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Borden's Milk Contract March 17 1908Entry/Object ID
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F. A. 3.
“BORDEN’S”
MILK CONTRACT.
THIS AGREEMENT, made this 17th day of March 1908, between BORDEN’S
CONDENSED MILK COMPANY, party of the first part, hereinafter known as the Company, and each of the undersigned, parties
of the second part, hereinafter known as the Dairyman,
WITNESSETH, that the parties hereto, for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar, each to the other in hand paid,
receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, each agree individually, and not for others, to perform the agreements herein set forth
and specified.
THE DAIRYMAN AGREES to sell and deliver daily to the Company, at its plant at Burnside N. Y.,
at the hour it names, the amount of milk produced by his or her dairy, as specified below, the milking of the morning of delivery
and evening preceding, such milk to be whole, sweet, unadulterated and uncontaminated;
That the cow stables will be amply lighted with windows and well ventilated; to keep them clean, removing daily therefrom
all manure or foul material; to use no horse manure or foul material for bedding; to keep no hogs, sheep or fowls housed in said
stables; to keep the cows clean;
To thoroughly wash and rinse all milk utensils used at the dairy immediately after use morning and evening; to rinse the
milk cans and covers with clean water before putting milk therein; to put no milk in unclean cans; to keep the outside of cans and
covers clean and bright, and when not in use to keep the cans upside down, with covers off, on a rack elevated at least three feet;
To provide a milk house within clean surroundings, lighted and ventilated, of suitable capacity and not connected with
any stable or kitchen; to be painted or whitewashed inside, to be used for the safe keeping of milk and for no other purpose,
unless for storing milk utensils;
To have the milking done with dry hands, in the most cleanly manner; immediately after milking to remove the milk,
including strippings, to the milk house, strain it through a 100-mesh wire cloth strainer, and to cool the milk to 58° within forty-
five minutes from the time it is drawn from the cow, by placing the cans of milk in a vat of water and frequently stirring the milk,
or by the use of approved aerators; to keep the cans of milk in the vat of water until time for delivery; to prevent the milk from
freezing or rising in temperature to exceed 58° between forty-five minutes after drawn from the cows and when delivered at
the Company’s plant, to which place it shall be transported on a spring wagon, covered with a clean canvas; to not mix evening’s
and morning’s milk, except the remnants of each milking; to not deliver the milk from a cow that has calved within ten days
or from a cow which will calve within sixty days, or from any cow in an unhealthy condition;
To whitewash the cow stables, sides, ceilings and stalls, thoroughly throughout, within thirty days after signing this contract;
To not feed the cows ensilage, wet brewery or distillery grains, or any feed which will impart a disagreeable flavor or odor
to the milk;
To immediately notify the Company in case of any sickness or disease among the cows of the herd;
To immediately notify the Company if any member of his or her household, or any member of any family occupying the
premises on which the milk is produced, has any infectious or contagious disease, or any person who may be assisting in the work
of the dairy who comes in contact with any infectious or contagious disease.
When such notification is given and the Company should deem it necessary to discontinue to receive the milk of said dairy,
the Company will remunerate the Dairyman for such loss incurred on the milk during the period of sickness, or until the danger
of contagion has been removed.
IT IS MUTUALLY AGREED that the representatives of the Company shall at reasonable hours have access to and the
right to examine the cows, cow stables, milk house, feed, dairy utensils and place for keeping same; and that if any cow is found
to be suffering with any disease which, in the judgment of the Company’s representative, would tend to produce unwholesome
milk, such cow shall be removed from the herd, either temporarily or permanently, as may be necessary to insure wholesome milk;
but there shall be no needless sacrifice in any herd, and sufficient evidence of the existence of disease shall be produced to warrant
the removal of any cow;
That should the Dairyman be unable to make deliveries of milk to the Company, because of the action of legal authorities
or conditions caused by the elements, he or she will give notice to the Company and shall be under no obligation to deliver milk
to the Company; that if, because of accident, action of legal authorities, interruption of railroad transportation facilities, strikes,
or inability to secure necessary supplies, the Company be prevented or hindered from operating its plant, manufacturing or pre-
paring the milk for shipment, or shipping or marketing its products, the Company shall give notice of the fact and shall thereafter
be under no obligation to receive milk from the Dairyman, but at the end of such period or periods and when normal conditions
are restored, the parties to this agreement shall, and are hereby bound to, continue the performance of this agreement;
That failure to comply with the requirements of this agreement by the Dairyman shall be sufficient warrant for the Com-
pany to refuse to receive milk from the Dairyman until such time as the conditions of this agreement are complied with, and in
such event the Company shall in no way be held liable for any losses sustained; that the Company has the right to cancel this
contract in case it has satisfactory evidence that adulterated, skimmed or contaminated milk is being delivered or offered for
delivery by the Dairyman.
THE COMPANY AGREES to buy from the Dairyman the number of pounds of milk as signed individually, if produced
and handled as specified herein; to wash and clean at its plant the inside of all cans in which milk is delivered; to pay on the fifteenth
day of the month following month of delivery the following prices for milk accepted:
Daily average to be delivered ___________ Lbs. @ 1 00 per 100 lbs. for the month of April, 1908
“ “ “ “ ___________ “ 7 00 “ “ “ May, “
“ “ “ “ ___________ “ 8 00 “ “ “ June, “
“ “ “ “ ___________ “ 7 00 “ “ “ July, “
“ “ “ “ ___________ “ 6 00 “ “ “ August, “
“ “ “ “ ___________ “ 6 00 “ “ “ September, “
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have hereunto interchangeably set their hands the day and year first above written.
BORDEN’S CONDENSED MILK CO.
Wm Coddington
Supt
Copyright, 1906, by Borden’s Condensed Milk Co.