The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-01-01
DAIRY FARMERS
HOLD MEETING
Need of Cooperation is
Shown at Meeting of
Dairy Farmers.
CHICAGO MAN SPEAKS

Marketing of dairy products, an all
important subject to many farmers of
Kenosha county, was the subject dis
cussed Monday evening at meeting
held at the Opera House in Salem un-
der the auspices of the board of di-
rectors of the Salem COOPERATIVE
Dairy Products company. A. ID. Lynch,
head of the Department of Dairy Mar
keting of the Agricultural Association
of Illinois, was the chief speaker at
| the meeting.
He explained briefly the co-opera-
ton of the Farm Bureau and the Ag-
ricultural association and also the
various interests covered by the latter.
Chief among it's departments are those
of transportation, livestock, legal, tax
alton, finance, organization, publicity
and dairying. He stated, as our dairy
men well know, that the milk market
in Chicago at the present time Is a
complex situation.
The only effectual remedy he fore
sees is an adamant organization of
dairymen, one that reaches from coast
to coast, with leader at the head of
it who is big enough to lead, and dali
rymen with brains enough to follow.
Metropolitan wholesalers and retail
ers are trying to buy where there is
the least competition, and the market
is bound to be uncertain during this
exploitation. The fluid milk market
never has been and never will be sta
BILE, while if the price of butterfat
varies one half cent in New York, it is
| felt in Chicago, and in every other
market in the world. His first advice
is to stabilize milk on butterfat bas-
is. A number of years ago Boston
was surrounded by dairy farms; today
it is surrounded by truck farms and
it's milk supply is drawn from the
northern New England states. What
happened at Boston may happen to
Chicago.
While the tank car is formidable
district, it's scope at present is over
estimated. There are but 33 tank cars
in use and the longest trip one has
ever made is lao miles. The first OBJ
lection to the tank car is it's enorm-
Gus cost; second, to be profitable it
must have as a minimum, 10000 to
$4,000 pounds of milk per day. Mr.,
Lynch's advice to the local dairymen
! is to separate, sell butterfat, either as
commercial sweet cream or high grade
butter, keep the milk for raising heif-
er calves, thus building up the herd
and adding fertility to the farm. Chi
cago is swimming in milk; in August
there was 80 to 40 per cent surplus.
There is one ray Of hope for the local
dairymen-cows must be tested. Sur
veys are now being made of tubercu-
lin tested milk near Chicago. 1t is
probable at an early date milk produc-
tion not so tested will not be allowed
t ODE marketed. Stop buying your
herd; when you trade, trade horses
not cows. Instead of keeping your
cows, have them keep you.
Lower Cost of Production.
To influence the selling price of
milk is impossible--the supply and de-
mand controls that, but the farmer
can lower the cost of production
Weigh the feed, test the milk, and do
some figuring. A COW is machine
the farmer manufacturer, and the
barn a factory. In summing up, pro-
duce cheaper milk, better milk, and
economic.
Charles Sihley of Antioch, who for
several years has been interested in
the Milk Producers association, was
present and spoke briefly on their
problems and plans.
| p. j. Stockwell gave resume of
what had been accomplished since the
! organization of the Salem Cooper
alive Dairy Products company during
October Mr.. McKerlie of Lyons is
now in charge of the local plant.