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Empire Dairymen's Association of eastern Washington 

 and Idaho, as well as most of the group in California, are 

 incorporated on the non-stock, non-profit plan. Most 

 of the eastern and midwestern associations, however, are 

 incorporated on the capital stock plan. This is true of 

 such leading organizations as the Milwaukee Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Association, the Milk Producers' Cooperative 

 Marketing Company (Chicago), the Dairymen's League 

 (New York), the Dairymen's Cooperative Sales Company 

 (Pittsburg), the Inter-State Milk Producers' Associ- 

 ation (Philadelphia), and the Twin City Milk Producers' 

 Association (Minneapolis and St. Paul). Of thirty-six 

 organizations thirty are incorporated and six unincor- 

 porated; and of twenty-eight incorporated associations 

 eleven are on the non-stock, non-profit basis, and seven- 

 teen have capital stock varying from a few thousand to 

 five hundred thousand dollars. Stockholding is quite 

 frequently based on the number of cows kept. The Dairy- 

 men's Cooperative Sales Company, for example, require 

 each member to hold at least one share with a par value 

 of $2.50 and an additional one-tenth share for each cow 

 above ten. A similar arrangement holds with regard to 

 the Dairymen's League and the Inter-State Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Association. 



In the case of the non-stock association, the member- 

 ship fee is also frequently based on the number of cows. 

 The United Dairy Association of Washington is organized 

 on the basis of ten dollars per cow, with a minimum of 

 fifty dollars per member. The New England Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Association, however, has a membership fee of 

 but one dollar. The voluntary associations, as a rule, 

 have nominal fees of about one dollar. 



The larger associations are ordinarily composed of 



