Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-10
Milk Trust
Methods
TOEnd
Dairy Farmers of Southern Cali
fOrnia Revolt Against the
Milk Trust
Will Market Their Own Milk Direct.
Both Retail and Wholesale

Perhaps no event that has occurred
In business circles during the past year
is of more interest and Importance to
the people of Los Angeles than the
action recently taken by the da1rymen
of Southern California in organizing the
Southern California Dairy Association.
This movement grew out of the un-
just and oppressive policy of the milk
combine, or Milk Trust, as it is gen.
orally called, which has endeavored to
monopolize the milk business in Los
Angeles since its organization about a
year ago. So bold has the Milk Trust
become of late that it has not hesi-
tated to state openly that its policy
is one of determination against any
and every dairyman or dairy company
that has the temerity and effrontery,
according to Trust ideas, of attempt-
ing to sell or deliver milk to any GUS
toner, either retail or wholesale, In
the city of Los Angeles. AS result
public sentiment is becoming wonder
fully awakened and embittered against
this unlawful and piratical attempt
to destroy all competition and monop-
olize the marketing of SO prime and
universal necessary of life as milk.
The combine has already made such
headWay in its policy of determination
that nearly every dairy in the city
year or two ago has either been put
the Crescent Cream and Butter COM
pany, which seems to be holding it's
own against the combine; and now that
this new Goliath has come upon the
scene, in the person of this Dairy AS
sociation of farmers, the Crescent
Company will have a powerful ally in
this fight on which so much depends.
The purposes of this New Dairy AS
sociation are tWofold: First, to market
ne re
the consumer, both retail and whole
sale; and second, to produce and de-
liver a milk so high in quality and so
pure and sanitary that every drop of
it will be guaranteed by the Associa-
ton and fully certified. The Associa-
tion will be ready for actual business
and the regular supply of milk by the
18th of June, and it's place of business
will be one of the largest and best
equipped of the kind in the west 1t
is located at 241 to 249 Winston street.
Already nearly nine-tenths of the dairy
farmers in the entire territory tributary
to Los Angeles have Joined the Asso-
citation and have contracted to market
their milk through it. BY producing
their own milk and marketing 1t d.
rect, and through the channels of their
own organization, these dairy farmers
will be able to laugh to scorn the milk
trust. The marketing will be done in
much the same manner as Is done by
the several Fruit Exchanges, which
have proved so beneficial to the fruit
business of California, by putting an
end to the INSCRIPTIONS methods of the
middle men and brokers, at whose
mercy the fruit men previously had
been.
All the pasteurizing and cold storage
work for the new association is to be
done by the Crescent Cream and But
ter Co. at its fine new plant on Win
ston street. We bespeak for this new
concern an enormous patronage, espe-
cially from all people who appreciate
the difference between good milk and
moor milk. Their telephone numbers
are the same on both phones, Ex. 1444.
If you want fine milk like that you
used TO get on the old farm back home.
and that has all the cream still In 1t,
you had better ring them up.