The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-03-06
Voice of the People

The annual meeting of the Keno
sha Milk Producers association was
held at the Pleasant Prairie town
hall on Thursday.
One hundred and fifty men coming
from five townships to cast their votes
for seven directors to handle the af-
fairs of the association for the COM
ing year, expressed their confidence
in the fairness of the old directors
by putting the same men back with
out a dissenting voice. The officers
elected as follows: President, L.
Robinson, South Kenosha; vice presi-
dent, Jacob Edwards, Woodwork;
secretary T. w. Powell,
Pleasant Prairie; directors, VIM. Bar
ter, John LIGHTER, John Federmeyer,
and Hans Hansen.
The Kenosha Milk Producers assoc
citation controlling practically all of
the milk sold in the city of Kenosha,
is generally speaking, young or
ganization, nearly all of its members
at one time or another belonged to
the Milk Producers Cooperative Mar
keting company and the old Milk Pro-
ducers association of the Chicago
dairy district.
Back in the fall of '21 when the
warning factions of the two old COM
panies began to cross, swords, the Ke-
nosha association began to sprout.
The present secretary of the asso-
citation having keen sense of smell,
scented some of the difficulties ahead
for the producers around Kenosha, so
in company with John Federmeyer,
(better known. to the farmers in the
county as honest john, set out on
foot to form new organization, walk
ing as far as fifteen miles day over
slippery roads and beet fields to get
the farmers signed up.
After holding many meetings in and
around Kenosha it was decided but
little could be accomplished without
funds, and marketing machinery.
At the time prices on farm products
were low, rents and cost values high,
SC the question naturally arose how
to get funds to start
It was finally decided to ask each
producer delivering milk at Kenosha
to subscribe one dollar per COW for
each COW he owned and in few
weeks time $2,59100 were collected,
representing as many cows. This
amount added to per cent deduc-
ton from each farmers milk for a
period of six months, gave the present
association it's start. In the spring
of '22 the association incorporated
with capital stock now at 100000.
The association confines itself ex-
clusively to the wholesaleing of milk,
cream, skim milk and butter and with
the splendid cooperation given by the
dealers in the city the association
now owns one of the best equipped
plants of its size in southern Wisconsin.
There are 152 stockholders in the
association who received an average
price of SCOOPS per cwt. for all of
their base milk and $2.422 per cwt.
for all of their surplus for milk test
ing $3.50 B. F. in the year 1928.
The volume of milk handled through
the association during the year 1928
was 14,428,O lbs. The total receipts
from milk and butter sales for the
year 1923 amounted to $413,868.29.
It's doubtful if a more united band
of milk producers are to be found
anywhere in Wisconsin.
A short and suggestive expression
of the guiding principles of the asso-
citation was made by one of the mem
bers at the meeting during an argu-
ment over prices paid to nom
stockholders when he said live and
let hive.
just word to the milk producers
in the great Chicago dairy district,
VINO are yet unorganized; get together,
reason together, pick out leaders with
foresight, Judgment and little faith,
even though it be as small as a grain
OF mustard seed, and organize your
selves into an association that will
put the milk business on a paying
basis. Kenosha Milk Producers as
ISOLATION, by Talford w. Powell, Secy.