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locals, so as to facilitate expression of opinion in the han- 

 dling of local problems. Eighteen associations report no 

 locals. Fifteen report locals varying in number from 

 3 to 1,097, the latter being the number reported by the 

 Dairymen's League. Since this association covers the 

 large milk shed of New York City, many of its locals, in 

 the vicinity of cities like Rochester, New Tfork, are them- 

 selves associations of considerable size. 



A number of associations have undertaken to solve 

 the surplus problem by the acquisition of plants in which 

 to manufacture the various dairy products. The Twin 

 City Milk Producers' Association has twelve such plants, 

 most of which are country creameries or cheese factories. 

 The Milwaukee Association has such a plant; the Pro- 

 ducers' Cooperative Marketing Company of Chicago has 

 three; the New England Milk Producers' Association has 

 only recently taken over the Turner Center System; and 

 a number of the western associations have acquired or 

 built creameries or manufacturing plants for the utilization 

 of their surplus. Among the California associations, for 

 example, the Northern California Milk Producers' As- 

 sociation operates three plants. One of these, located in 

 Sacramento, is equipped for the manufacture of casein, 

 powdered milk, condensed milk, cheese, butter, and other 

 by-products. The Milk Producers' Association of Cen- 

 tral California has a creamery at Stockton and a large 

 plant at Modesto equipped for the manufacture of milk 

 sugar and dry skim milk.^ The Associated Milk Pro- 

 ducers of San Francisco have a plant at Holt and are 

 erecting another at Los Banos. The San Joaquin Valley 

 Association has two or three creameries and contemplates 

 building a large manufacturing plant at some point in the 



' Fourth Annual Report of State Market Director of California, 1920, p. 49. 



