1900 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER] 
THE MILK PRODUCERS MEET 
And Will Keep Up the Battle. 
A Successful Meeting. —The meeting 
of the Five States Milk Producers’ As¬ 
sociation at Binghamton, N. Y., October 
1G, was a notable success. About 125 
producers were present. The discussion 
of the milk problem was general and 
outspoken, producers spoke their minds 
freely, but all was good-natured and har¬ 
monious. There was no undue criticism, 
and all were encouraged and hopeful 
for the ultimate success of the organi¬ 
zation. After the fixing of prices by the 
Association in September, circular let¬ 
ters were sent to the secretaries of the 
local unions throughout the milk-pro¬ 
ducing sections, and these in turn wrote 
to their dealers advising them what the 
price would be for the future. There 
were several reports from these local 
secretaries, and in many cases the price 
had been accepted by the buyers. In 
other cases, where the price had been 
refused, new dealers were found ready 
to take the milk at the prices demanded. 
The meeting last week passed a unani¬ 
mous resolution sustaining the action of 
the board of directors, and sales com¬ 
mittee, in the prices they had made, and 
pledging themselves to insist on the 
payment of this price. Where this price 
is refused the local sections are request¬ 
ed to notify the secretary of the central 
Association, H. T. Coon, Little York, N. 
Y., and the sales committee promised to 
take it up and assist in disposing of the 
milk at the Association prices. 
Farmers’ Creameries. —I was glad to 
note that the general sentiment of the 
producers present was in favor of the 
farmers owning their own creameries 
and their own shipping stations. Many 
reports and incidents were related show¬ 
ing the wisdom, yes, the absolute neces¬ 
sity of this provision. Numerous inci¬ 
dents were related of dealers going to 
towns where the farmers had no means 
of caring for their own milk, and tak¬ 
ing advantage of these conditions, buy¬ 
ing at a ridiculously low price. Then 
this would be used as a precedent in 
other places to show the alleged market 
prcie of milk. On the other hand, where 
the farmers had their own creamery or 
their own shipping station, they were 
always able to demand better prices. If 
one dealer did not pay it another would, 
and usually, when they find that the 
producers are in earnest about demand¬ 
ing a price, and taking care of their own 
product when their price is refused, the 
dealer comes to the producers’ demands, 
which to the credit and good sense of 
the producers have never been unrea¬ 
sonable even in this time of short sup¬ 
ply, hut even if anything a little below 
what they would be justified in de¬ 
manding for the product. 
Adulterated Milk. —The evil of 
adulteration, which consists in the most 
part of removing part of the cream from 
milk, and selling the remainder as the 
full product of the cow, received con¬ 
siderable attention. Secretary Coon 
spoke forcibly on this phase of the situ¬ 
ation, and asked the Department of 
Agriculture of the State to use the same 
efforts to prevent the adulteration by 
dealers that they now justly use to pre¬ 
vent the producers from doing so. The 
dealers, he said,- could make cheaper 
milk by adulteration than the producer 
can through the honest cow. Assistant 
Commissioner Preston spoke on this 
subject in behalf of the Agricultural De¬ 
partment, and explained how difficult it 
is to find a case against the dealer, even 
when it is known that the skimming 
process has been going on. The diffi¬ 
culty comes from not being able to get 
sufficient evidence that would justify a 
jury in conviction, though everyone 
might feel satisfied that the adulteration 
had actually taken place. Where coop¬ 
erative creameries and shipping stations 
are built and controlled by the farmers 
they are not always managed by them. 
In some cases they are rented to private 
creamerymen and dealers, who at the 
same time guarantee the Association 
price for the milk during the time their 
lease holds for the property. In this 
way the producers get a dividend on 
their investment, and at the same time 
make a satisfactory market for their 
milk. It saves the producers the details 
of the business, and when the leasehold¬ 
er is responsible, or gives satisfactory 
security, it seems like a most desirable 
arrangement. 
