The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1919-05-08
DAIRYMEN TO HEAR
PLANS OF ORGANIZING
Lynden Men Urged To Attend I'm.
portant Session To Discuss Pro.
gram For Combining

dalrymen OF Whatcom County and
State that promises to do much to
better conditions in the industry and
give the dairyman a fair price for
his product will be discussed atan
important meeting Saturday at 10
a. m. at Liberty Hall. Bellingham.
All dairymen of Lynden ere urged to
attend.
The following announcement of the
plans of the Association has been
prepared by Ernest Sorenson, man
ager for the county dairy associat-
ion:
Saturday, May the tenth, will be
Ia day long to be remembered by the
Dairymen of Whatcom County for on
that day the Board of Trustees of the
WhatcOm Dairymen's Association
will explain to the membership of the
Association the new plan of organ
ization which has recently been ad
opted by their board. and which was
outlined at meeting of the Associa-
tion in the month of April when Mr..
]. A. Scollard, President of the Unit
ed Dairymen's Association of Wash
OF the various counties of the west
ern slope, explaining the plan herein
referred to. The Board of Trustees
of the Whatcom Association, since
their April meeting have given fur
ther thought and consideration to
the plan and after Mr.. Conner Thorn
as, the attorney for the Association
made a special trip with Mr.. Mcleod
to Seattle and consulted with Mr..
Earl G. Rice, attorney for the United
Dairymen's Association of Washing
ton and the Board of Directors of the
United Dairymen's Association. the
Whatcom Board is now ready to go
ahead with the work of putting the
new plan into full operation.
At the meeting Saturday of this
week the Board of Trustees and Mr..
Thomas will explain to the member
ship all the details in connection
Herewith from a business and legal
standpoint.
Mr.. Homer Derrick has been en-
gagged by the United Dairymen's AS
sociation of Washington 70 come to
this state and assist the dairymen OF
g state in the organization OF the
- Ndustry. Mr. Detrick for number
of years, while in California pur-
sued the same line of endeavor and
assisted in the organization OF the
California Peach Growers. state
wide association OF producers pro-
ducing peaches. He saw that indus
try. when the producers. for term
of four consecutive years, received
less than seventy dollars per ton Tor
their dried peaches. which price was
a serious loss to the growers. Tne
r. fnd n
peach growers that they form a state
association the same as the ralsln
growers had few years previous.
This they succeeded in doing and
ever since they have obtained flve
cents per pound for standard peach.
The growers Of all products in Cal
ifornia now realize that /. requires
lust three fundamt ntal objects to be
accomplished to make the farming
organization from a selling standpoint
a success-control of their products
TO an extent equal to fifty-fifty or
greater. and the greater the better;
sufficient money in the way OF shares
or a membershl, fee to do business
in a business-like way. and ordlnar!
honesty and ability in the conduct OF
the business.
Tne DAIRY industry oooh N'NS NF
for attention. Thousands of dairy
farmers all over the state were 60
ing out OF business; the large distrlD-
utors in the city had been in the haD-
il of going out into the country work
ing one farmer against another ana
procuring a contract from them for
six months or a year at ridiculousiy
low figure. There was not one farm-
cor in a hundred at that time VINO
knew what it was costing him to pro-
duce a gallon of milk or a pound OF
hutterfat. The but:erfat man was
nm against 1t jLst as bad as the Whoie
milk man, the various creamerles oiu
all the testing and weighing ana III
a great many instances 10 the uetil-
ment of the farmer. and paid MN
what they pleased, the price oelhs
taken daily as I..Med by the frouuoe
Exchange in San Francisco ana Los
Angeles. This exchange was maze
IN of a few of the largest and most
nowerful corporations in the buying
and selling end of the business. Inc
dairymen got busy and with the eH-
annie set by other producers OF 'he
state they reversed conditions anu
TODAY the dairymen of California are
receiving at least seventy Genus per
hundred more han the dalrymeH VI
Washington
What other men have done can De
done here. 1t would be folly 10 say
otherwise. but it is up 10 the oairs
men of this state. The dairymeh mus.
raaIi1e that in unity is strength I;
tsey [ee,'An must realize that their fellow To- y
dairyman is their best friend: the ;e
Whatcom Dairymcn's Association Is y
ono unit of the United Dairymeh
association of producers and produe-
ers only.
Every county in this state is dong 9
tho same werk as far as orgahi1a.Io!,m,
is concerned. This assoeiatiSn , %nrSax S,,,
Commence organization WORK mo Menuus uIt.
so.a anu outcome. Remember, MT.
mirs pairsman that this is your business; =, sSs.
You YOU and you only can make it S.sur- . sur-
!, 50 g come a as .se aa Lssr'S 8ss''sS Hall
9paayy,;neham-you 9ay will be home IN m
beil, ,a of time to do your evening