Excerpt from A Study of the New York City Milk Problem The producers were conscious that the price they were receiving from the dealers did not cover the cost of production and so were determined at all events to see the strike through. Beyond the interest taken by the Mayor, there was no authoritative assertion of the right of the New York public to receive its daily supply. The controversy was finally settled, but the public paid the bill. From this time on, the price of milk to the consumer was progressively higher until in November, 1917, but little more than a year from the time of the first strike, grade B milk rose from 9 cents to 15 cents or an advance of 66 over its former price. In the fall of 1917, controversy again rose. Public authorities began to take cognizance of the situation and the District Attorney even threatened to indict the leaders of the producers who were making what seemed to him to be exorbitant demands. It was reported that if the District Attorney should carry out his threat against one or more of the members of the Producers' Association, the cows would be killed and the milk destroyed. Again the New York milk supply was imperiled and again the controversy was settled by the New York public's paying the bill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.