Morris tribune., 1889-09-04
A COOPERATIVE CREAM
cry.
by AN EXPERIENCED pAIRYMAN.

by AN EXPERIENCED DAIRYMAN.
desire first to say to you, that Minne-
sofa stands to-day one of the foremost
agricultural states. In the fruits OF the
field you are well up; but in the dairy,
especially in the northern part OF the
state, you are far behind your sister
states. And why? Simply because you
have the wheat craze, and, shall say
it? are selfish and have no confidence in
your brother farmers.
If you see q farmer more successful
than yourself, do you try to practice
his methods, or will he lmpart them to
brother tiller of the soil?
Not by any means. The unsuccessful!
one will say that success was gained by
dishonest means, the successful one will
hug his knowledge close and glory in
his ability to outstrip his neighbor.
Not so the dairyman and stock farm
er, they mingle together and exchange
ideas and by the friction of discussion
become brighter and better fitted to con-
duct their business proiitably,
Now brother farmers l feel too deep
an interest IN the weary toilers in agri
cultural pursuits and have lost too much
money IN grain raising to sit idly by and
see others commit the same folly.
Now as to cooperative creamery.
Uou have an idle plant here, why not
utilize it? You can buy the building for
farmers of Morris and vicinity can form
a joint stock company, letting each COW
represent one share and one vote. When
the company is formed and the amount
let each member be assessed according
to the No. of shares he holds, such as
sessment to be returned from the net
profits of the business as they accumu
late, full settlement of all business be-
ing made at the end of each month.
You elect president, secretary, treas
urer and board of trustees. These
should be the best business men in the
county. Let no petty jealousies stand
in the way; but look at the thing in a
true business light and select the best.
1t is proverbial fact that exclusive
grain raising makes a man sordid, self
ish, jealous and one sided man-you
can plainly see the effects in Stevens
county. The farmers have gone into the
wheat hole and drawn the hole in after
them. They never get time to visit, in
fact they arc hermits. The summers are
spent in rush and hurry, the winter in
idleness, like the bears consuming in
winter the fat accumulated in summer.
Now the dairy business changes all this
and gives employment the year round at
good wages, as you must be winter as
we'll as a summer dairyman, in this way
you keep your creamery running when
butter brings the best price and when
you have the most time to care for COWS.
But to resume, after the company is
formed, building and apparatus secured,
comes the hiring of butter maker; get
the best, don't let S. per month stand in
IAC way VI O SoOO u1duI yOu VAIN u AAoA
who can both make and sell butter as
much depends on the selling. Don't
have any boys play in the business.
Keep good COWS, give them good care
and feed them we'll. Don't get mad if
your neighbor gets greater profit from
his ten cows than you do from your ten,
but find out how he does it and 60 and
do likewise, strive to keep ahead. Test
your COWS and weed out the poor ones
and fill their places with those that pay
a good profit. Keep barns and milk
utensils clean, brush all filth from the
udder before milking, don't for mo-
ment suppose that the strainer will re-
move the oder or flavor from filthy
milk. Let all do their best, as the man
who puts in tainted cream not only
beats himself but robs all the others by
lowering the price of the butter.
Use deep setting, the Cooley-sub-
merged-system being the best. Let the
amount of butter in each mans cream be
determined by the oil test, then all get
their just share and no more.
The cooperative creameries pay by
far the greater profit of any in Opera
ton.
A. T. FOSTER.