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, Northern California Milk Producers' Association, Sacramento; 

 Milk Producers' Association of Central California, Oakland; 

 Associated Milk Producers, Inc., San Francisco; San Joaquin 

 Valley Milk Producers' Association, Fresno; California Milk 

 Producers' Association, Los Angeles; Imperial Valley Milk 

 Producers' Association, El Centre; Salinas Valley Dairy Asso- 

 ciation, Soledad; Milk Producers' Association of San Diego, 

 San Diego. 



Membership in the central association consists of two 

 representatives from each of the member organizations 

 "duly accredited to represent and bind the association.** 1 

 The members of the central association are "joint trustees 

 for their respective milk producers* association," 2 and 

 they hold any property rights which they acquire solely 

 as trustees for the association which they represent. Each 

 member pays a $100 membership fee upon entering. The 

 vote of the members is equal at any meeting or on any 

 subject. The members meet annually and elect a board 

 of ten directors, who in turn elect the officers. 



Each of the units retains its individual and corporate 

 identity and continues to handle the production and manu- 

 facture of its own products and to care for such milk and 

 sweet cream produced by its members as are marketed in 

 those forms. "The products, such as butter, cheese, 

 casein, sugar of milk, evaporated milk, condensed skim 

 milk, powdered milk, and other dairy products will be 

 marketed . . . through the medium of the Associated 

 Dairymen of California." 3 The association has already 

 appointed a market director, with the idea of getting the 

 products more directly into the hands of consumers and 



1 Multigraphed By-Laws, p. 10. 



*Ibid., p. 13. 



3 Third Annual Report of State Market Director of California, 1918, p. 49. 



