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THE RURAL NEW -YORKER 
May 28, 
HISTORY OF A WESTERN MILK “STRIKE.” 
1 wish to give for the benefit of the 
dairymen of the Eastern States the par¬ 
ticulars of the fight between the Tri- 
State Dairy Association, which is com¬ 
posed of milk and cream producers in 
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky who ship 
to the Cincinnati market, and the Deal¬ 
ers’ Association of Cincinnati. To start 
with the real beginning of this move¬ 
ment of the dairymen in this territory 
to bring about their emancipation from 
the autocratic rule of the dealers, from 
which they had suffered for years, as 
they are still doing in so many other 
shipping districts, it might be well for 
me to state .this work of education be¬ 
gan in 1907. Owing to lack of support 
from the dairymen, the movement did 
not gain much headway; however, the 
fires of 1907 were kept smoldering by a 
few “agitators,” as the dealers called 
them. The work of education was be¬ 
ing pushed slowly, but with a certainty 
that no one could doubt the final out¬ 
come. In February, 1909, I saw the 
time was ripe to begin the movement 
which would put the dairy business on 
a paying basis in this territory, and at 
a call to the Indiana producers a meet¬ 
ing was held at Milan, Ind. At this 
meeting a temporary organization was 
formed, and steps taken to get the Ohio 
and Kentucky shippers to join this move¬ 
ment. We were very successful in this, 
for on April 1, 1909, representatives from 
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky met in Cin¬ 
cinnati, and organized the Tri-State 
Dairy Association, with the following 
officers: President, three vice-presidents, 
general secretary, financial secretary and 
treasurer. J. W. Kincaid, Glen Rose, 
Ohio, was elected president, and C. 13. 
Rawlins, Moore’s Hill, Ind., was elected 
general secretary. 
Plans were made to have a whirlwind 
campaign of organizing during the next 
few months, -so the association would be 
strong enough to ‘ suggest” prices before 
the Fall price lists were sent out by the 
dealers. Local branches were organized 
at all the larger shipping stations. These 
locals then elected an advisor to rep¬ 
resent their particular section, when 
called to a meeting of the advisory 
b >ard, this board having control of the 
general policy of the association. We 
were very successful in this campaign 
of organizing, having secured a large 
majority of the producers by the middle 
of July, controlling two-thirds of the en¬ 
tire output of this territory. 
We felt strong enough at this time to 
ask the Dealers’ Association for a con¬ 
ference to discuss the prices for the com¬ 
ing nine months. We met with a refusal 
to meet our representatives to consider 
the situation, claiming we did not know 
anything about the cost of production or 
the cost of handling milk in the city. 
No one will dispute the assertion made 
by the dealers that we did not know 
the cost of production, or we would 
never have tried to produce milk for 
the following prices, which the dealers 
were paying at that time: Commencing 
April 1, $1.30 per 100, or 113/10 cents 
per gallon, until October 1, when the 
Winter prices began, which were $1.62 
per 100, or 11 cents per gallon, de¬ 
livered at stations in Cincinnati, which 
cost the producer two cents per gallon, 
leaving a net receipt of 9 3/10 and 12 
cents per gallon, respectively. After sev¬ 
eral unsuccessful atteiiipts to meet the 
dealers, the. Tri-State Association issued 
a price list to the Dealers’ Association, 
declaring 18 cents per gallon, or $2.08 
per 100, delivered at stations in Cin¬ 
cinnati, to be the association price for 
nine months, commencing August 1, 
1909, and all dealers refusing to pay the 
association price would not receive any 
milk commencing August 1. On July 
31 each local branch met to receive the 
word from Tri-State headquarters in 
Cincinnati if they should discontinue 
shipping milk August 1. The board 
having received no word from any of the 
dealers by six o’clock on this date in¬ 
structions were telephoned to all local 
branches to act accordingly, and the 
“war” was on. 
Quite a number of the dealers agreed 
to pay the .association price after two 
or three days, and they were supplied 
with milk. One of the largest dealers, 
in fact, the “Borden” of Cincinnati, is 
quoted as saying “The fool farmer will 
never stick, and will be shipping milk 
in three or four days,” but I want to 
inform the reader never was a man more 
mistaken than he, for these “fool” farm¬ 
ers did not ship him a pint of milk until 
September 1, when the Tri-State Asso¬ 
ciation voted to accept the dealers’ price’ 
list of 16 cents per gallon, or $1.86 per 
100, commencing September 1, until May 
1, 1910. It is true the dealers refused 
to recognize the association in an official 
manner, but you will carefully note we 
were not “fighting” for recognition, but 
for more money, and we secured it. You 
will further note the Winter prices were 
not set for six months, as had been done 
heretofore, but for eight months. The 
increase in price was from $1.62 per 100 
to $1.86 per 100 for six months, and 
from $1.30 per 100 to $1.86 per 100 for 
two months. Why should the associa¬ 
tion fight for official recognition, when 
we obtained “recognition” in such a 
substantial and material manner? In 
April we issued notice to the dealers 
we would not accept any prices like 
those that were paid last Summer, and 
without “recognition” they offered an 
average of $1.53 per 100 for the 
four months commencing May 1. This 
is a difference of 23 cents more than 
last year before the birth of the Tri- 
State Association. You-ask how much 
this organized effort has benefited the 
producer in this territory? You will no 
doubt be surprised to learn this has 
been the means for the shippers to real¬ 
ize more than $425,000 for their pro¬ 
ducts over the preceding year. There is 
no legitimate reason why we should not 
be able to put the dairy business on a 
paying basis if our members will stand 
as fast and true in the future as they 
have in the past. I would like to sug¬ 
gest to the Eastern dairymen that you 
never will receive a fair and equitable 
price for your products until you learn 
the lesson of organization, and a solid 
front to the “milk barons;” the only way 
in which you can do this is to join your 
local associations. 
