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FENDER FIGHT ON BEFORE COUNCIL THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOU 5, NO. 195 Chicago, Monday, May 15, 1916 3 CO-OPERATIVE DAIRY PLAN ISJUCCESS iTexas Farmer Reduce Price of Milk to Consumers Government Believes' System Could Be Adopted Throughout the Nation. . BY FREDERICK M. KERBY . Washington, May 15. Cows, co operation and community spirit re sult increased happiness and general welfare! That is the story that comes to Uncle Sam's reclamation service from the Rio Grande recla mation project H. B. Link, secretary of immigra tion of the Elephant 'Butte Water Users' ass'n, report to the reclama tion service that the people of his community started a co-operative dairying experiment with the result that at the present time members of the association are- shipping about 1,000 gallons of whole milk daily into El Paso at 20 cents a gallon; are finding a market for sweet cream at L26. to .$1.50. a, 5jtJob JBth.Jhe promise of a big increase with warm er weather. A thousand gallons of milk at 20 cents a gallon means $200 in cash every, day, $6,000 every month, and $73,000 a year. This production will probably be doubled next falL Something like 50 farmers have gone into the dairy business and have joined the association. "Inevitably," says Link in his re port, "they are becoming better farmers, for they are compelled to plan the proper rotation of crops in the growing their own feed. They are getting to be better cit izens, too. It has been the writer's privilege to attend a number of meet ing, first and last, and he has watched yqth pleasure the develop