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impetus to the growth of the organization, and by the 

 end of that year about 95 per cent of the shippers of the 

 Chicago district were said to have joined. 1 



In 1916 the association organized the Milk Producers' 

 Cooperative Milk Company, discussed elsewhere in this 

 chapter. This company did not get into operation, how- 

 ever, until 1919. 



The following list of associations with principal market 

 centers about which each was organized and approximate 

 dates of formation will give a resume* of the move- 

 ment. 



Name 



Principal 

 Market 

 Center 



Date of 

 formation 



A forerunner of Five States Milk Producers' Un. 



Five States Milk Producers' Union 



Five States Milk Producers' Association 



Cooperative Creameries Association 



Dairymen's League 



Dairymen's League Cooperative Association.. . . 



Boston Milk Producers' Union 



New England Milk Producers' Association 



(Only a change of name from the preceding) 

 Boston Cooperative Milk Producers' Company . 

 New England Milk Producers' Association 



(A new organization. Incorporated on non- 

 stock non-profit basis in 1917) 



Scattered associations around Philadelphia 



United Milk Producers' Association 



Philadelphia Milk Shippers' Union 



Interstate Milk Producers' Association 



United Milk Producers' Association 



Milk Producers' Union 



Northern Ohio Milk Producers' Association 

 Ohio Farmers' Cooperative Milk Company 



New York City 



Boston 



Philadelphia 



Baltimore 

 Cleveland 



1883 

 1889 

 1898 

 1903 

 1907 

 1919 

 1886 

 1904 



1904 

 1913 



1883 

 1887 

 1896 

 1916 

 1899 

 1887 

 1897 

 1919 



Pacific Dairy Review, Dec. 30, 1916. 



