Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-12-13


dlcbury. at 1880 o'clock Saturday after
noon, Dec 81 4 number of good speak
ers. including Commissioner u. = Brig
ham. will be present according TO am
nouncemert 10y Gordon d. NacQuiN-
lev, secretary
About this time last year patrons OF
the Middlebury branch Of the Mutual
McDermott Milk Company were worry
ing about $1,000 due them for mix
when the McDermott Company went
into bankruptcy. News OF the bank
ruptcy came Ike thunderbolt to the
dairvmen Of the community and 1t
found most OF them unprepared to take
care of their milk even temporarily
For 3 weeks following, milk meetings
were held almost daily either at the
Grange Hail or Farm Bureau Once
a committee headed by l.. b. Cornwall
of NliddieDury was elected to file claims
for the dairymen and arrange Tor the
disposal of the milk. Dairy and cream
erv specialists from t. /. Brigham
Commissioner staff came to Middle
bury and advised with the committee
and in an open meeting the posSiDih-
ties and requirements of a cooperative
creamery or milk plant were put be-
fore the farmers.
Finally, it came to a point where inc
plant had to be disposed OF at once
Mutual McDermott and the farmers
of Middlebury were given an option on
the business for $1,000 Here Is where
the test came for the farmers OF Mid
dlebury and vicinity-buy the plant
and find their own market, have cou-
troll of their own business or let Smell
field Farms take it over, and continue
on in the same way; dependent on the
milk company. In the face OF a great
deal of opposition few dairymen DelleV-
ing it to be for the communitys iGter'
est in the long run organized themselves
into the Addison County Cooperative
Dairy Co. Inc, and took over the Tor
mer business of the McDermott 60
with the understanding that the S'o,ool
paid should be turned in to help make
up the $1,000 deficit.
From that time on things cane Oh
very rapidly and on February "A the
farmers plant received milk, az vi
5000 TBS. from 80 diaries. From the be-
ginning the company has paid Dairy
mems League prices to its patrons, IN
the s months the Dairy Company has
been in operation it has paid its patrons
S92,537.l5. The patronage has steadily
increased until at the present tme ~
patrons are delivering milk to the Farm
er's pint amounting to ll,Ooo IDS
daily. A very fine market has been 10,
Gated, The Grocer's Milk Company Of
New York City. The entire output OIL
the plant has been contracted Tor {
months at Dairymen's League prices, a
bond being placed in the National Bank
of Middlebury by the New York Com
pany sufficient to cover the value OF
one months milk.
The Addison County Cooperative
Dairy Co. Inc. under the successful
direction of the board of directors, in
person of Elmer Cowles, President; +
B. Cornwall, Vice president; Gordon
MacQuivery, Sec.,; R. F, Pinney Treas
urer. Edward Peet OF Cornwall LIE
Grand Gorham, Floyd Reese, and B
o. Wales have demonstrated that II
takes very little time for dairymen to
organize the marketing end OF Their
business and carry it on successfully
Another feature of this proposition has
been the close harmony of the Farm
ers and their Bank at Middlebury
Much credit is due to the National
Bank of Middlebury in swinging the f.
nancial part of the farmers plant