Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-07-30

IlSuI Ou0 VI Gu0 WOIbG features Oh GQ0
f7peless conditions of the
p4St few years is that the PEG.
plh in SO repeatedly losing their crops,
have lost courage, and when public
charity has stepped in, as it so nobly
has done in many cases, there is great
danger thatitpauperizes the whole com
munity and great number lose all am
bition to get along.
The business men of Oooperstown felt
that they were receiving and would re-
ceive back with interest all outlay in
keeping the creamery in operation. So,
rather than see it closed, they raised a
purse of 5000 in cash and put up all the
ice needed free, as an aid to the owners
for running it during the season of 1890.
In spite of this assistance, and though
the business had steadily decreased,
Thompson & Serumgard were short $500
OF the end of the season. Mr.. Thomp-
son withdrew from the firm, discour.
aged, but Mr.. Serungard believed that
by Introducing more economy in the
and watching the market
more closely, and paying for his cream
more in accordance with the market
price of butter he would make the
business pay. AS stated before. the
largest items of expense are the high
priced butter-maker and the cost of
gathering the cream. Mr.. Serumgard
is this year his own butter.m maker, and
with good success, having received the
highest market price paid for Western
creamery butter in New York. The
cream is gathered as high as forty miles
from the place of manufacture. and
though only six and seven teams-two
teams less than last year-have been
kept on the road, more butter has been
made this season than last-as high as
l, SEQ pounds being made in a single
day.
One source Of loss last year was the
hog business, so indispensable an ap-
pendage to every creamery. The two
previous years this had Melted the own.
ers a handsome profit, and it was
thought that if fifty or sixty hogs could
be kept to advantage the herd could be
Increased at will with correspondingly
more satisfactory results so about
200 hundred were kept last season.
This was a much greater number than
the supply OF buttermilk could
keep, and as feed had to bs bought u;
our usual high prices, it is not to b.
wondered at that the hog item con,
tributed $3.50 to the net losses of las
season. 1t is needless to say thuu
repetition of this will be avoided 1ur,nr
the present season, and 40 more hog
will be kept than cln be fed and fatten-d
from the butter-milk.
So far the present management has
been successful. and for the first time
ita cf,1, -,
has left a margin to the party operating
it, and there is good prospect thai ii
will continue to do SO the rest of tn"
season. This gratifying result is due
mainly to the fuct that the man doing
the work is also the manager and is
himself Interested And it is no small
aid to him SO far as OH economic and
successful management is concerned,
that he has grown into the business
right here, and consequently has
thoroughly learned to understand
the problem before him. It is,
secondarily, the success is due to the
fact that the continuous and persistent
efforts to keep the creamery running
has, in measure made the farmers less
shy of the enterprise, and they patron
ize it more literally, though there still
are many grumblers. and there always
will be. Confidence could not be estab-
lished in day; it could only come
when it could be clearly demonstrated
to The farmer that it paid to patronize
the creamery. and it takes some expert
euoe and skill in management even on
the part of the farmer to make it pay.
To show that it has been to the benefit
Of the community at large, we only need
to refer to the fact that the creamery
last year brought into the country trib.
utary to it over $4,000 in clean cash,
an amount which but for the creamery
would not have been brought into the
country. How it pays individuals who
lse reasonable care We beg lelve to show
your readers by citing u couple of in
stances, for whose correctness the writer
can vouch, as he has taken the figures
from the books of Thompson & Serum
gard, and has himself paid the money to
the parties:
Carl Gartman. Cooperstown, N. D.,
sold cream for 800 05, from Nay to
Nov. 10, from twelve cows besides what
was needed for fanily use.
Mrs. Even Munseu, Mardell, n. D.,
sold cream for 1893. AS, from April 20 to
NOV. III, IRON eight COWS besides making
enough butter for winter use and using
all the cream needed for the table for q
family OF ten.
When it is remembered that these re
suits are obtained from scrub stock, by
people new in the business, we have
reason to expect that the benefit to the
farmer will steadily increase as stock
and methods improve, as they surely
will. This is 80 much more sat-
as every cent re-
allied in this way by the farmer is clear
profit, entailing no extra work but milk.
ing. and the stock raiser naturally
looking to the increase to pay expense
of keeping and main profits.
We claim that creameries benefit the
in which they are estab-
lished in the following ways: First,
when properly and economically car
ried, they give the farmers the benefit
of high price. which first class article
always commands, while butter made
by the average farmer is of inferior
quality, and at best can be gotten rid OF
only in barter and is often unsaleable.
Second. it puts large amount of cash
into circulation among the farmers at
time when IL ia most naaeaa6 nv them