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Show Now Market Milk by Co-operatives Reports Show Substantial Increase in Quantity for Last Year. (Prtp.-xred by the I'nluJ States Department at Ay: icuitur:. ) Such data as ar- available indicate that the (juantity of tiuid mill; handled by co-operative associations has been increasing rapidly during the last three to tive years, llepoits collected by the United Stales Department of Agriculture for r,C4 and lO'JT show a substantial increase in quantity for the latter year as compared to the former. Approximately I l.W.IKKM'CO pounds of fluid milk was marketed through co-operative associations in l'J-T. This quantity is nearly one-fifth of the estimated quantity used in continental continen-tal United Suites lor household purposes pur-poses last year. Milk in Large Cities. A large fraction of the total fluid milk used in some of the larger cities passes through eo-c peratwe channels in moving from the producers to the consumers. Such is the ease in I'hil-adelphia, I'hil-adelphia, Baltimore, Washington, New York city, Hartford, Boston, Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minneapolis and other cities. There are three general types of cooperative co-operative enterprises engaged in marketing mar-keting lluid milk. These are the Producers' Pro-ducers' Bargaining association, the Producers' Distributing association and the Consumers' Distributing association. asso-ciation. The bargaining association functions chiefly in the determination of the monthly price- to be paid by private distributors to the producers. About GO per cent of the fluid milk marketed co-operatively is under the control of the bargaining associations. It is this type of association which operates in the larger cities. Distributing Associations. The producer-operated distributing association assembles, processes and delivers milk to consumers, such as hotels, restaurants and private families. fam-ilies. About 40 per cent of the milk marketed co-operatively, is handled by this kind of producers' organization. In general, these distributing associations associa-tions operate in the small cities, although al-though there are producers' associations associa-tions distributing milk at retail in a few of the very large cities. At the present time there is but one outstanding consumers' co-operative for handling fluid milk. This is an association as-sociation serving the residents of Minneapolis. The enterprise buys its supply of milk from a producers' association, asso-ciation, puts it in bottles and distributes distrib-utes it to the homes of its members and others. |