The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-22
Milk Producers Of Three
States Get Ready for An
nual Meeting in February
FELLOWS TO QUIT PRESIDENCY
New Demands Will be Made on Whole
salers For More Equitable Prices for
Milk During the Coming Summer
Season-Will Seek Other Reforms.

Farmers are deeply interested in the
annual meeting of the Milk Producers
Association to be held at Hotel Sher-
man, Chicago, Monday. February End,
and especially in the selection of a
president to succeed Elmer J. Fellows,
who has announced his retirement.
Milk Standard to be Discussed
One of the important questions to be
settled will be the standard for milk
by butter fat test. During the past
few days big bottling and condensing
firms have been paying premium on
milk of certain standard and taking
out reduction on all milk falling be-
low the standard. The standard has
been fixed by most of them at 3.S.
Some peroducers contend that the
standard of 3.5 is fair and that dairy
men who reach that standard are deal
ing honestly with their buyers and
should receive the fixed market price
for their milk.
Cattle Embargo to be Discussed
The question Of the tuberculin test
for cattle may be discussed as many of
the milk producers and shippers to the
Chicago market are at sword IS points
over the state embargo on cattle which
have not been subject 20 a taber-
culin test
Mr.. Fellows has been a vigorous foe
of the tuberculin test and the board of
directors has stood with him. On the
other hand many of the members have
been in favor of the test and it is
possible that the question will be come
an issue in the election.
Among the important business to be
transacted will be the election of of
ficers and the announcement made by
Elmer J. Fellows Of st. Charles, that
he will not be candidate for rezelec-
tion is liable to bring on a lively fight.
Fellows Announces Retirement.
Mr.. Fellows makes a declaration re-
garding his decision to retire from
the presidency Of the association which
is in part as follows:
81 am not candidate for reelection
to the position of president of the Milk
Producers Association. My family
and personal affairs have stronger
claim on my time and energy than its
welfare.
This decision is no surprise to
many to whom | made the statement
at the last annual meeting, and again
to the board of directors of the asso-
citation at meeting early in Novem-
Der of the last year.
Besides taking up much valuable
time. it has drawn heavily (for me)
from personal funds over and above all
moneys received at the hands of the as
ISOLATION, drain of both time and
money which | can no longer stand.
+" However, great and expensive as
the task has been for me, I would not,
if | could, in view of the great achiev-
ments Of the association, recall one
hour Of the time or one dollar of the
money spent and see the dairy farmer
delivered over to the health theorist
and political CRATER as he was threat
ened to be FIVE years ago
What are these great achieve
mentsg A milk trust smashed to
smithereens; horde of hungry graft
ers driven back from the farmers
herds, and the price of milk again
placed on basis Of an eight-cent re-
tail price, putting more than two mil
lion dollars in the dairyman IS pockets
without advancing the price to the
consumer for which the producer
would have been held responsible. =