Excerpt from The New England Farmer, 1868, Vol. 2: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and Kindred Arts and Sciences A combination among farmers that they will sell no milk under fifty cents a can, might com pel the contractor to pay that price for a very short time, until others outside the combina tion could undersell, as they surely would very soon. At that high price, the production of milk would be doubled in six months, and 'as neither hotel customers, babies, nor anybody else, could be persuaded to use double quanti ties, there would be an over supply, and the farmers would undersell each other, and force the price below even a' fair one. 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.