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at the lowest possible cost to the producers. The milk 

 is collected from the farmers by association wagon and 

 is delivered to a central station in Erie where it is treated 

 to remove all foreign matter, then remixed, standardized 

 to about four per cent of butter-fat, bottled, pasteurized, 

 and distributed to the consumers in wagons belonging to 

 the association. The association also manufactures ice 

 cream and has a small creamery in which to utilize the 

 surplus milk. Formerly, the milk was distributed in Erie 

 by the individual dairymen at an unnecessary expense to 

 each one, and, therefore, either at a lower net profit to the 

 producer or a higher cost to the consumer. This asso- 

 ciation is formed as a stock company. The shares of 

 stock are sold at fifty dollars each. The milk is paid for 

 at the rate of three and a quarter to three and three- 

 quarters cents per quart with a minimum standard of 

 three and one-half per cent of fat. It pays fifty-five cents 

 a gallon for twenty per cent cream and one dollar and ten 

 cents per gallon for forty per cent cream. The surplus 

 profits are prorated to the producers on the amount of 

 stock held, but the amount of stock issued to each mem- 

 ber is proportional to the amount of milk delivered. 



The New York Dairymen's League 



The New York Dairymen's League is a corporation 

 formed by the producers of milk who supply the city of 

 New York, where fifty thousand cans of milk are consumed 

 daily, to act for them in marketing their milk. The stock- 

 holders of the League pay twenty-five cents per cow for 

 the stock, which is issued at the rate of two dollars and 

 fifty cents per share. The company reserves the right 



