St. Tammany farmer., 1911-08-12
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MAKE A MOVE
Rousing.. Meeting Held and
Business Talked Over.
Will Now Organize a State
Wide Association.
Unfair Treatment is Com
planned of in Shipments.
Nelson Offers to Sell Out to
the Association.

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Hammond, La, Aug. S.-The
movement among the dairymen OF
the various sections of the state for
better treatment and better prices
a. the hands of the New Orleans milk
dealers, which has been agitated for
the past month, eliminated today in
rousing meeting in Baltzell Hall,
which was attended by large delega-
tions of producers from Kenner,
| Ponchatoula, Hammond, Amite,
Roseland, Tangipahoa, Lindsay, Gov
ington, Abita Springs, Slaughter,
Kleinpeter and various other milk
producing centers of Louisiana.
The meeting was planned several
weeks ago, and organizers have visit
ed all the dairymen within reach of
the New Orleans market for the pur-
pose of working up sentiment in
favor of the organization of an as
scciation state wide in its scope,
which will enable the producers to
combat the situation absolutely In
regard to the sale of milk and to
fix the price for which it will be sold.
The farmers have long complained
OF the treatment they have, received
at the hands of the city buyers in
arbitrarily changing the price of milk
at will, as we'll as shopping back large
quantities of milk as sour, from
which many of the dairymen claim
the cream has been extracted. These
are the main reasons for the organi-
Fzation of the association, which was
formed here to-day.
The association will be known as
the Mills Prodncarss Protective Union,
and over 100 dairymen signed the
rolls as charter members. The officers
elected at to-day's meeting are:
Thomas Midland, of Hammond.
president; John Saal, of Amite,
sheriff of Tangipahoa parish, vice
president; J. M. Blacne, of Ham,
mond, secretary-treasurer and or
ganizer. Over $500 gallons of milk
were pledged to be sold through the
union. Mr.. N. o. Nelson, of New
Orleans, who is one of the largest
buyers in that city, made proposi-
ton to the un;ln to sell them on
liberal terms the two plants controll-
ed by him, which proposition will
b, later considered. The union sent
a telegram to the president of the
State Board of Health pledging it's
hearty support in enforcing the regu-
lations of the board for clean dairies
and pure milk. The meeting this
afternoon was enthusiastic from
start to finish, and was addressed
BY some of the most prominent men
il the dairy sections of the state.
After the organization of the union
had been completed the question of
fixing the price of milk came up. 1t
was the unanimous opinion that the
scale should be regulated by the sea-
sons, and should be higher during
the winter months than in the sum-
mer, but as there were large numbers
who were unable to remain to the
close of the day session, this ques-
tion was left open to be settled at
the meeting which will be held to-
night, together with several other
details. The organization of this
union is conceded to be the most inn
portant step ever taken by the dairy
men Of the state and will prove a
long step toward the settlement of
the vexed question of the production
and sale of pure milk for the city of
New Orleans.
Hammond, La, Aug. s.-Last
nights session of the Milk Dealers
Protective Union drew even a larger
attendance of the dairymen than the
meeting in the afternoon. and was
called to order by the vice president,
Sheriff John Saal. William Laferrier,
one of the Oldest milk dealers of
New Dreams, addressed the union On
the situation in regard to the milk
business of the city, saying that as
long as he had been in business he
had never had surplus, and did
not get 100 gallons of sour milk in
a year.
The manner of selling was brought
up, and the can measurement method
adopted. Statistics and figures were
introduced by several members,
showing that the cost of producing
a gallon of milk is from 16 to 10
cents in the country districts.
The price which it is proposed to
charge the New Orleans dealers was
fully discussed in all its bearings.
and the figures finally decided upon
are 26 cents per gallon for the six
months from September l to March
l, and 20 cents for the remaining
six months, from March | to Sept. |
1. These prices will go into effect
Aug. / 5, and the pay-days were fixed
for the 5th and Goth of each month.
The remaining hours of the ses-
SIGN, which was not adjourned until
midnight, were devoted to practical
talks by the members on various
subjects connected with the dairy
business. Several more signatures
We're received to the membership roll, |
which is now in the neighborhood |
OF $50.
The next meeting of the union will |
be held at this place August q.