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think and act for themselves : and this requires so radical a 

 change in this great body of society, that its accomplishment 

 must be of slow growth. 



" It is because these milk dairymen, who, producing the milk, 

 may regulate its sale, on the principle of supply and demand, 

 do not form associations for that purpose, that these ' few milk 

 dealers' are kind enough to fix the price for them. They mere- 

 ly perform a duty that the milk dairymen omit ! This is just 

 like the self-sacrificing spirit of the middle-men everywhere. 

 They are always spending their time in fixing the prices for 

 the farmers : and yet the farmers do not seem to appreciate it."* 



A very recent effort " for giving people good milk and farm- 

 ers a fair profit," reported in the New York World, seems 

 worthy of notice, as showing the tendency towards co-operation. 



At a meeting of the Bedford Farmers' Club, at the residence 

 of Mr. John Jay, near Katonah, Westchester Co., the follow- 

 ing resolutions were adopted : — 



1. That a committee of three be appointed to consider the 

 feasibility of co-operation by the farmers of the vicinity, for 

 tlie direct delivery, under their own direction, of milk and 

 other farm products, to the consumers in New York, particular- 

 ly as regards milk, the prices paid by the consumer and that 

 received by the farmer. And the committee be requested to re- 

 port their opinion on the tendency of such direct delivery, to 

 economize expense, to harmonize the interests of the producer 

 and consumer, to enlarge the share of profit coming to the 

 farmer and the certainty of its returns, and as regards the 

 consumer, on its tendency to afford additional security against 

 adulteration, short measure and misrepresentation of any kind 

 touching the character and value of the article. 



2. That the said Committee, if persuaded of the feasibility 

 of such an arrangement, be requested to report fully their 

 views and to submit a plan for putting the scheme into opera- 

 tion, with provision for securing in all cases a proper standard 



* National Live Stock Journal. 



