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
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.
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HERMISTON
OREGON
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Hermiston, Umatila County, Oregon, in the heart ot Eastern
every
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Oregon’s great irrigated aitalla fields, by the Herald Publishing Company.
M. C. Athey, Editor
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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-
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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.
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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
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