THE RURAL NEW-YORKER; 
March 17 
i9o 
THE MILK PRODUCERS’ ASSOCIATION 
The Five States Milk Producers’ Asso¬ 
ciation held a meeting at Binghamton on 
March 7. There was a large attendance, 
and much interest was manifested. The 
ehief business was to learn wha't had 
been done by the committee appointed 
to perfect arrangements for selling milk. 
The attorney of this committee stated 
that already on every line shipping milk 
'into New York, the farmers have pur¬ 
chased, erected, or planned shipping sta¬ 
tions or creameries, so as to make use 
of the milk nearer home. This seemed 
to be the first step toward a possible 
control of the market. It seems to be no 
use to try to control the surplus after it 
reaches New \ork. Accordingly, the 
committee on resolutions offered the fol¬ 
lowing: 
Whereas, We, the members of the F. S. 
M. P. A., are engaged in a gigantic under¬ 
taking for the purpose of getting a fair and 
living price for our milk, and, whereas, we 
believe our sales committee has endeav¬ 
ored to do the very best it could to con¬ 
summate the sale of our milk at a reason¬ 
able living price; and. 
Whereas, It has made a sale to the Pure 
Milk Company, and the said company has 
agreed to take our milk at stated times, 
but on account of some unforeseen and un¬ 
expected financial difficulty that has arisen 
they have failed to take our milk as agreed 
and have asked for an extension of time, 
which has been granted by our association. 
Nevertheless, our sales committee has 
the utmost faith that in the not distant 
future the Pure Milk Company or some 
reliable company will take our milk at the 
price stated in the contract. But as the 
season is rapidly advancing for us to know 
what we shall do with our milk the coming 
season; 
Therefore, be it resolved, That we ad¬ 
vise the several committees to which the 
sale of our milk is entrusted, and whenever 
they think it expedient or advisable, to 
establish a uniform price for our milk, 
which shall not be less than the price stated 
in the contract with the Pure Milk Com¬ 
pany, and if the purchasers of our milk 
refuse to pay the price established by our 
sales committee, then we would recom¬ 
mend that all the milk producers belonging 
to the F. S. M. P. A. manufacture their 
milk into some product until such time as 
the sales committee might otherwise advise 
or order. 
Resolved, That each route union be re¬ 
quested to elect an advisory committee con¬ 
sisting of not less than three or more than 
five members who shall counsel, confer and 
associate with the sales committee of the 
central association relative to the sale of 
our milk. 
Resolved; That we earnestly request all 
milk producers to co-operate with us in 
endeavoring to get a fair and living price 
for the products of our dairy, for we believe 
that if the milk producers stand firm and 
united by our sales committee that they 
will accomplish the result desired by us. 
After some deb.rte these resolutions 
were adopted by a nearly unanimous 
vote. There was quite a difference of 
opinion relative to the best method of 
proceeding. Some of the milk producers 
sharply criticised the sales committee, 
claiming that it had not done as much as 
it should have. The more conservative 
members, who were the best business 
men, were in the majority, and the reso¬ 
lutions seemed to be a fair statement of 
their views. These conservative men do 
not want a milk strike, because they 
realize that the producers are not able 
yet to make such a strike successful. 
These men propose first to go to some 
reliable company, or to a body of dealers, 
and offer them milk at a fair living 
price; then if these dealers will not pay 
the price, the producers will hold their 
milk back from the market, and work it 
up into butter and cheese in the home 
factories. In this way they will obtain 
better returns than they can now obtain 
by selling their milk at the present price. 
There are some hot-headed members 
who favor an immediate strike, holding 
the milk back from the dealers, think¬ 
ing 'in this way to bring them to time. 
They do not realize that the farmers are 
not yet ready to hold this milk back for 
any length of time. When the cream¬ 
eries and factories are secured, this can 
be done, and then if the producers de¬ 
mand fair prices, not too excessive, they 
will probably win. The following com¬ 
mittee presented the resolutions given 
above: 
Hon. David Sherwood, of the Lackawanna 
Route Union; Alfred H. Ives and J. M. 
Borden, of the O. & W. Union; H. O. 
Averill, of the N. Y., N. H. & H. Union; 
Newman Hall, of the Susquehanna Union; 
J. A. Hulsizer, of the New Jersey Central 
Union; F. H. Thompson, of the Black 
River Union; D. H. Hull, of the Ulster'and 
Delaware Union; D. M. Coveney, of the 
Lehigh Union; J. J. Parker, of the West 
Shore Union; J. J. Belknap, of the Erie 
Union; George E. Platt, of the D. & H. 
Union. 
Other resolutions supported the anti- 
oleo bills now before Congress, and also 
the pure-cream bill before the New York 
Legislature. 
Changes in Pork Making.— The fashion¬ 
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Record, was a mere animated bladder of 
lard, very pretty to look upon but of no 
practical use but for the furnishing of fat 
with which to fry fish. This craze for 
short-snouted, fat-backed pigs continued for 
many years, and the United States pro¬ 
duced fat salted pork and lard at so much 
below prices in England that only the 
longer and leaner of the English fat pigs 
could be profitably converted into bacon. 
Germany, and subsequently Sweden and 
Denmark, entered the lists as bacon curers, 
and the keen competition drove the Eng¬ 
lish curers to change their methods. Breed¬ 
ers of repute began to produce purebred 
pigs of the bacon type and succeeded so 
well in combining length and breadth of 
frame with a large proportion of lean meat 
that in all the English country districts the 
change in the anatomy of bacon-producing 
flocks was marked and the industry began 
once more to be generally prosperous. The 
English supremacy in bacon production is 
again being challenged by both Danes and 
Canadians, who are securing a considerable 
proportion of the best trade. 
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