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Annual Milk Co-Op Meeting – Meyer Parodneck

Annual Milk Co-Op Meeting

Meyer Parodneck Quote “Our continued growth and vitality will depend on how adept we are at learning from the lessons of our past and applying that knowledge to the challenges ahead.”

Archie Wright once said, “I had been in jail many times. It is easy to get into jail when you object to the robbery of the poor.”

Consumer-Farmer Belle Mead Plant

The Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative located in Long Island City

The Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative Long Island City Milk Truck

The front of the Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative located in Long Island City

The Consumer-Framer Milk Truck

Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative plant at an unknown location

Framers loading milk to be taken to a Consumer-Farmer plant

Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative workers processing and packaging milk

Annual Milk Co-Op Meeting – Meyer Parodneck

Farmer shows love & appreciation toward a calf

Farmers and Cow

Cora the Cow

Demonstrations lead by the league of Settlement House Movements in the 1930’s

Dr. Caroline Whitney – The first president of the Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative and the head of the Consumers Committee

Farmers and Consumers celebrate the Co-Op’s success together by drinking milk. Photo taken at the Delhi Barn Dance in New York State.

Farmers Union Picnic at Eel Weir State Park. Bookends are Archie Wright and Meyer Parodneck. In the middle are Carl Peter, Senator John McEwen, and Leslie.

Harry P. Gregor conducted basic research on ion exchange resins, which he realized could be the basis for a purification technology. He developed several application for the gels, among them removing radioactive materials from water, and during the strontium scare of the 1960’s, a strontium-90 from milk.

Matthew Napear – Board Member and Secretary

Archie Wright – Leader of the Dairy Farmers Union

Meyer with Cora the Cow

Meyer Parodneck

Meyer Parodneck on board a ship off Southampton – Photo printed September 5, 1936

High milk prices fought at stormy U.S. hearing on Thursday December 9, 1948

Before making the switch over to cardboard containers, Consumer-Farmer used glass bottles. They found that the new use of cardboard containers allowed them to carry more weight in milk on their trucks, thus allowing them to deliver more milk to its consumers.

The Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative of Long Island City’s Quart & Half Pint Milk Containers

The Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative of Brooklyn’s Quart & Half Pint Milk Containers

The Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative of New York City’s Half Pint Milk Containers

Milk Purification Machine

Toad Lane – The First Co-Op