The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-08-02

There was meeting of milk producers
at the Court House on Saturday afternoon
to perfect an organization for self-pro
tention and better prices.
George Wildes, Of Jacobstown, chair.
man of former meetings, presided.
l. E. Harrison, member Of committee
appointed at the last meeting to confer
with the Interstate Milk Producers
Association, reported that he had attend
ed meeting of that association. At
that meeting there had been a discussion
about establishing stations to take care of
surplus milk, but the proposition was
laid over. The association fixed dues
at minimum of one dollar year and
ten cents additional for each COW above
ten in number in members herd.
]. Walter Pancoast, of Woodstown,
chairman of the Interstate Association,
made an address He said it is only a
question of short time when natural
causes will force up the price of milk so
that dairymen can obtain a reasonable
profit.
The object of organizing is to insure a
more equitable and stable price of milk,
and 1t is believed that the producers are
going to fix the price for which they shall
sell their milk and will no longer take
the price dictated to them by the dealers.
Mr.. Pancoast said that the Boston and
Cincinnati producers have had fights last
ing several weeks, and had been success
full in getting raises, justified by the in
creased cost of production. After the
association had fixed the price for August
at AZ cents quart, the Philadelphia deal
ers yielded gracefully when they under
stood the situation forced upon dairymen
by the drought and consequent high
prices. These dealers say that the prices
must be raised by the producers before
there can be any change of the wholesale
price in the market. and rather than have
dissatisfaction and carelessness among the
dairymen they would prefer to pay re-
munerative price.
Mr.. Pancoast said that a proper return
cannot be obtained unless the producers
take the initiative. They must be forced.
The speaker expressed the belief that this
year the dairymen can get along without
any separating equipment to take care of
surplus, but before decisive action is
taken upon the higher price question 1t
would be well to be prepared for the fu-
ture, as conditions may not always be as
good as they are now. The plan of the
association is to install separators in var
ious communities and have a central
churning plant, where all the milk could
be handled whenever there were grounds
for refusing to ship because of dissatisfac-
ton over the price. Mr.. Pancoast said
that he believed the price for September
would be the same as fixed for August.
At the conclusion Of his address, the
Burlington County branch of the Inter-
State Association was formed with George
Wildes, Of Jacobstown, chairman; A. G.
Buck, of Wrightstown, secretary, and
Walter 1. Black, of Chesterfield, treasurer.
Another meeting will be held in the court
house on August 81, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon.
Walter l. Black, A. G. Buck and John
OLeary, Jr., were appointed committee
to meet with the executive committee of
the Interstate Association on August "a.
and to report at the meeting here on Aug
ust 9th.