174 THE MARKETING OF WHOLE MILK 



failed to agree on a price, and this disagreement resulted 

 in a boycott of the dealers during the first twenty-five days 

 of January. This difficulty brought to a head the idea of 

 reorganization, which then took the form of a plan to 

 organize all the dairymen in the New York milk shed into 

 one vast cooperative association which should take over 

 as rapidly as possible the entire milk business for the 

 territory. 1 The plan at present is to take up first the 

 manufacturing end in the country, because that is the 

 end with which the farmers are the most familiar and also 

 because it constitutes two-thirds of all the milk production 

 of the Dairymen's League members. City distribution 

 may be the next step, if this first step succeeds. 2 



The Dairymen's League Cooperative Association was 

 incorporated under Article ijA of the membership cor- 

 poration laws of New York as revised in 1918. The incor- 

 poration took place late in March of 1919. 3 This associa- 

 tion is strictly a non-stock, non-profit corporation and 

 is, at least for the present, not to displace the league, but 

 is to be a parallel organization. 4 Arrangements have 

 recently been made whereby the directors of the new 

 organization and of the Dairymen's League shall be one 

 and the same. 5 The plan is for members of the Dairy- 

 men's League Cooperative Association to form local as- 

 sociations in the various marketing centers, which are 

 to take over or construct local creameries, condenseries, 

 or country milk plants. Later there are to be regional 

 associations. The organization is being built up around 

 the idea that all milk is to be pooled through the central 



1 Dairymen s League News, Feb. 25, 1919, p. i. 



2 Ibid., June 25, 1919, p. i. 



3 Ibid., April 25, 1919, p. 2. 



4 Ibid., Apr. 25, 1919, p. 2. 

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



