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The producer would doubtless feel that a city corpo- 

 ration, seeking to incur the favor of its city patrons, whose 

 votes granted it a charter and whose representatives 

 regulate its rates, would be a hard bargainer. He would 

 not be inclined to trust the price-making function to a 

 city regulatory board, even if producers, consumers, and 

 dealers were represented. 



It has been reported that in Calgary, Canada, much dis- 

 satisfaction arose among consumers as a result of con- 

 centration of the business in the hands of one company. 

 A large concern with a monopoly of the business would 

 certainly inaugurate numerous money-saving reforms 

 which would not meet with the entire approval of its cus- 

 tomers, such for example as the deposit on bottles above 

 mentioned, curtailment of special delivery service, de- 

 livery at times convenient to the company, etc., and this 

 would certainly result in a great deal of criticism, at least 

 in the start. In the above instance it was reported ' that 

 this dissatisfaction went so far as to result in a movement 

 to supply consumers with goats with which to produce 

 their own milk. 



Section 4. Cooperation as a Remedy 



Four types of cooperation have been proposed: (i) co- 

 operation among dealers, particularly in the delivery of 

 milk; (2) cooperation between grocers and producers; 

 (3) cooperation among consumers; (4) cooperation among 

 producers. 



Cooperation among dealers would seem to be a make- 

 shift at best and would not really solve the problem un- 

 less it went far enough to be similar to the plan discussed 

 in the preceding section. For one delivery wagon to 



* International Milk Dealers' Association, Nov., 1917. 



