June, 1941] 



Local Structure of Milk Prices 



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Fig. 12. Jefferson Area showing location of farm, number of market 



SHIFTS, AND MARKET, MaRCFI,1939 



stances of losses through financially irresponsible dealers are reported for 

 this earlier period. Apparently, such conditions no longer hold, and Ber- 

 lin dealers have largely overcome the mistrust engendered by these earlier 

 experiences. 



By 1931, conditions Mere more stable and a small group of producers 

 were regularly sending milk to Berlin. 



In April, 1932 Jefferson producers, dissatisfied with the prices being 

 paid for their milk, organized a cooperative and stated a price below 

 which they would refuse to sell milk. This strike was unsuccessful from 

 the start. iViany producers who had joined the cooperative continued to 

 furnish milk and in a short time the strike, along with the cooperative, 

 was ended. 



Other efforts at increasing producer control of milk going to Berlin 

 were made a little later when a few producers organized a cooperative 

 distributing association and operated a plant in Berlin. Never very suc- 

 cessful and finally encountering obstacles with regard to installation of 



