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2. Privately owned and operated but publicly regulated 

 monopoly. Existing companies to combine and form a 

 large company. Regulation to be by some body of public 

 spirited men representing producers, distributors, and 

 consumers. 



3. Cooperation among dealers to eliminate present 

 duplication; present competitive system in other respects 

 to be retained. 



4. Cooperative distribution by producers. Proposed 

 by producers who believe that dealers charge excessive 

 prices and thus reduce consumption and then in turn 

 hold the surplus thus created as a club to beat down prices 

 to producers. 



5. Consumers' cooperation. 



6. The milk commission plan. 



7. The milk arbitrator plan. 



8. Store or milk station plan. Proposed as a method 

 of eliminating duplication and cheapening distribution. 



9. Zoning of our cities so as to eliminate duplication. 



10. Collective bargaining as a means of eliminating 

 many of the evils of the present system without some of 

 the radical changes above suggested. 



Section 2. Municipalization of Milk Distribution 



Municipalization of the distribution of milk has so often 

 been proposed that the subject merits rather careful con- 

 sideration at this point. 1 Although this proposal has been 



1 The following instances in which this proposal has been brought forward 

 have come to the writer's attention: 



i^. Proposed for Milwaukee, 1914; see Milwaukee Journal, Oct. I, 1914. 



2. Said to have been provided for in Wellington, New Zealand; Savage, Milk 

 and the Public Health, p. 368. 



3. Proposed for Cleveland, Ohio; Dayton (0.) Herald, July 28, 1919. 



