The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-10-31
SHOWS HOW HADLEY
HELPED DAIRYMEN
Bulletin Tells OF Fight Congressman
Made For Higher Prices OF Milk;
Introduced Resolution

How Lin Hadiey has been working
for the dairymen of Whatcom County
at Washington is described in bull
letin that is being circulated this
week.
/ Says the bulletin:
On June LIST of this year, the dairy
in critical condition. The market
price of milk YVES but $2.15 per hun
dred pounds. Prominent dairymen Of
this district computed the cost of pro-
duction from seventy-nine herds that
were officially tested by the govern
ment, and found that the cost Of pro-
duction was far in excess of the mar
ket price obtainable, and that it was
impossible for the dairy owner to buy
| feed and produce milk at the then
price, without sustaining most sub
compelled to beef their stock and go
out of business.
Faced by this serious condition, the
dairymen of this district applied for
relief through their congressman, Mr..
Lin H. Hadley. The matter was i'm
mediately taken up by him thru all !
available avenues and pressed with |
unremitting diligence.
A resolution was prepared jointly
by Congressman Hadley and Senator
Jones, and introduced on July 9th of
this year, by Mr.. Hadley in the House
and by Mr.. Jones in the Senate, call
ing upon the United States Food Ad-
to furnish the following
First-What steps it has taken to
tx or regulate the prices for the pro-
ducts of the milk condenseries of the
United States.
Second-What steps it has taken
10 fix or regulate the prices to be paid
by the condenseries to the milk pro-
iucers for their milk.
Third-What action has been TAX
en- by the condenseries, with the
or approval of the United
States Food Administration. to fix
Or control the prices of thier pro-
ducts or the profits they shall make
during the war.
Fourth-If no steps have been
taken by the United States Food Adj
to regulate or control
the prices charged or the profits
made by the condenseries why such
action has not been taken.
Fifth-What steps have been TAX
en- to ascertain whether the prices
paid the milk producers is ample to
pay the cost of production, and If no
such steps have been taken why it
has not been done.
The introduction of this resolution
resulted in the immediate advance of
thirty-five cents per hundred in the
price of milk. Judge Lamb of the
Food Administration was sent to Pu-
get Sound for a conference with the
condensers and producers. Numerous
interviews and conferences have been
had and are being had by Congress
man Hadley with the representatives
of the Food Administration, and ev-
cry phase and angle of the dairy sit
uation is being reviewed to the end
that the producers may be fully and
fairly protected.
The success of such efforts is illus
trated by the following: On August
LIST the price advanced to $2.75 per
hundred pounds; on August 18th to
sass; on September LIST to $500; on
September 18th to 1910, and on Oc-
tober LIST to $3.50, its present price.
Mr.. Hadley has been tireless in
his efforts to advance the interests Of
the milk producers in his district. To
quote the language of Senator Ed.
the leading dairymen of the state.
Brown of Whatcom County, one Of
Mr.. Hadley lis doing everything he
can for the benefit Of the dairymen
,of the State of Washington, and IL
any man who owns COW votes
against him for reelection, he is sim
ply voting against his own personal
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