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“A railroad man’s 
railroad” 
'E'ROM the ranks, New York Central men rise by 
merit through positions of greater and greater 
responsibility. 
Ability, industry and character are the sole tests of 
promotion, and they are applied all the way up the 
ladder to the highest executive positions. 
Because of the rigid application of this democratic 
process of selection, the New York Central has built 
up a morale that railroad men throughout the country 
regard as a model. 
New York Central standards of public service have 
been developed on the solid foundation of individual 
opportunity. 
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Our large factory and our superior equipment enable us to produce economically and 
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American Agriculturist, October 4, 1924 
Farmer-owned Milk Plants 
An A. A. Radio Talk Broadcast from WEAF 
lyrOST New York By M. B. GARLOCK have the organiza- 
1 State dairy President Eastern States tion, information and 
'arms can be pur- Milk Producers, Inc. facilities which will 
chased at less than enable him to bargain 
the replacement cost of their buildings, on an even basis with the organized buyer 
Either the farm lands or the buildings on of his products. 
them are worth nothing. If the buildings 
burn, the owner cannot ordinarily afford, 
as a business proposition, to put up new 
ones, because the new buildings will not 
add their cost to the value of the farm. 
The farmer has learned that the iso¬ 
lated, independent creamery which en¬ 
deavors to market its milk without 
contact with other farmer organizations 
doing likewise is at a big disadvantage. 
It is better to spend the money in buying It is equipped with a limited fund of in- 
another farm already equipped. This 
condition which has existed in practi¬ 
cally all branches of farming in the United 
States for over a generation, indicates 
the unhealthy condition of our great 
basic dairy industry. 
As a result of economic pressure, 
farmer-owned and controlled country 
marketing organizations have been de¬ 
veloped in all parts of the United States 
by farmers producing all kinds of farm 
produce. They process, store and market 
a very large part of our total agricultural 
products. They are the big outstanding 
formation and experience when negotiat¬ 
ing with an experienced .buyer who has 
available information gathered from other 
plants which he may own or control or 
from an Association of which he is a 
member. If the farmer sells his goods 
for less than they are worth, the benefit 
is seldom passed on to the consumer. 
These local units, therefore, recognize the 
necessity for their grouping together in 
larger associations for the purposes of 
mutual protection and to enable them to 
render collectively services which they 
cannot render singly. 
One of the outstanding exhibits, if not the most attractive, at the New York State Fair 
this year was that of the Department of Farms and Markets, representing the milk 
production of New York State. It was in the form of a miniature Niagara Falls in 
milk, shown above, finding its origin in little rivulets of milk with their headwaters, 
the dairy farms of the Empire State. According to the Department, the production 
of milk per minute is 9,970 pounds or 4,980 quarts, or a daily production of 14,350,000 
pounds or 7,170,000 quarts. After the milk came over the falls, representing produc¬ 
tion, it was diverted into various channels representing consumption. In the fore¬ 
ground it ran into large bottles, while to the right and left the milk ran into miniature 
cheese factories or creameries representing the dairy manufacturing interests of 
New York. 
features of the agricultural movement 
of the present day. They are the result 
of a real, economic need and are a recog¬ 
nition on the part of the producer that 
he must solve his own problems by his 
business ability and must not rely on 
political measures for relief. 
The New York Milk Producers, pio¬ 
neers in this movement, have during the 
past decade and especially during the 
past five years been acquiring the coun¬ 
try facilities needed for the processing 
and shipping of their milk. At present. 
New York dairymen owm over two hun¬ 
dred modern milk plants capable of sup¬ 
plying New York City on short notice 
with its entire requirements. 
The experience acquired in the crea¬ 
tion and operation of these farmer-owned 
marketing organizations has taught the 
farmer much:—He has learned that 
his farmer-owned enterprises depend 
for their ultimate success upon their 
ability to quicken, shorten and cheapen 
the processing, grading, storing and dis¬ 
tributing of his products. They must 
justify their right to permanent existence 
by their ability to render necessary 
service economically and to the satis¬ 
faction of the consuming public. The 
farmer realizes that the most he can 
get for his products is their value as 
established by the free operation of the 
law of supply and demand. But this 
law does not operate freely when the 
farmer is at a disadvantage. He must 
The farmer has learned that the size 
of his organizations is limited by the 
abilities of the farm leadership available 
for directing and carrying them on. It is 
unsafe to hire experts to run a business 
for which the farm leadership is respon¬ 
sible but which the farm leadership has 
not yet developed the ability to supervise 
or direct. Fortunately, this farm leader¬ 
ship is growing and developing all the 
time and each year it is possible, using 
the talent already developing, to suc¬ 
cessfully undertake larger and more 
complicated tasks. Our farms have 
furnished men qualified to head our 
National, State and Municipal Govern¬ 
ments and leaders for every line of worth¬ 
while endeavor. They will certainly 
furnish these farmer-owned organiza¬ 
tions men of equal caliber who will suc¬ 
cessfully and conscientiously serve the 
farmer marketing organizations of the 
immediate future. 
Can Operate Without Monopoly 
The farmer lias learned that farmer- 
owned marketing organizations can and 
will succeed without monopoly. There 
is no farmer organization which has 
adopted a program which can succeed 
only with monopolistic control. It is, 
however, to the interest of both producer 
and consumer that these organizations 
be large enough and strong enough to 
secure the men, money, materials, equip¬ 
ment and volume of business necessary 
