointments to the farmers as an agent for promoting the interests of producers...

...More's book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the origins and development of the milk industry, drawing its materials and generalizations chiefly from the experience of the Eastern Milk-shed that supplies milk to the metropolitan centers along the Atlantic seaboard...

...Reviewed by Harry Elmer Barnes THE "MILK PROBLEM" is assuredly one of the leading economic and social problems of our country in time of peace...

...In wartime, it becomes even more cogent and momentous...

...More concludes that producers' organizations, and especially producers' cooperatives, are the only real answer to the milk problem for producers and consumers alike, and the evidence seems to support his contention...

...The author is a well-known writer for farm papers, an active official and worker in the Grange, and a man who has had an intimate, first-hand contact with all sides of the milk question for more than half a century...

...If the League did not sell out to the distributors, certainly it played into their hands...

...It is intimately related to the larger general issue of adequate nutrition for the nation, hardly less crucial than the much more widely debated meat problem...

...Then follows an account of the development of the great distributors' organizations—Sheffield, Borden, and the National Dairy Products, Inc...

...The recent history of the milk problem is well analyzed—unsuccessful strikes, lack of unity among pror ducers, state intervention, and the statesmanlike investigation and recommendations of the Owen D. Young Committee of 1941.' Mr...

...Next, it traces the beginnings of milk shipments to New York City, starting with 1878...