St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-21
A Good Story in Connection
With the Creamery
Business.
Dakota Farmers Made Feeble
Cows Net Them a Dollar
a Day.
A Farmers Wife Makes Some
Excellent Suggestions to
Her Sisters.
The Wadena Question, How
to Improve the Condition
of the Farmer?
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
Did l ever tell you how we got
ahead of the creamery fellers down in
our county?" inquired South Dakota
agriculturist of the writer few days
ago. Being personally interested in a
creamery enterprise just being started
in our town, and which nearly all the
business men had invested IN to the eX-
tent of three or four shares
at $50 each, for the purpose of
booming new industry and build
ing up the country, l listened
with great interest to the remarks of the
shrewd old Union county granger, who
proceeded to tell how he and his neigh
bors had come it over some "bloody
Englishmen" who started a creamery
on the Iowa side of the Big Sioux.
sit was seven years ago this spring,
Just after the hard winter of 80 and 81,
that two young EngliShmen, sons of
lords, l low, started a creamery at Cal
Hope, on the Iowa side of the river.
They sent boy over into our neighbor-
hood to gather cream. At first we set
tiers didn't take much stock in the
blamed ew-fangled way of doing bust
ness. They sent out long tin cans
about a foot across and two foot
deep, and these we had to put the milk
into and then chuck the cans into the
water. The cream we had to skim off
and put into another can with glass
winder runnin' the hull length Ont and
marked off with inches like a carpen-
ter's rule. The cream-gatherer was to
take this cream and allow US cents an
inch for it, and he lowed that if milk
got in long with the cream it would
settle to the bottom, and he would
knock off that much. Well, sir, 1 and
the rest of the neighbors was slow to go
into this blamed
NEWFANGLED SCHEME.
was kind o. skeery of it for time. but
at last j sailed in an the rest fol1ered.
The cream and what milk would get
into the cream can didn't separate, but
all mixed together, as we was generally
on hand before the creamery wagon
drove up. Well, sir, you never seen
how we Dakota homesteaders made
that English creamery company runnin'
OH the Iowa side of the river
pay US. The way our cows begin
to pour out the cream was just
wonderful. and showed what Dakota
grass will do. As [ said, it was the
spring after the hard winter, and some
Of my cattle mad died. only had three
COWS left and only two of them were
giv!n' milk: but, sir, they give over two
pals of pure cream every day! Yes,
sir. it's fact, and them two COWS just
made dollar day apiece for me for
over TWO months, besides furnishin' the
family with fair amount of skim
milk" -'--.
Did the creamery prosper?' l in
uuired, thinking of my 800 invested in
the Joint stock concern at home.
"Well, no; KANT say that it did, but
the young sons of lords had slathers of
money, and they made some butter, and
though it didn't seem to hold out very
well, they laid it to new-fangled
patent churn they was tryin', and we
raked in the money for two months at a
lively rate. Why, that blamed creamery
would have made us
HONEST DAKOTA FARMERS
all we'll off in few years, but you see
some folks don't know when they've got
q good thing and grow reckless like.
You remember the Smiths? Well. the
ole man Smith wasn't satisfied with
Sellin' the Englishmen skim milk for
cream at cents an inch and maxim 81
day for each COW and calf he had on
the place, and he began to fill his cream
cans with water and feed the skim
milk to his pigs. You know
the ole man Smith aIlus kept
roun' him.. Me an some of the other
neighbors tried to reason with the ole
man and get him to act half white. but
'twant no use, an the creamery fellers
found it out at last and proposed to do
their own skimmin' arter that. OF course
we Dakota fellerS all quit 'em then.
Didn't hardly pay us to monkey with the
blamed new-fangled scheme, but if it
hadn't been for the ole man Smith we
might been all sellin' cream to them
EngliShmen on the Iowa side to this
day." FRANK FARRAL.