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gaining between the producer and distributor of 

 milk has l)een established. The dairymen of many 

 counties were led to withdraw their supply of raw 

 milk and divert it into other channels such as the 

 manufacture of butter and cheese for a sufficient time 

 to show that they meant business. More recently the 

 League has l)een forced to take steps to care for the 

 surplus of milk at certain seasons and to equalize the 

 price to ])i'oducers. These two movements, the 

 Chicago and the Xew York milk strikes, are un- 

 doubtedly epoch making in the example they afford 

 of the benefit of united action among farmers when 

 backed by a just cause. 



The quantity of milk and other dairy products 

 consumed by ^Tew York City is so large that it 

 must be drawn from a region reaching out hundreds 

 of miles into the country. Eaw and prepared milk 

 is brought from nearly every part of the State by 

 special milk express trains. They run regularly from 

 the middle of the State and give service as far 

 north as the Canadiail line in the St. Lawrence and 

 Champlain valleys. All along the route are milk 

 gathering stations where the product is assembled 

 and prepared for shipment. Some is put in bottles 

 but the greater part goes in forty-quart cans. The 

 manufactured products of milk, butter and cheese, 

 are made up either in privately or cooperatively owned 

 factories. These cooperative organizations have sel- 

 dom extended beyond a single plant but there are 

 instances in which a series of such plants is operated 

 under a cooperative or corporate arrangement. 



