i 5 o THE MARKETING OF WHOLE MILK 



during the same period in which the eastern cities were 

 organizing. The Milk Producers' Union, composed of 

 producers supplying Cleveland, was organized in 1887,* 

 mainly for the purpose of bettering its members' market. 

 It was still in at least nominal existence at the end of the 

 year 1894.2 About 1897 the Northern Ohio Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Association was organized to fight for better prices 

 for the producers' milk. 3 This organization seems to have 

 existed continuously until 1916, when it received added 

 impetus and gained many new members. 4 In April, 

 1919, it was reorganized and incorporated under the 

 name of The Ohio Farmers' Cooperative Milk Com- 

 pany. 5 



The first definite effort at organization in the Pitts- 

 burg region occurred in the spring of 1889, when three 

 hundred twenty farmers organized about April i, for 

 "protection and mutual aid." 6 The milk dealers fought 

 this organization vigorously, however; some of the mem- 

 bers weakened; lack of unity existed in the organization; 

 and in May of the same year it broke up entirely. On the 

 yth of September, 1894,* the milk shippers supplying milk 

 to Pittsburg from the sections lying near the Panhandle 

 railroad met to organize for "protection and regulation 

 of wholesale milk prices in Pittsburg." 8 On October i, 

 this new organization held a meeting at Pittsburg to 



1 Cultivator and Country Gentleman, Sept. 23, 1887. 



2 Ohio Farmer, Dec. 20, 1894. 



3 Letter from W. H. Ingersoll, now pres. Ohio Farmers' Coop. Milk Co., 

 Apr. 19, 1919. 



4 Letter from Z. A. Kent, Aurora, Ohio. 

 6 Letter from H. W. Ingersoll. 



6 National Stockman & Farmer, Apr. 18, 1889. 



7 Ibid., Sept. 27, 1894. 



8 Ibid. 



