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returning to each local thirty cents for each member pay- 

 ing the commission. 1 



The league is really governed by twenty-four directors, 

 selected for one year. They are selected by districts, into 

 which league territory is divided. 2 At its first meeting a 

 newly elected board of directors chooses from among its 

 own members the president and vice-president. It then 

 elects four other members of the board to act with the 

 president as an executive committee. 3 



Prices are arranged by the executive committee, some- 

 times after consulting with the board of directors. 4 A 

 cooperative plant department has been organized and 

 has sold milk for cooperative plants which were in a posi- 

 tion to ship milk directly to dealers in New York City. 

 During eleven and one-half months, ending November 30, 

 1919, this department sold $1,008,901.60 worth of milk. 5 

 Milk is sold by the league for members, who contract 

 directly with the association. The contract is of the self- 

 renewing type, running for six months' periods, at the 

 end of any one of which a member may withdraw. If a 

 member fails to comply with his contract, he must pay 

 liquidated damages amounting to five dollars per cow. 



Since February, 1917, the league has published the 

 Dairymen's League News, first as a monthly and at present 

 as a bimonthly publication. 



For a number of years, or since 1916, plans have been 

 discussed for the reorganization of the Dairymen's 

 League. 6 In January of 1919 the dairymen and dealers 



1 Dairymen's League News, Jan., 1919, p. 7. 



2 Ibid., Dec. 10, 1919, p. 12. 



3 Printed Constitution and By-laws, p. 6, 1916. 



4 Dairymen's League News, Feb. 10, 1919, p. I. 

 6 Ibid., Dec. 10, 1919, p. 21. 



6 Ibid., Dec. 10, p. ix. 



