Milk Prices Jump as Condensed Milk Company Shakes Up Dairy Market

The Washington Condensed Milk Company is making the creamery men and city dairies get a move on themselves. Since the starting of the company last July there has been better prices paid for milk than in years. The latest move on the part of the company is to advance milk to twelve cents at the station, fourteen cents delivered in Seattle. The coming of this plant to Kent is a great thing for the White River Valley and means a large increase in the revenue of our farmers. It is a well known fact that condensed milk plants pay higher prices for milk than any creamery or dairy can afford to, and milk shippers should see that this factory has all the milk it wants, as it will not do for a plant of this kind to have to stop on account of milk when they are ready and willing to pay the prices they now offer. If it had not been for this plant operating in Seattle, milk would now be but nine cents at the station, where it is now twelve, and bids fair to continue at a good living price the year through if the plant has enough milk to pay to run it. The boiler is now in place at the factory, and it is the desire of the company to move the plant here as soon as they can accumulate sufficient stock. But at present it is impossible to get enough milk to do this, and all our shippers should help them out before the business is so heavy as to prevent their moving. — Kent Journal.