American Agriculturist, June 28, 1924 
League in Annual Meeting | 
Miller Condemns Committee of 15 as Unlawful 
r FHE annual meeting of the Dairymen’s 
1 League Cooperative Association was 
held in the State armory at Utica on 
Thursday, June 19th. Delegates were 
present representing the 897 locals in the 
organization, chiefly from New York, 
Northern Pennsylvania and Northern 
Newark Valley, N. Y., Dist. No. 21; 
Henry Burden, Cazenovia, N. Y., 
Dist. No.'ll. Seven were re-elected. 
Henry Burden, president of the Caze¬ 
novia National Bank, Cazenovia, N. Y., 
is the only new member on the board. 
After the noon recess, the delegates 
New Jersey. In addition to the regular listened to an inspiring address by John 
dairymen, there was quite a number of 
others directly or indirectly interested 
in agriculture present. 
The morning session was chiefly de¬ 
voted to making the annual reports which 
ended with the fiscal year of the associa¬ 
tion, March 31, 1924. These showed 
that the gross sales made by the associa¬ 
tion of all products 
during the year - ■ " — 
amounted to $75,- 
132,468.64. The 
total milk handled 
amounted to 
3,095,000,000 
pounds. The re¬ 
port of Chester 
Young, the treas¬ 
urer, showed cash 
in bank, $3,057,- 
375.84; plants and 
equipment after 
charging off de¬ 
preciation and 
mortgages,$5,872,- 
690.83; other as¬ 
sets, $8,994,057.22. 
A. McSparran, Master of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania State Grange. This was followed 
by another address by John D. Miller, 
Vice-President and General Counsel of 
the League Association. Mr. Miller 
discussed various phases of the League 
operations, but his most significant state¬ 
ments had to do with the Committee of 
Fifteen. He said 
THE NEW LEAGUE OFFICERS 
T HE. Board of Directors meeting at 
Utica on Friday, June 20, reorgan¬ 
ized for the coming year, electing the 
following officers: 
President—George W. Slocum. 
Vice-Pres.—John D. Miller. 
2nd Vice-Pres.—J. D. Smith. 
Secretary (succeeding Albert Manning, de¬ 
ceased) —J. A. Coulter. 
Treasurer—Chester Young. 
* 
Executive Committee 
Paul Smith, W. U. Rixford, 
F. A. Sexauer, J. A. Coulter, 
G. W. Slocum, ex-officio. 
to the effect that 
any cooperation on 
the part of the 
League to work 
with this Com¬ 
mittee, if the Com¬ 
mittee insisted 
upon fixing prices, 
was impossible 
because the plan 
to fix prices by the 
Committee was 
unlawful and be¬ 
cause also it was 
impossible for the 
League to work 
with any Qf the 
other organiza¬ 
tions on the Committee. He then pro- 
The report stated that the assets are more 
than double the liabilities and that the ceeded to try to show the deficiencies of 
of . the current assets over current the other organizations as reasons [why 
habihties is sufficient to pay 52 per cent, the League could not work with them 
of ail the outstanding certificates of in- In ending his speech, Mr. Miller said 
debtedness without considering the real “i n c i osing may j to th h 
estate values which have been more than Dairymen’s League, if I interpret it correctly! 
conservatively depreciated. At the pres¬ 
ent time, the association has 185 plants, 
of which they own 156, and lease 29. 
In his annual report, George W. Slocum, 
the president, was very optimistic. He 
maintained that the year just passed had 
been a banner year for the association. 
‘We have acquired many new markets. 
will welcome any plan by which this competi¬ 
tive scramble may be ended. The Dairymen’s 
League has a plan elastic enough to be ex¬ 
panded or contracted to take in all or to hold a 
part. It. has a plan by which the burden of 
surplus is equitably distributed among its 
members.. But let me say once for all that the 
Dairymen’s League cannot nor will not directly 
or indirectly enter into any agreement with 
6 ii j i i • v J 1 LU.U any agreement witn 
He said, and have expanded our business any concern that is marketing milk in the 
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generally. We have brought about higher 
efficiency hi our business management. 
. . . To be properly understood is what 
our farmers need most in this new plan of 
marketing,” said Mr. Slocum, “and it 
should be most gratifying to all members 
of the League to know that this move¬ 
ment is more generally endorsed to-day 
than ever before hi our history.” 
He spoke of the difficult time now being 
undergone by all branches of agriculture 
and mentioned the steady decline in milk 
prices during the last few months. He 
said that part of this is due to “competi¬ 
tive conditions within our own territory 
city in competition with the League to raise 
the price of milk. 
May I also state that the Dairymen’s 
League has no authority to say to these three 
able League members on that Committee to 
withdraw, but I hope that that Committee of 
Fifteen at their next meeting on June 28th 
will not again convert themselves into a price¬ 
fixing committee; but. if they do, that the three 
League members will immediately withdraw. 
The Dairymen's League will welcome any 
opportunity to get together.” 
The Milk Situation 
(Continued from page 59If) 
and that “greater production throughout ^ Ult ,^ ey . s ^ ou ^. affiliated 
the world is resnottsihle for the rWW in W „ h a general main organization having 
the world is responsible for the decline hi 
all classifications other than Class I.” 
In speaking of prices, Mr. Slocum said: 
‘‘The average net pool price, which 
includes certificates of indebtedness, is 
$2.01 per hundred pounds as compared 
with $1.83 of the previous year. . . . 
Similar progress,-” he said, “has been 
made in the matter of developing our 
own fluid markets. Of all the milk 
handled through dealers as well as through 
the League’s own plants, 41 per cent, was 
sold in Class I as fluid milk as compared 
with 35.8 per cent, the previous year, an 
increase of 5.2 per cent. Of all the milk 
marketed by the association through its 
selling power over all of the milk. 
We want to say again that it will do no 
good merely to “resolute” a price of milk 
unless there is a plan back of it that will 
make possible the cooperation of the 
different sales organizations and will 
also look forward to controlling in some 
way the vast amount of unorganized 
milk. It is also impossible to try to 
raise the price of Class I. milk without 
at the same time raising the prices of the 
other classes so as to not make the 
differential between them too great. 
In 1916, the farmers of the East had a 
great problem. It was far more compli¬ 
cated and difficult to solve than our 
own plants 51.4 per cent, went into the Ca ^ , aud dll±lcult to solve j aan our 
fluid markets, as against 28.5 per cent. preSGnt f ° ne 1 because farm f rs then were 
the year before, or an increase of 22 9 COIa P a F atl ' v e jy unorganized and had had 
per cent ” ' no tralnm g 111 working together. Those 
r. H.'Thompson, of Holland Patent, SZmarflv^T“d ^ "““‘“'I at . Ie ?f 
New York, chairman of the Board of temporarily To-day we are faced with 
the same wretched situation m the market, 
and in some way there must be leadership 
enough and cooperation enough to work 
out the problem. It would seem that 
if the organizations and the individuals 
would forget everything but the man 
back in the hills and valleys of this 
dairy land who milk the cows, they could 
work together to find a remedy that 
would at least help a little. 
York, ___^ 
Tellers, reported the election of directors 
on May 24th as follows: 
G. W. Slocum, Milton, Pa., Dist. 
No. 24; Chester Young, Napanoch, 
N. Y., Dist. No. 5; Fred H. Sexauer, 
Auburn, N. Y., Dist. No. 12; H. J. Ker¬ 
shaw, Sherburne, N. Y., Dist. No. 13; 
John Rosenbach, Buffalo, N. Y., Dist. 
No. 16; Herbert L. Seeley, Academy 
Comers, Pa., Dist. No. 20; Paul Smith, 
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