284 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



DISCUSSION. 



Q. How do you support your organization? 



A. Each local organization establishes a membership fee for 

 the expenses of that organization, whatever it may deem proper. 

 The general organization reserves a membership fee of $5 from 

 each local organization, and then it has the power to levy assess- 

 ments upon the local organizations to keep up expenses. The 

 cream is all shipped through the committee, composed of one 

 member from each local station, and any station that fails to ship 

 its cream forfeits its membership and cannot be taken back into 

 the association without the payment of a fee of $50 for reinstating 

 and two-thirds vote of the association, so that when once out it 

 rests with the association as to whether they are taken back. That 

 applies only to the station. Each local station controls that mat- 

 ter with its membership along this line — that each member is under 

 obligations to test his cream under the direction of the associa- 

 tion, and if he fails to do so he forfeits his membership, and can 

 only be reinstated by a vote of his local association and the pay- 

 ment of a reinstatement fee of $5, so that when once he fails to 

 stand by his organization he steps down and out, and it rests with 

 the organization whether he comes back. This reinstatement fee 

 is required merely as a means of holding them together, because 

 those of you who have had any experience in such matters know 

 that there are always little troubles coming up, dissatisfactions, 

 and if there were no penalty attached many of the farmers would 

 throw the thing down and go his own way ; then, when he saw hib 

 mistake, he would turn around and come back into the association ; 

 but where there is a penalty attached he will think twice before 

 he throws the thing down. 



Q. Is the cream sold on your test? 



A. Yes, the test is made by the local station. Each local 

 station owns its own testing outfit, and each station selects a man 

 to do its testing. When we sell to the creamery we sell on the 

 test made by those local testers, with the understanding that if 

 they find any shortage they are at liberty to go to the stations at 

 any time and have the matter corrected. Each individual's cream 

 is tested separately, and he is paid for the butter-fat that is in his 

 cream, and then the creamery makes a composite test of the whole 

 shipment. 



Q. Who pays the transportation? 



A. The creamery. We are at no expense in shipping. 



