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Show DAIRY OMRS I fifld 10 61 I INDEPENDENCE I I Milk Producers Plan to Shake M Off Dictation by the ! Distributors I N. E. A Staff Special. NEW YORK, July 19 A stop for- Ml ward in the direction of complete iu- dependence from milk-dlstrlbutlnir companies Is being taken by th- dairy fl fanners of New York and five adpoln- I Some 83,000 of these, organized in the Dairymen's League. luc , already own co-operatively 12 country milk plants, and a campaign has just been i launched to establish new plants in I in different sections of league territory. terri-tory. The new project Involves rnis Ing a fund of m arly $4,000,000. All Milk Products : The plants include fluid milk shipping ship-ping stations, butter and cheese factories fac-tories and places for tho manufacture j of condenser, powdered and evaporated evaporat-ed milk and other milk products. Until fanners set out to get pos-session pos-session of country milk stations all such plants were owned by the dlstrib-utors dlstrib-utors and manufacturers. Under the I new scheme of things the farmer will be a manufacturer as well as a pro- According to league officials tho co-operative plan will give the pro-ducer pro-ducer a steady market, for his milk and j assure him a more equitable dlstribu-Ition dlstribu-Ition of the proceeds. Co-operative ac-Jtivlties ac-Jtivlties will result in reduced costs,' the declare, and consumers will reap the benefits jj Fair Price, More Trade. I Fair prio-. the add, Will bring increased in-creased volume of business and Increased In-creased returns to the producer-manu-1 faotlurer Only recently the American relief 'administration placed with tho Dairy-men's Dairy-men's League Co-operative association Ian order for something like e.000,000 I enns of the Dairymen's league brand j of sweetened condensed milk. The to-Ital to-Ital deliveries will amount in value to about ll.C.fift.OOO. |