New-York tribune., 1911-09-01
| MILK TRUST PROPOSED
Dairymen's League Receives An
Offer to Join New Union.
WOULD DROP MIDDlEMAN
New Workers with Unlimited
Capital Said To Be Back OF
Scheme of Control.
fBy Telegraph to The Tribune. J


Newburg, n Y, Aug. 3l.-"From the
dairy to the table" is the slogan Of what
IS known as the "Grangers, Dealers ana
Consumers Union" which met in confer
ence with the directors OF the Dairymen'
League. Incorporated, at the United States
Hotel to-day. The names of those making
up the new body OF economists were not
made public, as the leaguers were deter
mined to find out what there was in the
proposition before any one had chance to
get at them.
The New Workers did not register but
were at the session, that continued until
late this afternoon AS the leaguers put
it, the object is to form cooperative
association, made up of the producers and
distributors, thereby eliminating the mid
dleman. Action was deferred until the
union and It's hackers can be investigated.
The membership of the Dairymen
League is based on the number Of milk
producing COWS owned by the members.
Those owners who attended to-day's ses-
sion were the president. John Y. Gerow, Of
Washingtonville; Warren ID. Haggerty,
vice-presdent, Of Sussex. y. j.; Albert
Manning, secretary, Otsville. y. Y; ID. NJ.
O'Connor, of East Greenwich Washington
County. Andrew Haight, Millbrook. Dutch
ess County; w. II. Danehy, Canastota; l..
Il. Young, of Greene, ~ Y; D. II. Slterm.
Of Margaretyile, n. Y; Oscar Bailey, of
Brewster, y. Y; Frank Sherman. of CO.
pake. n. Y; Wallace Stever, of Mellen-
vile, y. Y. l.. NJ Hardin, OF Sussex, n. j.
+. D. Kershaw, Of Onondaga County and
of nd V
The Dairymen's League represents five
states-New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania Massachusetts and Connecticut-and
its members produce most of the milk used
by the consumers in those respective states.
The territory covered by the league en-
braces about fifteen or twenty counties in
New York State. including Orange, Dutch
ess, Sullivan and Ulster; In New Jersey.
Sussex and Warren counties; In Connect
cut, Fairfield and Ltchield counties; in
Massachusetts Sheffield County; in Penn
sylvania, Wayne, Bradford and Wyoming
counties.
Representatives Of the New York union,
which wants to handle all of the products
OF the farmers, said they had unlimited
capital, and are fully capable to dispose
or all the mix produced Dy members Oh tuc
Dairymens League They said they con-
trolled five hundred distributing points.
Their project is TO deliver the products OF
the farm and dairy from the producer as
directly as possible 10 the consumer. BY
eliminating the middlemen, they pointed
out how the cost of handling the milk under
the contemplated cooperative plan would
he materially decreased.
The Darymen's League is affiliated with
the State Grange three of the members
of the board Of directors being appointed
each year by the grange II is the inten-
ton of the Dairymen's League to cooper
ate with the State Grange in the consd-
Grafton OF the proposition TO permit any
single corporation to- handle all the farm
products.
At this afternoons session the committee
10 investigate the proposition Of the New
York promoters was appointed. The COM
mite. consists of President John y. Gerow.
Oscar Bailey. of Brewster. y. Y; D. II.
Sliterm, OF Margaretville. y. Y; l.. NJ
Hardin and Albert Manning, of Otsvilie
y. Y. and the leagues vice-president, w
ID. Haggerty, ex-ofiicio.