i8o THE MARKETING OF WHOLE MILK 



cream, butter, cheese and other dairy products which he 

 has to market or dispose of, through the facilities provided 

 by the Association, that such member shall pay to the 

 Association, as liquidated damages, and upon demand 

 of the Association, the sum of fifteen (15) per cent of the 

 value of the product sold by him otherwise than through 

 the Association." 1 



Provision is made, however, whereby any member may 

 withdraw his milk or other dairy products from the mar- 

 keting arrangements, such withdrawal to take effect May i 

 of any year, providing he gives written notice of his intent 

 to withdraw at least thirty days before the annual meeting 

 of the year in which such withdrawal is to take effect. 2 

 In case a member ceases to be a milk producer, provision 

 is made for refunding to him the dues paid or such propor- 

 tion of the dues as his proportionate share of the assets 

 of the association amount to at the end of two years. 



All expenses of maintaining the association are dis- 

 tributed over all the business done by the association for 

 its members and charged against each member in propor- 

 tion to the amount of business which the association has 

 done for him. 3 



This whole group of California milk producers' associ- 

 ations has been federated into the Associated Dairymen 

 of California, which was incorporated August 4, 1917, as 

 a non-stock, non-profit organization, with five associations 

 as its charter members. 4 At the close of 1919 this organi- 

 zation included approximately eight thousand dairymen, 

 members of the following associations: 5 



1 By-Laws, 1919, pp. 18-19. 



2 Ibid., p. 19. 

 * Ibid., p. 18. 



3 Second Annual Report of State Market Director of California, 1917, p. 24. 

 6 Fourth Annual Report of State Market Director of California, 1920, p. 45. 



