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them during the next few years, an unrest expressed in 

 schemes to sell their milk to cheese and butter factories ^ 

 and in negotiations with rival distributing agencies in the 

 city.^ A result of this unrest was the impetus given to 

 the organization of cooperative stock companies and the 

 building of creameries. Largely through the pressure 

 brought to bear by the Five States Milk Producers As- 

 sociation, in the summer of 1900 the producers received an 

 increase in the price paid them for milk of one-eighth 

 of a cent per quart.* This increase, though small, at least 

 admitted the association as an element to be consulted in 

 determining milk prices. Later the association attempted 

 to establish a schedule of prices which the members must 

 be paid for their product, but the milk exchange failed 

 to comply with such a schedule, and constant warfare 

 resulted between the two organizations.* More and 

 more creameries continued to appear throughout the 

 region supplying milk to New York. By 1903 the Five 

 States Milk Producers' Association, through its members, 

 was controlling nearly one hundred and fifty cooperative 

 creameries,* and early in that year "the cooperative 

 creameries, corporations, and associations supplying milk 

 to Greater New York and neighboring cities" formed 

 themselves into a "Cooperative Creameries Association," 

 of which the purpose was, so the resolution read, " to bring 

 in close touch all cooperative creameries, in order that by 

 united effort we may hasten the accomplishment of the 

 work undertaken by the Five States Milk Producers' 



* Neto York Produce Review y American Creamery, Mar. 21, I9C»; Ibid., 

 July 25, 1903. 



* Ibid., May 23, 1900. 

 ' Ibid., July 18, 1900. 



* Ibid., July 3, 1901. 



* Hoard's Dairyman, Apr. 24, 1903. 



