The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-11-03
NEW ENGLAND MILK PRO-
DUCERS' ASSOCIATION.

Milk marketing for the bene-
fit of the producer and the con-
sumner will be the keynote to the
Annual Meeting of the Milk
Producers Federation to be held
in Springfield, Mass, Nov. 9th
and 10th. The various organiza-
tons of farmers who are selling
milk in most of the big cities of
the United States will be well
represented at this Federation
meeting and the trend of the
program is decidedly toward the
elimination of needless expense
between producer and consumer.
The meeting will be preceded
by a special conference of the
District Presidents of the New
England Milk Producers Associ-
alton to hear the report of the
special marketing committees on
a New England wide plan of
marketing comparatively. The
Committee will recommend some
policies materially different from
what have yet been suggested
and there is a keen interest
among dairy farmers as to the
effect the new policies will have
on their respective districts. This
report will come up for general
discussion in the National FEEDER
alton meeting.
Aside from the special interest
in the New England situation,
the biggest thing on the program
is the new fight against filled"
milk which will be staged, The
Voigt bill, prohibiting the inter
state transportation of this bogus
milk is expected to pass at the
next session of Congress. State
legislation, forbidding the use of
filled milk, is needed, especially
in New England. The program
of the Federation meeting will
give much attention to the filled
milk fight and it is expected that
out of the agitation will come a
movement for laws in New Eng
land which will protect the con-
sumers from being fooled by this
spurious product, masquerading
as real milk when it really is
nothing but skim milk and cocoa
nut oil.
The Federation meeting will
open with a business session on
the morning of November 9th at
the Municipal Auditorium. At
tention will be given to excessive
costs in transportation Of milk
and to rural credits. In the
afternoon session Henry Morgen-
THAI, former Ambassador to
Turkey, will give an address on
Farm Problems at Home and
Abroad. The remainder of the
afternoon will be given to re-
ports of what the milk. market
ing organizations are doing and
to the problems of increasing the
use of milk.
A big mass meeting will be
held in the evening with Hoa.
Houston Thompson of the Fed
eral Trade Commission as the
principal speaker. Former Gov.
Robert P Bass of New Hampshire
and Milo D Campbell, President
of the National Milk Producers
Federation will speak. The sec
cond day program will be a con-
tinuation of the reports of pro-
gress in cooperative milk mar
keting, followed by free for all
discussion of the filled milk
evil and a presentation of the
New England marketing plan by
John S Murdoch, general Counsel
for the N E M P A. The ses-
sions will close with business
meeting of the Federation in the
evening.
The invitation to attend these
is general and it is ex-
pected that large number OF
progressive dairymen will go to
Springfield for part or the whole
of the sessions. The New Eng
land Milk Producers Association
is one of the units in the FEEDER
alton and it was in response to
their invitation that the Fedora
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