The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-01
WANTFARMEUS TOWN.
100000 Company Is Proposed to Handle
All the Milk Products of the Chicago
District-Kenosha County Produc-
ers in Annual Meeting Today.
From SATURDAYS nailvl

(From Saturdays Daily
Milk producers Of Kenosha county
heard today the story Of the big market
ing plan proposed for the Central Milk
Shippers Union Of the Chicago district
when w. j. Kittlc of Crystal Lake, ILL.,,
secretary Of the association, was the
principal speaker at the annual meeting
OF the Kenosha county organization
which attracted milk shippers and pro-
dueers from every town In the county.
The meeting was held at the Circuit
court room at the county building and
the attendance this afternoon taxed the
capacity of the court room. Kenosha
county is now thoroughly organized by
the milk producers and many of the two
thousand members which Wisconsin has
contributed to the Central Association
during the past year were shippers in
Kenosha county. At the business session
this afternoon two directors will be
named to represent the county organi-
zation Frank II. Holt who has been act
ing president of the general association
for the past six months and who has
been strongly urged for president of
the great association will undoubtedly
succeed himself as one of the directors
to the Central Association. 1t is ex-
pected that Ferdinand Jones of Bas-
sett Is Station will be named as the sec
ond director from Kenosha county.
Much of the sessions today were given
over to the discussion of local problems
but Secretary Kittle was the real
speaker Of the annual meeting. He
outlined at considerable length the great
plan which was being worked out to
make the milk producing business more
omunerative to the farmer without put
ting an additional burden upon the ulti-
mate consumer.
"The real proposition before the milk
shippers today" said Mr.. Kittle, "is
the marketing plan. This plan Is exact
ly what it is called and it proposes to be
the 90 between between the farmer and
the wholesaler. 1t is not plan for dis
tribItion or product further than the
wholesaler. The plan proposed the or
ganization of a company with capital
stock of 100000 and this company will
manipulate the marketing of milk at
wholesale from a central agency in
Chicago which will handle the product
of the farmers in the 10000 square miles
Of territory embraced in what is known
as the "Chicago district. 1t would
handle all milk sold in cans by the far
mer in this great territory, being the
so between for the farmer and tho buyer
but with the distinct understanding
that it is not to be a distributing
agency. We shall not handle the milk
but shall direct the handling of it in the
most economic manner and with the
view of securing for the producer the
highest possible return for his work and
capital invested in the dairy farm. The
proposition is to go farther than taking
care of the marketing of the milk. 1t is
to have something to do with the dis
posal of the surplus milk. You know
the biggest argument of the wholesaler
is that he can not pay better price for
milk on account Of the fact that he can
not dispose of the surplus product. It
is the plan of this big proposed company
to take care of the surplus milk outside
the Chicago market. We propose to
take care of the surplus in the very
territory where it is produced by work
ing out plans IN the best possible and
most profitable manner. This will
mean tho building Of various kinds of
plants for the handling of milk pro-
dacts Cheese plants, perhaps, but we
may DO forced to go into the powdered
milk production business. This bust
ness has been worked out in many large