Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-11
PLAN Agency HERE
/ To SELL ALL milk
Maryland and Virginia Pro.
ducers' Association Offers
Dairymen Contract.

a contract under which the Mary
land and Virginia Milk Producers As
ISOLATION would act as agent for the
producers In selling all their milk to
tho local distributors was presented
to several hundred dairyrnen from the
surrounding country at q meeting of
the association in the District building
yesterday afternoon.
The printed contract sets forth that
the producer agrees to consign to the
association as agent all milk pro-
duced on his dairy except that re-
Quired for home, farm or local con-
sumption
The second clause of the contract
provides that ''The association agrees,
as such agent of the producer, to sell
and dispose of the said milk consigned
to 1t by the producer to. the best adj
vantage possible. and to remit the
proceeds thereof to the producer, less
the commission hereinafter mentioned.
and at It's option may authorize the
purchasers of milk from 1t to pay d.
rect to the producer all of the pur-
chase money except the amount due 1t
as the commission hereinafter mem
toned"
one-hfth of q cent per gallon Is to
be the associations commission under
the contract plan.
Would Turn over Bids.
Another clause provides THAT the
producer agrees that in case he is Of
1ered a price for his dairy products
in excess of the price then obtainable
by the association. he will turn over
said bid to the association to be
filled from products promised to the
association"
tracts are not to become effective un-
Jess at least 90 per cent Of the total
estimated production OF milk in the
territory represented by the associa-
tion has been pledged to the associa-
rion under like agreement. Printed
copies OF the contract were presented
to the dairymen present.
Resolutions indorsing the bill OF
Representative Moore Of Virginia to
regulate the shipment Of milk Into the
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, who helped
prepare the Moore bill, delivered an
address. in which he declared this bill
would close the doors to the sale of
would eliminate the unfair competi-
ton which licensed producers have
suffered from this source.
Object to Unfair Competition.
I'VE as farmers do not complain Of
the tuberculin test" said DR.. Wiley.
I'VE do not object to spending money
to build sanitary barns and take
duce a pure milk supply for WASH
angton. We do object to the unfair
competition to which we have been
subjected from unlicensed milk. ALI
we ask is that all milk which is sold
in this market be placed on the same
sanitary basis as our milk"
j. A Gamble. professor of dairy
husbandry at the Maryland State Col
, 1ege of Agriculture, emphasized the
Importance of dairy farmers organ
tzing to bring about better conditions
In the industry and to dissuade young
men from leaving the farms.
7. e. Mclaughlin, also of the Mary
land State College, told in detail of
form of contract which the Maryland
State Dairymen's Association uses in |
disposing of milk in Baltimore. Il
The executive committee was au-
thorized to reorganiZe the association !
along the lines of the Maryland State !
Dairymen's Association. 1t is hoped |
to complete the reorganization by |
October 1.