Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-09-02
Cheese Producers Federation
Offers the Chance to Rusk
County Cheese Factories to
Get the Advantage of Organ
lied Marketing. - Necessity
For Concerted Action Seen

In his Rhinelander address on
August 10, Prof. K. L. Hatch stated
that during the coming decade the
problems of marketing farm products
would be the primary issue. The fact
that right now prices of farm prod
ucts are only Ii per cent above the
1913 level, whereas, other commodi-
ties run as high as $50 per cent above,
emphasizes the necessity of concerted
action by farmers in the marketing
of their products.
The Wisconsin Cheese Producers
Federation offers an opportunity 10
the cheese factories of our county to
federate and get the advantage of or
ganiZatiOn marketing. The Fedora
TONS expense for 1914 to 1919 varied
from IL cents to 1.6 cents on every
dollars worth of cheese, compared
with expense by private dealers OF
Al to 9.3 cents as shown by College
of Agriculture Investigations in 1913.
Further it has tended to check unwa"-
ranted price manipulation.
On July 1. 1921, 120 factories were
members of the Federation. The
growth in the amount of cheese ham
died is shown by the growth from
6, 125, 4SO pounds valued at 1887 $4,000
in 1914 to 13,9S2,S17 pounds valued at
$3,91S.721.56 in 1920.
Know How To Sell Cheese
The experience of the Federation
indicates that Wisconsin farmers
have a great opportunity before them
in the building up of a strong, unified
cooperative cheese producers selling
organization. Tn federation has
shown that it knows how 70 sell cheese
and to keep down costs. 1T is, there
fore, not only the logical nucleus for
a statewide farmers movement for
the cooperative sale of cheese, but be-
ing already i'll the field it can if sup
ported by increasing numbers of Wis
cOnSin farmers do even better FOR
them. Certainly it can be depended
upon to market cheese more efficiently
and rapidly through further enlarge
ment than could be done by the start
ing of similar smaller and competing
declarations in different parts of the
state.
Any individual or concern, whether
privately owned or cooperative, man
ufacturing any of the several types OF
American cheese, may become men,
Der of the federation. The WiscOn-
sin Cheese Producers Federation and
its plans are endorsed by the State
Division of Markets, College OF Agri-
culture, University of Wisconsin, Wis
consin Farm Bureau, and the Amer
lean Society of Equity.
At a meeting III the office OF the
Department of Markets at the state
capitol, Madison. Wisconsin, Aug. 20,
1921, at which the representatives OF
the Wisconsin Cheese Producers Fed
GRAFTON, the Wisconsin State Union
American Society of Equity, the Agri-
cultural College and the Wisconsin
Department of Markets took part, the
following propositions were drawn
up. 1t is most fortunate that after
the general protest against the Equity
Dairymens League Plan, the Equity
Society should agree to endorse COM
modify organization on the Federation
plan and to market each specific lin
ished product. as cheese, butter. etc, in
separate declarations. This the Equity
society agrees to do in accordance
with the following resolutions. The
sentiment of the meeting and the