A Producers’ Creamery. —The pro¬ 
ducers at Starrucca, Pa., have organized 
a company among themselves, and 
placed a contract for building a cream¬ 
ery, which will serve as a good example 
of the right way to do it. It will hard¬ 
ly meet the approval of the creamery 
promoters, who like to build creameries 
at exorbitantly high prices, but the plan 
will recommend itself to producers in 
other sections. In the first place, the 
Starrucca people went to contractors in 
their own town, and got an estimate for 
the building and equipments that they 
wanted, and stipulated that it must be 
completed by or before December 1. This 
is to be a shipping station and butter 
factory combined. The main building 
is 30x50, with an ice house 30x40, and 
an engine room 18x30. The building is 
sided, sheathed with paper on both sides 
of the studding, ceiled inside and paint¬ 
ed, and the whole thing completed for 
$1,425.50. A creamery of this kind put 
up by the cooperative creameries would 
cost at their regular charges little if any 
short of $4,000. The plan is to rent the 
creamery to a man who will at the same 
time contract for the milk. There is a 
private dealers’ creamery within a few 
rods of the present building. Mr. F. G. 
Lloyd, at Starrucca, Pa., is secretary of 
this company, and where other pro¬ 
ducers are combining for the same pur¬ 
pose he would probably be willing to 
give them the benefit of his experience. 
Milk Prices.— The directors issued a 
declaration of purposes in which they 
recounted the low prices to which milk 
had declined in March, 1898, when the 
present organization took up the work, 
the lowest price for that year being 1% 
cent per quart. In addition to this they 
called attention to the discouragements 
arising from a designed lack of uniform 
price, and the custom of adulterating 
milk alter leaving the producer, particu 
larly in the matter of shipping partly- 
skimmed milk into the market as the 
full product of the cow. The present 
purpose of the organization is declared 
to be: To secure a uniform reasonable 
living price to the producer for his milk; 
to promote reforms in its production, so 
as to obtain a pure, clean, healthy prod¬ 
uct; to protect it from adulteration be¬ 
fore and after it reaches the hands of 
the middlemen; to lessen as far as pos¬ 
sible the unnecessary expense in getting 
the milk from the producer to the con¬ 
sumer; and to increase its use as a food 
by giving to the consumer at a reason 
able price, pure, unadulterated milk in 
good condition. To secure such ends 
they asic the cooperation of all pro 
ducers, and invite the help of the con¬ 
sumer and fair-minded dealers. They 
also pledge the State and city authorities 
assistance in detecting, and bringing to 
justice, all who adulterate milk, and call 
special attention to the practice of some 
unscrupulous dealers who skim the milk 
in part and then send it to market as 
the full product, of the cow. The meet¬ 
ing heartily indorsed these declarations. 
The following resolution was also 
adopted: 
Resolved, Tnat our members are re¬ 
quested to avoid all contracts in future 
for their product without consulting 
with our officials. The directors espe¬ 
cially recommend local associations to 
build and own their shipping stations as 
far as possible, and thus be independent 
of the buyers of milk. 
The directors elected the old officers 
for the ensuing year, the only change 
being that the offices of secretary and 
treasurer were combined in one office 
under Mr. Coon, and the separate office 
of treasurer abandoned. The secretary 
draws $1,000 a year, and the other offi¬ 
cers, I believe, serve without compen¬ 
sation, except for expenses. The finan¬ 
cial report of the secretary was not com¬ 
pleted at this meeting, but it is prom¬ 
ised for the near future. 
The deliberations of this meeting were 
■characterized by fairness, consideration 
of every interest and yet a determined 
purpose to stand together and insist on 
the just rights of the producers. The 
present responsible dealers will promote 
their own future interests by treating 
with them now on an equitable basis 
These farmers are going to have a say 
about the price of milk. They have 
adopted the one method that will give 
them that say. They will put the milk 
into their own factories, and tne dealers 
will either go to them for the milk, or 
forfeit their city trade to them entire 
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