The Dickinson press., 1891-07-25
is this year his own butter. maker, and

is this year his own butter-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
1,5c0 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 netted 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 and so about
200 hundred were kept last season.
This was q much greater number than
the supply of butterlnilk could
keep. and as feed had to be bought at
our usual high prices, it is not to be
wondered at that the hog item con-
tributed $3.50 to the net losses of last
season. 1t is needless to say that a
repetition of this will be avoided during
the present season, and no more hogs
will be kept thames be fed and fattened
from the butter-milk.
So far the present management has
been successful, and for the first time
since its establishment the creamery
has left q margin to the party operating
it, and there is good prospect that it
will continue to do so the rest of the
season. This gratifying result is due
mainly to the fact that the man doing
the work is also the manager aud is
= himself interested. And it is no small
, aid to him so far as All economic and
! successful management is conc. rned,
. that he has grown into the business
, right here, and consequently has
thoroughly learned to understand
= : %secondarily, the success is due to the
! fact that the continuous and persistent
: : efforts to keep the creamery running
: ! has, in a measure, made the farmers less
= shy of the enterprise, and they patron.
e ize it more literally, though there still
: !, are many grumblers, and there always
u will be. Confidence could not be estab.
= lished in a 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.
= ence and skill in management ever Oh
I the part of the farmer to make it pay.
u To show that it has been to the benefit
of the community at large, we only need
/ to refer to the fuct that the creamery
last year brought INTO the country trib-
Z utary to it over $15, COO in clean cash,
an amount which but for the creamery
would not have been brought into the
country. How it pays individuals who
: !. use reasonable care We begleave to show
! your readers by citing a couple of in.
: stances, for whose correctness the writer
= can vouch, as lie has taken the figures
from the books Of Thompson & Serum
gard, and has himself paid the money to
: the parties:
t Carl Gartman, Cooperstown. N. D.,
!; sold cream for 300 O5, from May 1 to
!, Nov. 10, from twelve COWS, besides what
:. was needed for family use.
. : Mrs Even Munsen, Mardell. N. D.,
= !, sold cream for 500. 46, from April 20 to
. Nov. 10, from eight COWS besides making
enough butter for winter use and using
> all the cream needed for the table for a
, family of ten.
When it is remembered tina t these re-.
suits are obtained from scrub stock, by
people new in the business, VIC have
reason to expect that the benefit to the
farmer will steadily increase as stock
!, and methods improve, as they surely
will. This is SO much more sat
isfactory, 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 crenmeries benefit the
communities 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 a first class article
always commands, while butter made
by the average farmer is of inferior
quality, and at best can be gotten rid OF
Second, it puts a large amount of cash
into circulation among the farmers at a
time when it is most needed by them.
Third, it benefits indirectly by stimulat-
ing the interest in stock araising. To
prove that the latter will soon become
q veritable gold mine to our farmers
allow me to quote q few
letter recently received from H. A.
Heath, who has just concluded q tour TO
investigation in North Dakota and other
western and southern states to gather
statistics for the department of agri-
culture at Washington OF which to base
the future prospects of stock raising.
Mr.. Heath says:
!, "There is nc question of adaptability Of
: North Dakota for stock raising, especi-
! ally for sheep, horses and maturing
steer cattle. The outlook for besf
> cattle is better than for many years, and
there is no legitimate reason why the
' same condition should not continue.
q "About 5000, 900 she cattle have been
: thrown on the market through the last
y four years, hut owing to the turn in the
markets, it has now stopped and it will
take several years to recover to the old
. point of production, and ut the same
time, our population is rapidly increas-
ing. There never was a time when we
. had so few beef cattle to the thousand
= population as now"
: MIR. Heath vas appointed by Score
y tary Rusk because Of his experience as
. shown by work already done for the de-
partment, and knows what he is talking
J J about. s. 8.
" SEEMING Party Drowned,
e LOUISVILLE, July 19.-While SEEMING
in the Tennessee river near Murray yes
It terday Ed Brown, Walter Strader, John
. . NJ. Meades, Dick Eaves and John T.
Brame we're drowned. The party num-
p bered eight. They tiedone end of their
n seine, seventy-fve feet long, to the bank
= and stretched the netting nearly straight
b out into the river. Stationed at inter.
walls near the outer end the eight men
l. with shoes, hats and coats off, swan
3 with the seine poles towards shore.
q None of them we're we'll acnuainted with