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Bell, Florence C. (Florence Colfax), 1899- / Farmer co-ops in Wisconsin
([1941])
Dairy distributers cooperative retails in Milwaukee, pp. 22-23
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Byproducts and specialties add to dairy income, pp. 23-24
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a total value of about $600,000. One manager serves both plants. Orange- ade and tomato juice, as well as dairy products, are sold on approximately 72 wholesale and retail routes. Three of the retail trucks are used to make sales to factory employees during the lunch hour. The employees' pay roll amounts to more than $5,000 a week. The business of Dairy Distributers, Inc., Cooperative in the fiscal year ended April 30, 1940, amounted to $1,138,000. Other distributing associations.- Other milk distributing associations in Wisconsin include the Twin Ports Co- operative Dairy Association at Superior and the Kenosha Milk Producers Association. The Twin Ports Cooperative receives milk from both Wisconsin and Minne- sota farmers, and markets it in Supe- rior and Duluth, distributing to retail stores and not directly to consumers. It has pioneered in bottling milk in paper containers. Substantial quan- tites of butter and milk powder are produced and marketed. Butter not sold locally is marketed through Land O'Lakes Creameries. Business activi- ties for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1940, aggregated $750,000. The Kenosha Milk Producers Asso- ciation carries on a variety of business activities for approximately 185 pa- trons. It bargains for the price to be paid the producers who deliver milk to private dealers in the Kenosha market, and also owns and operates two plants. The co-op not only makes more than 50 percent of the retail sales in Kenosha, but also sells at wholesale to other dis- tributors in this market. About 60 of the patrons are "Chicago Grade A men," whose milk the association ships to the Chicago market. The coopera- tive sold fluid milk in 1939 aggregating over $375,000; butter, $50,000; and cream for manufacturing $2,000. It was organized in 1921. There are several other types of dairy cooperatives in the State, in- cluding milk marketing associations, wholesale milk receiving stations, cream stations, and associations that special- ize in the manufacture of a variety of dairy products. Byproducts and Specialties Add to Dairy Income In addition to cooperative sales of fluid milk and cream, butter, and cheese, many other dairy products are handled cooperatively as byproducts, side lines, or specialties. Findings of the national survey of farmer coopera- tives show that associations in Wis- consin or neighboring States in 1936 made sales of dried milk for Wisconsin co-op patrons aggregating $4,825,000. There were also cooperative sales of casein amounting to $802,000; fluid skim milk to $157,000; buttermilk $124,000; and whey $8,000. In addi- tion to these products, cream for manu- facturing was sold in the amount of $2,872,000, ice cream $31,000, and other dairy products $654,000. It is probable that a large portion of the manufactur- ing cream was whey cream from cheese making and that a large portion of the sales of other dairy products was ac- counted for by sales of evaporated milk. Throughout the State many dairy cooperatives of various types manu- facture a number of these products as a side line. Several co-ops also manu- facture large volumes of some of these products as their major activity. -23 - 27839f41
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