News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-11-22
Dairymen's Meeting
BIG MEETING AT MORRIsvILLE
Friday, Nov. "a, at 100 p. NJ, N. e.
| M. p. A. District

Every dairy farmer in this section
is invited to attend the Lamoille dis
trict meeting of the New England
Milk Producers Association, to be.
held Friday, November "a, at 100
p. M, in Morrisville at the town hall.
The district president, J. B. McKin-
| ley of Stowe, was present at the
special meeting of the New England
Milk Producers Association Novem-
Der 8 andtwill report at the district
meeting on the New England wide
marketing plan, which is now about
to take the next step.
Fred c. Warner, district manager,
will also be present to explain the
workings of the new plan and its
relation to the New England Milk
Producers Association.
This is highly important meet
ing and it is the business of every
dairy farmer to be present and get
the first hand information about the
plan, which, it is expected, will in a
few years give the dairy farmers of
New England complete control of
their business.
The report of the special committee
on the marketing plan differed ma
terially from what was generally ex-
pected, but met with complete salts
faction on the part of the district
presidents. The plan which was rec
commended was the bringing together
Of the existing cooperative agencies
for handling milk as the first step in
the consolidation of the producers
interests throughout New England.
Farmers who now sell through coop
erative organizations are competing
with one another in the market. If
they can be brought together they
will form the largest Single dealer
in milk in New England and the dis
astrous effects of competition among
themselves will be eliminated. The
committee recommends this simply
as first step and it is the general
expectation that this combined COOP
Grafton will be so successful and will
return to the farmers enough more
than they are now getting for milk
so that the other farmers will desire
to come in. 1t is prophesized by men
who are familiar with the situation
that in the course of a very few
years the great majority of the milk
producers of New England will be
drawn into this great cooperative
enterprise.
The New England Milk Producers
Association will not have any direct
connection with this amalgamation of
the cooperative organizations, but
will lend all its resources to bring
about the desired end. 1t is expected
that for a number of years at least
there will still be need of the New
England Milk Producers Association
to serve as a stabilizer in the market
and ensure a square deal for both
producers and dealers. 1t is the inten-
ton of the N. E. NJ P. A. to get the
fundamental principle of the new
marketing plan before its members
at the earliest possible moment, this |
is in the district meeting with two
speakers at least who are thoroughly |
familiar with the subject. It will be
presented in a way which, give !
the farmers the fullest possible |
chance to understand it.
All farmers are invited to this |
meeting, although the voting power
will be confined to delegates from the
locals in the towns which are included
in this district. The locals in the
district are as follows: Elmore,
Greensboro, Hardwiel,, Hyde Park,
Jeffersonville, Johnson, Morrisville,
North Craftsbury, North Hyde Park,
Stowe, Waterville and Wolcott