History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present . the state and has been an ardent workerin the organizations that have led up to the present San Joaquin ValleyMilk Producers Association. He and his father worked under trying condi-tions in the fruit industry, when with the advent of irrigation the water-table rose and the alkali from the hard-pan beneath killed their trees andvines ; and they met all kinds of competition in dairying. These sev
History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present . the state and has been an ardent workerin the organizations that have led up to the present San Joaquin ValleyMilk Producers Association. He and his father worked under trying condi-tions in the fruit industry, when with the advent of irrigation the water-table rose and the alkali from the hard-pan beneath killed their trees andvines ; and they met all kinds of competition in dairying. These severe lessonsin the hard school of experience only strengthened his claims that co-opera-tion and organization were the only successful means by Avhich to handlelocal conditions and bring order and prosperity out of chaos and low made his first venture in the Danish Creamery, which was the first co-operative creamery association to successfully operate in the county. Today(1919) the dairy interests are pretty generally organized throughout thestate, as is shown by the existence of dairymens associations in San Fran-cisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Sacramento Valley, Northern California and. ^^7t?^^^c-^^<^^^ HISTORY OF FRESNO COUNTY 1231 the San Joaquin Valley. Mr. Hansen has been a diligent worker to bringabout these organizations bv heartily cooperating with all movements tothat end. The San Joaquin Valley Milk Producers Association is one of nineunits in the state at the present time. It was instituted in August, is meeting with well-merited success. A corps of solicitors are employedand about forty percent, of the milk producers of the valley have signed up,and its influence is rapidly spreading. This concern takes in every industryin which cows milk is the basic element. The marketing association for thewhole state is known as the Associated Dairymen of California, its directoratebeing made up of two directors from each unit who meet in San Franciscoonce a m
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