168 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [P. D. 4. 



THE NEW YORK DAIRYMEN'S LEAGUE. 



R. D. COOPER, LITTLE FALLS, NEW YORK. 



The Dairymen's League knows no State lines. The Dairy- 

 men's League was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey, 

 and at the present time takes in the western part of Connecti- 

 cut, the western counties of ^Massachusetts, the western side of 

 Vermont, the dairy section of New York State, the northern 

 tier of counties in Pennsylvania, — northeastern Pennsylvania, 

 — and the northern part of New Jersey. The Dairymen's 

 League is not confined to New York State. Possibly the idea' 

 that it was may have come about from the fact that the Dairy- 

 men's League was originally organized because it had in mind 

 at that time the New^ Y'ork market, but, of course, the New 

 Y'ork City's milk market, for that is the territory from which it 

 draws its supply, covers New York State and many adjoining 

 States. 



The Dairymen's League was incorporated under the laws of 

 New Jersey for $100,000, and was started in a small way down 

 close to the New York and the New Jersey line. It was organ- 

 ized about nine years ago, and its growth until last year had 

 not been rapid, but thrifty. However, about three years ago 

 the League believed that it should attempt to secure better 

 prices, and a committee of five of the directors w^ent to New 

 York to confer with the dealers there and ask them for a better 

 price for the milk. They first went to the Borden Company, 

 who refused to have anything to do with them. They then 

 w^ent to some of the smaller companies and smaller dealers and 

 asked to talk the matter over, and the latter at once asked the 

 committee what Borden's had done. When the smaller dealers 

 were told that Borden's had done nothing, they said, "Well, if 

 Borden can't do anything with you we can't either." So our 

 committee went back home and announced to its members that 



