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Association to secure uniform and remunerative prices 

 for our milk." ^ This association cooperated closely with 

 the Five States Milk Producers' Association, of which in 

 fact it was really a branch. 



In the summer of 1903 the Five States Association con- 

 trolled about half the milk coming into the city of New 

 York,^ and an ambitious scheme gained favor about that 

 time by which the entire milk supply controlled by the 

 association was to be handled -by the Peoples' Pure Milk 

 Company, a ^25,000,000 corporation, from which the 

 farmers were to receive an increased price for their milk 

 the year round. This plan failed, however, because the 

 corporation was financially unable to meet the contract 

 made with the sales committee of the association.* Several 

 other attempts were made at various times to market the 

 milk of the association members through some one large 

 agency, but these efforts also failed, and interest in the 

 association waned. By 1907 the meetings were unattended 

 except by a mere handful of men, composed chiefly of the 

 executive committee, and the organization was practically 

 dead.'* It had accomplished a great deal in educating the 

 producers to organize and in hastening the building of 

 cooperative creameries throughout the territory of its 

 control. 



About this time a new organization appeared in the 

 territory supplying milk for the New York City market, 

 namely, the Dairymen's League, which had a healthy 

 start in a meeting of about seven hundred milk producers 

 held at Middletown, New York, August 24, 1907.^ The 



' New York Produce Review y American Creamery, Apr. I, 1903. 



' IHd., July 22, 1903. 



' Ibid., Oct. 14, 1903. 



* Hoard's Dairyman, Mar. 8, 1907. 



' Rural New Yorker, Sept. 7, 1907. 



