The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-18
MILK PRODUCERS
EXPLAIN PLANS
Organization Adopted Re-
Gently Explained in De-
tail by Chairman.
SECURE AN EXPERT
Aaron Sapiro Is to Aid in Re-
constructing the Milk Pro
ducers Organization.


Kenosha county as one of the CEN
tiers of the controversy which has been
raging in the ranks of the milk pro-
ducers of the Chicago district will be
very much interested in the plans
adopted at a recent meeting at the
Sherman hotel in Chicago for the re-
organization of the milk producers of
the district. The members of the
Milk Producers COOPERATIVE Market
ing company adopted the recommended
tion of the committee of nine and en-
dorsed and signed the new contract
presented by that committee.
One of the important provisions of
this report was that Aaron Saprio,
known as Americas greatest farm or
ganizer, should be secured to take hold,
of the affairs of the organization and
direct it through this crisis.
Reviews Recommendation.
A communication sent out by J. T.
Williams, president of the company,
was received in Kenosha today. 1t
contains the review of the plan recon-
mended by the committee, through its
chairman, c. v. Gregory, which was
adopted in its entirety by the organ
ization.
This review is in part as follows:
Fifty per cent of the price the con-
sumner pays for milk should go to the
man who milks the cows, and produc-
ers should market their milk cooper
atively in order to secure this share
of the consumers dollars, according to
the report of the committee of nine,
recently appointed by the American
Farm Bureau Federation to study the
milk marketing situation in the Chi
cago district. This $3.50 division of
the price the consumer pays will. the
committee believes, appeal to every
one as fair and reasonable. In many
other cities the producer is getting
half the price the consumer pays, as
he did in Chicago before the war. At
the present time the man who milks
cows in the Chicago district gets only
80 per cent of the retail price while
the other 70 per cent goes for dis
tribution costs and profits.
Stoxen on Committee. ::as
"The committee of nine is as fol-
lows: c. V. Gregory, editor Prairie
Farmer, chairman; C. Larsen of the
Illinois Agricultural association; H. C.
Hemingway of GAINESVILLE, Wis, rep
resenting the Wisconsin Farm Bureau
Federation; Perry Crane of Indian
apolis, Ind, representing the Indiana
Federation of Farmers associations: j.
7. Williams Of Sterling, ILL.,, A. G. Stox-
en- of Bassett, Wis, and T. R. Keene
of Wheeler, Ind, representing the
Milk Producers COOPERATIVE Market
ing company, and John Rathbun of
Lombard, ILL.,, and Dan. Gilly of Bar
rington, ILL.,, representing the produc-
ers at large.
After a thorough study of the stu
alton the committee decided that the
interests of the milk producers in the
district would be best served by work
ing with the present company, which
is now handling about 10 per cent of
the milk of the district and which
owns milk plants valued at 100000
THE committee retained Aaron
Saprio, famous cooperative attorney.
to help draft producers contract and
plan of operation. The committee of
nine will continue in effect for several
months to have general supervision OF
the campaign to secure signatures to
the new contract and to put other
features of it's plan into effect. 1t
hopes to have Mr.. Saprio address a
number of meetings in the dairy dis
trict some time in June.
Plan to Pool Prices.
"The, new contract will become eff
fective September 1 if 5000 have been
signed by that time. They may be
put into force sooner if the required
number of signatures is secured.
"The new contract, which Mr.. Saprio
says is the best milk contract in the
United States, provides for pooling re-
ceipts from milk and other dairy prod
ucts in four separate divisions, as fol-
lows: 1. Fluid milk fund. 2. Con-
densed milk fund. 8. Cheese fund
4. Butter fund.
The net average price received in
each division for any given month for
milk Cor other products reduced to a
milk basis) will constitute the basic
pooled price in that division. The
first payment in all divisions, to be
made between the 21st and the Both
of the following month, will be the
basic pooled price in the lowest priced
division.
Second Payment Later.
"A month later each producer will
receive a second payment made up as
follows:
81. Two-thirds of the amount by
which the basic pooled price in his
division exceeds the basic pooled price
IN the lowest priced division.
"2. The other one-third will go into
general fund which will be distrib-
uted pro-rata to all producers.
"Pro-rata deductions will be made
for overhead expenses, and three per
cent deduction will also be made from
each producers check for an insurance