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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1920)
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, THE While Visiting the Dairy and.Hog Show You are invited to make this store, a resting place, and we assure you La welcome regardless of whether you want to buy goods or not, our services are at your disposal. We desire that you have a good time and are favorably impressed with this show which has now be come an event for all western Umatilla and northern Morrow County The Best of Good Service Hermiston Produce & Supply Co. Working Capital Your BEST working capital is your health. Health is often lost through insufficient nour ishment. You will always be well nourished if you eat our They are rich, wholesome, pure and nourish ing. City Meat Market MOONEY & SIKEY, Props. The Catholic Ladies WILL SERVE Sandwiches and Coffee and Home made Doughnuts in McDermed’s Carpenter Shop next door to the Oregon Hardware Store FRIDAY and SATURDAY during the Dairy and Hog Show LIBERTY BAKERY W. O. Sutherland, Prop. . YOUR HOME INSTITUTION Hermiston, Oregon - Eat More "Home-Made” Bread LIFE INSURANCE AETNA LIFE INSURANCE CO. E. D. DUNGAN, Agent I pubiished Friday HERMISTON OREGON H E R A L D Hermiston, Umatila County, Oregon, in the heart ot Eastern every at Oregon’s great irrigated aitalla fields, by the Herald Publishing Company. M. C. Athey, Editor Eaterea as second-class, matter, December .10, at the postomee a Hermiston, oreon Subscription Rates: One Year, $2.00; Six Months, 81.00 up the product or the farmer ships i it from the nearest station. The pro | ducer sets it over the fence or upon the depot platform and trusts all to the buyer. Suspicion arises. | Whether well-founded or not. Sus- (Continued from page one) picion is bad In any business. League and the combined products Never in the history of the dairy will henceforth be manufactred and | industry in Oregon, until the League sold through one central head with was organized did the producer have out the aid of numerous middlemen. a word to say about the price he re- The Oregon Dairymen's Coopera ceived for his product. No other tive League is a non-profit coopera industry could survive such a handi tive association. It now has over cap. Butter prices are dictated, not by 2000 members. All the milk is pooled by months. Part is sold at producers, nor by supply and demand, 11 cents a quart, part at $3.55 a hun but by speculators and manipulators. To become a member each dairy- dred pounds and part at $2.90 a hun dred pounds, the sales manager using man signs a five-year contract by his best judgment in disposing of the | which he pledges all his milk or product. All the proceeds are put cream to the association. He does in one pool, cost of operating de- not pledge himself to produce any ducted and the balance pro-rated given amount or to produce any at among all the members according to Î all. But what he does produce must the amount each contributed. Each i be sold only to the League. He pays member gets the same price after al a $10 membership fee regardless of lowing for difference if any in grade the size of his herd. Each member or quality and transportation charges has one vote equal to every other The cream is made into butter member. and the finished product sold by the The business of the organization sales manager. Gradually the fac is managed by a board of 25 direct tories will be standardized and a un ors who are chosen at a primary iform product produced. nominating election by sealed bal Heretofore the sour cream dairy- lots. Each director must be a mem man got the price offered by the ber and a producer and his product creameryman, who in turn sold the goes in the same' pool with all the butter at a profit to the butter job other members. ber or speculator, who in turn sold The board of directors elect the it to the trade at a profit. Under officers and hire the manager to look the League plan the creamery is op after the details of the organization. erated at cost and the butter sold to The League is a true cooperative the trade by the dairymen’s sales organization of producers, operated manager and all the profit from the for producers by producers. Mem- finished article returned to the far bership is not solicited in any com- mer. All the returns from butter munlty unless there is prospect of are put In one pool and each member getting practically all the dairymen gets the same per pound of butter in that community to become mem- fat after making allowances for dif bers so as to make the operation ference in quality and transportation. economical and profitable. Milk or cream sold to plants not The Farm Bureaus of the various owned by the League is checked up counties have given the League ac for tests and weights by men employ tive support and have done much to ed by the League, thus eliminating aid organization. If interested com- the suspicion that has been a big nunicate with your county agent or bug-a-boo in the dairy business. your dairy project leader or your Every dairyman in Oregon is Farm Bureau. deeply interested in the Oregon Dairymen’s Cooperative League. Many are asking for information re garding it. Following is a brief out- bey line of its aims and purposes: 1—To stabilize prices and do away with speculation in the farmers’ ef- fort. 2—To shorten the road from pro ducer to consumer. 3—To do away with the suspicion that has always existed over tests and weights. 9 • 4—To give the producer a voice in the fixing of prices. 5—To give the producer more nearly the cost of production. Dairy products have never been marketed as have other commodities. If the farmer sells a load of hay, a load of wheat, a cow or a horse, he and the buyer dicker on the price, quality, time of delivery, etc. It they can agree, the deal is made; if For not the article is held at the owner's isk until the same buyer or someone SHERIFF else gives him what he asks. With Regular Democratic milk or cream it is different. Being Nominee perishable, it must seek its market daily. The farmer cannot follow W. R. TAYLOR each can of milk or cream to town and make a separate deal with the If elected will strive to buyer. give the people an economi Accordingly a system has grown cal and efficient administra- upon us by which the buyer sends a i tion. wagon down the road and gathers Paid Adv. OREGON DAIRYMEN’S COOPERATIVE LEAGUE Save Money Read This The Daily Oregonian Costs $8.00 per year The Hermiston Herald Costs $2.00 per year Total $10.00 Special for Saturday, October 9th The Daily and Sunday Oregonian and the Hermiston Herald both for one year for $7.50 For Leather Goods: Choose a Leather Store Leather Coats are now in season \ Send for Illustrated Price List Hamley & Co. 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