The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1919-06-05
MANY FARMERS JOIN
TO RAISE DAIRY PRICES
Whatcom County Association Gets
Host OF Members in Drive To Get
Fair Returns

The Whatcom County Dairymen's s
Association is having great success
in inducing the dairymen of the dis
trict to join the organization, and to
aid in the campaign for a fair price
for dairy products.
Homer DERRICK, field manager in
charge of the associations campaign,
helped organize the raisin growers
of California, and is familiar with
the methods for making a co-operat-
i've venture of this kind successful.
To inform Lynden dairymen about
-she Associations plans. Mr.. Derrick
Sto0ay issued the following state
ment:
The Whatcom County Dairymen's
Association, one of the Units Of the
United Daiiymen's Association of
Washington. is being organized in or
der that the individual dairymen in
this State may obtain for his product
what it costs him 70 produce the
same. plus fair Profit.
l wonder how many of the people
living in our cities and towns in the
State of Washington ever stop to
think when paying their eleven cents
or fraction or more for quart Of
milk, that the man who really pro-
duced the milk, who owned the cow
and the land On which she grazed
and on which he raised his winter
feed or paid around $500 per ton
for simply her hay during the winter
months, when she woulo eat three
quarters of ton per month, and who
fed and watered her twice day and
MIXED her twice day. who paid the
County Assessor the taxes levied up
on her, and who owned the houses,
wagons and implements necessary for
taking care of her, that that same
man only obtained for his product
when he sold the same to the distrib-
utors in our towns and cities or the
eondenseries in this section OF the
r.te the small sum of five cents and
a fraction for each quart of milk.
Take your pencil and paper Mr..
Consumer and figure that it will
take at least two acres of land in the
State of Washington to keep one COW,
figure her cost price to you. she be-
ing just an ordinary cow at $4,000
figure your taxes on her at per cent,
figure that during term OF years
YOU will lose an animal now and then
figure that the COW like the human
being is subject to sickness and death
necessitating occasional calls by a
veterinary, figure money necessar!
for sire purposes or the owning ol
one, figure the amount you would
have to have invested in horses, wa
CONS, plows and the various impie'
ments. and you will find, when you
have estimated the above items o.
expense which are only few enter
ing into the cost of keeping a COW
that you will have sum whlch VII
he an eye-opener to you. You VII
then have arrived at partial cos
of the expense as above set 1orth
and then in order to find out VIVA
It will cost per gallon or per quart
ALL YOU have to do will be TO esti
mate and We will take larger esti
mate than the United States Govern
ment statistics give as the anhua
nroduction for the cows in the coun
/ try. which figure will be four thou
s.,nd mounds of milk, divide the fou
3 thousand into the expense Item
above set out, and you will. have thel
the expense per gallon, ana theh ai
Won will have to do will be to di'ia
II nv four in order to arrive at IN
cost per quart.
Now. how would you like to
,iad down to the farm three hundre
and sixty-five days of the year. an
in order to get the best results iroi
vour COW or cows, milk them t"lc
a day regularly, work from early u
Lotto with the help of your wife an
family, and then be absolutely lorce
under present conditions to aiio'
some person, firm or corporation, o'
ganized and capitalized to do the pu'
ing and selling end of your pusihes
and naturally at a profit in order
s,cceed to set the price on your PR
dpct from day to day, whether
meant a profit or loss? Would
he any incentive to you to go "oae
IN the land?" l think not.
The dairy business ant'many o.h'
lines of farming today IN the 'aiio'
States is being conducted IN ma
hazard and aimless fashion. Ihe on
solution of the problem today II
these people or any other people
! the land producing any common
nroduced generally all over 'he s'a
;s cooperation, one man 'ouas'
respectiye of his financial stanaihs
,hs number Of cows he owns Is po'