We were taught one very important 
thing during the “strike” last August; 
that is, there should be a National as¬ 
sociation of milk producers, covering 
every point where market milk is pro¬ 
duced. Having this in view, the matter 
was taken up with Jas. P. Grier, secre¬ 
tary of the Chicago Association, and an 
invitation was extended to a number of 
associations to send delegates to the 
first annual meeting of the Chicago as¬ 
sociation, which was held in Chicago 
February 7 last, to take action looking 
towards the launching of a National 
Association of Milk Producers. At this 
meeting a committee of five were elected, 
composed of prominent producers of five 
different States, Wisconsin, Illinois, In¬ 
diana, Ohio and New Hampshire, to 
get in touch with the different associa¬ 
tions throughout the country for the 
purpose of having a delegate meeting of 
all associations at some convenient point 
this Summer, so the National associa¬ 
tion could be organized. At this date a 
number of associations have signified 
their intention of having delegates at 
this meeting, and arc heartily in favor 
of this move. 
An association of this magnitude 
would have unlimited influence in se¬ 
curing more remunerative prices for the 
producer, and have influence against ad¬ 
verse legislative acts and health board 
ordinances which are being passed detri¬ 
mental to the dairymen’s interests. If 
any of the readers are interested in a 
National association, communicate with 
Jas. r. Grier, Ashland Block, Chicago, 
111., or C. B. Rawlins, Moore’s Hill, Ind. 
c. H. RAWLINS. 
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Ringbone. 
If you know of any euro for ringbone, 
please give it. One of my borses lias a 
ringbone of more than a year's standing; 
at times is very lame. E. l. p. 
New York. 
After clipping off the hair the veterinari¬ 
an should puneture-fire and blister the part 
(hind pastern) and the horse then should 
be tied up short in stall for six weeks. If 
the ringbone is on a fore pastern this treat¬ 
ment will not avail, and it will be neces¬ 
sary to resort to the operation of high 
unnerving (neutortomy). For this it will 
be necessary to employ an expert surgeon. 
A. s. A. 
Azoturia. 
Will you tell me what causes azoturia 
in a horse, and what the treatment is? 
E. E. s. 
This disease is purely due to overfeeding 
and idleness. It comes on when a hard- 
worked horse is suddenly rested for one or 
more days in the stable and during that 
time given his usual ration of oats or other 
rich food. It may be wholly prevented by 
always making the idle horse take exorcise 
out of doors or to halter when there is no 
work for him to do. atid at the same time 
stopping the grain ration and substituting 
bran or simply allowing hay. Great care 
should be taken to keep the bowels active, 
and in case of a fat, heavy horse, it may 
also be well to stimulate activity of the 
kidneys by giving a tablespoonful of salt¬ 
peter in drinking water or soft feed at the 
time when the idleness is unavoidable. At 
the first sign of an attack the horse should 
be stopped, the harness removed and a 
physic, such as a pint and half of raw 
linseed oil given at one dose. After a 
rest the horse should be gently walked to a 
neighboring stable and the loins and hips 
may then be covered with blankets wrung 
out of hot water or well rubbed with lini¬ 
ment. The urine is dark colored like strong 
•coffee in this disease, and must be with¬ 
drawn with a catheter if the horse goes 
down. Treatment in severe cases should be 
conducted by the graduate veterinarian. It 
is all important to have no cases to treat, 
and this may easily be managed by remem¬ 
bering to exercise horses and feed light 
rations when there is no work for them 
to do. a. s. A. 
Ringworm ; Summer Sore. 
1. Some time ago I hired a bull for two 
weeks, and noticed when he came that he 
had a white place around one of his eyes, 
also several spots on his ear and neck, 
where the hair had fallen off and seemed 
dry and scaly. Now 1 see one of my cows 
is getting tjie same way. Can you tell 
me what it is, and the remedy? 2. I also 
have a mare that has a sore on her pastern 
caused by kicking in the stall about two 
years ago. It had a soft growth on it 
which I thought was proud flesh. I ap¬ 
plied caustic potash and reduced it to a 
common sore, then applied tincture of aloes 
and myrrh. It nearly healed, then broke 
out again. Can you tell me what will 
cure it? J. D. JI. 
Pennsylvania. 
1. The disease is ringworm caused by 
the vegetable parasite known as “tricophy- 
ton tonsurans.” Scrape and scrub each 
spot clean and when dry paint with tinc¬ 
ture of iodine, taking care that none gets 
into the eyes. Afterward rub in iodine 
ointment each other day until well. As 
the disease is contagious., keep affected cat¬ 
tle away from others not yet showing the 
trouble. The parasite grows on damp walls, 
woodwork, fences, posts and such objects, 
and these, therefore, should be cleansed 
and whitewashed where affected cattle have 
been. 
2. This appears to .be a Summer sore due 
to the fungus known as “botryomyces.” 
Once more cut down the sore level with 
the skin, or slough off the surface part 
with caustic, ana then paint it once 
daily with a mixture of half an ounce of 
picric acid to a pint of alcohol. Cover with 
cotton batting and clean bandage each time 
after the application has dried off. The 
mare must not be allowed to bite or lick 
the sore. a. s. a. 
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