Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-10-07

of stock outstanding will be returned
each year and new stock issued to the
Iproducers who furnish the money to
retire the old.
This is the United States department
of agriculture ROTATING" plan, which
always keeps the ownership In the
!. hands of producers exactly as they have
!. patronized the concern for the past hve-
year period. 1t prevents outside inter-
ests acquiring the stock permanently,
and II any number of shares did come
into the hands of outside parties they
would have but one vote, no matter how
many shares they owned.
PLAN UNANIMOUSLY INDoRsED.
1t is plain that q marketing corpora
tion in the hands of the producers,
while 1t does not dispense with the
: necessary services OF a middleman, does
pass back to the producer any profits
. that middleman may make and will en-
able producers to get that much more
for their products without raising the
price to the consumer.
The producers have in this plan q
chance to take over the business of hand
ling their goods. Their response will
determine how badly they see the need.
For the purpose of getting the matter
before them, conference was called at
Augusta, Me-, on September 10, at which
the department of agriculture, State
Grange, University of Maine and county
farm bureaus were represented. This
conference unanimously favored the fore
/ int n
to the statement of Dean Merrill of the
dorsed the plan, but was ready to invest
money in 1t.
Following this conference similar
meetings were held in IA counties, at all
of which keen interest and appreciation
we're shown. This week the final de.
} tails are being put on paper, literature
and charts are being prepared and q
'eam of organizers trained. As soon as
possible, these men will make COM
plete canvass of Turner Center territory
20 receive subscriptions to the trust fund
for investment In Turner Center stock.
Meanwhile arrangements are being made
for an extension of the option upon the
plan outlined above.
i RETAIN PRESENT MANAGEMENT
10 this field work, the cooperation
of farm bureaus, oranges and other
agencies is being arranged. The pres
ent Turner Center facilities will be fully
utilized and every producer will be
reached. Before another spring "fresh-
ct" of milk group Of farmers will be
long way toward owning the facilities
for handling their milk. The option on
the Turner Center stock carries with It
the services of Mr.. Bradford as manager
for five years, II desired, at bis present
salary.
The plan proposed meets the needs of
other than Turner Center territory by
enabling the trustees to acquire other
plants, either by purchase or contraction
and to reorganize them upon the patron
age basis of easy payments. 1t Is ex.
pected that other concerns may be
acquired In the near future, other mar
keta developed and New England wide
system be In operation within the five
years provided in this plan. At the end
of that time the reorganized business
will revert to the producers as stock
holders, and they will run their own
corporation as they please. But pro-
sooner discharged or may be further con.
tinued, as the shareholders desire. Their
service for five years is simply to com.
plete the purchase or erection OF facili-
ties for marketing their output upon
co. operative basis and the distribution
of ownership on the basis of patronage.
Milk Contains Vitamines.
Too often we are inclined to think
that all the great discoveries were made
long ago before the histories and physi-
ologies we studied in school we're print
ed. Yet no greater discovery in food
lines has ever been made this century
than that of the vitamines These vita
mines or growth substances are essential
to life. Naturally the question arises:
Do our children get the vitamines In the
food they eat In large quantities? 1t
not, this explains great deal.
One of the vitamines Is found In some
fats and in the leafy parts OF plants. II
our children are to have the best oppor-
tunity to develop normally, they must
have sufficient amounts of the vitamfnes
which dissolve in fat. AS to whether
any person can eat enough of the leafy
food such as cabbage and lettuce to get
this vitamine in large enough quantities
is doubted by DR.. e. V. McCollum now
Of John Hopkins University. There Is
McCollum's mind. The child cannot.
Therefore he turns to milk. And how
about milk?
Whole milk responds to the call and
comes to the front again. 1t Is one of
the best known sources of this vitamine
which dissolves In fat. This is one rea-
son why children should have milk in
heir meals.
Another of the vitamipes dissolves in
water and it also Is necessary to the
maintenance of good heelth. Milk con-
tains this vitsmine.
There is still another vitamine known.
1t prevents the dreaded disease, scurvy,
Raw milk contains this vitamine as do
the fruits and vegetables. As far as the
vitamines are concerned, milk is deserv-
ing of place In the diet.
In fact, milk, in practically all investi-
cations, has been shown to be the most
nearly perfect of all foods. It is the
only substance that Nature made for a
food only and when the leading scientists
of the world have shown that 1t is the
best food, one must conclude that Nature
did her work we'll.
That milk should have place in the
.neals of children and of grown.ups be-
cause 1t leaves an alkaline residue In the
body when digested Is the belief, of DR..
Percy Stiles of Harvard University. 1t
has been known for long time that
when persons are we'll, their blood is
alkaline. There Is greater resistance to
disease when the alkalinity Of the blood
10 preserved.
Most of the fruits which we think of
as acid leave An alkaline residue In the
body but meats and protein foods leave
au acid when digested. This places
great burden upon the lungs and kidneys
which must maintain the alkalinity OF
the blood.
One OF the best things about milk,
according to DR.. Stiles, is that while 1t
has large amounts OF the necessary pro.
tein, It leaves an alkaline residue In the
body. The value Of milk on this account
has not been fully appreciated.
4 When science has shown that milk
meets the needs of the body 80 we'll, 1t
is not strange that 10 Iowa, the state that
Ia making an admirable effort to give Its
children chance, milk should be used
In the diets of the children in the chill.
dren's hospital.
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