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in the chapter on prices reveals as the reason for the rapid 

 increase in the number of organizations between 1916 

 and 1918 the fact that milk prices had lagged behind other 

 prices in the rapid ascent growing out of the world war. 



TABLE XXXII 

 Dates of Organization of Thirty-six Milk Producers' Associations 



During the early part of the movement a large number 

 of local organizations were formed, many of them in- 

 dependent of larger organizations covering the same 

 general territory. The writer has the names of a consider- 

 able number of such associations scattered over Ohio, 

 Michigan, the New England States, and other parts of 

 the country, many of which are known to have now merged 

 with larger associations. Many others have simply ceased 

 to exist, and others are weak and ineffective as bargain- 

 ing organizations. 



The milk producers' associations are of two general 

 types: first, voluntary associations; and second, incor- 

 porated associations or companies. Practically all of the 

 smaller associations are of the former type. In the milk 

 zones about our large cities, however, most of the as- 

 sociations are incorporated. Some of these, as for example 

 the New England Milk Producers' Association, the United 

 Dairy Association of the state of Washington, the Inland 



