160 Cooperation in Agriculture 



to purchase the stock of any stockholder who desires to 

 sell. 



The League, which is just organizing, is planned to act 

 as an agency through which the milk producers can act 

 in the protection and upbuilding of the industry. It is 

 not a milk-distributing agency, but rather an organization 

 which protects the producers in the dealings with the 

 established distributing agencies. The purpose of the 

 League is to "oppose and prevent monopoly in the pro- 

 duction or sale of milk, to encourage competition therein, 

 and to protect its stockholders and the consumers of milk 

 against monopoly or any unlawful combination of any 

 kind or nature whereby the producers or consumers of 

 milk are injuriously affected, to promote legislation and 

 board of health ordinances beneficially affecting the in- 

 terests of the stockholders who are producers of milk for 

 the metropolitan district and other markets, and to act 

 as their agent in marketing their products and to carry 

 on all such business as its articles of incorporation au- 

 thorize." 



The producers of a community where there is a creamery, 

 a condensery, or a shipping station form a local association 

 which acts for the producers in dealing with the League, 

 or the League may act through a local grange, the New 

 York State Grange having three members on the Board 

 of Directors of the League. The League already has 

 several thousand members representing thousand^ of cows. 

 The local organizations have been formed in New York 

 State, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and 

 Pennsylvania. 



