Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-02-15
FRED. W. HARRIS Editor.
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Why not have a Creamery
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BRISTOL, - ID FE5. 10TH. 1894.
EDIToR REPoRTBR AND FARMER:
There be some poor fools in the
world who do not recognize the
right of a newspaper to touch upon
subjects which oncer the farmer.
They are ever ready TO eriticise such
articles and make sport of the author;
but was aver n of them known to
reply to such an article, in print, and
thus lay before an admiring public
the production of his gigantic intel
lect? No; such a proceeding would
be far beneath him. This same type
of humanity will be the first to throw
cold water over your creamery ar
ticie. You are all right; peg away!
You may not hit the nail on the head
every time, but you will be instru-
mental in making people think, and
from thought man is enabled to
achieve
| have the distinction, If not the
honor, of owning and operating the
first creamery ever erected in this
county. and as my years experience
in the business has proved to be very
valuable to me, perhaps it may be
of some value to Others also.
My creamery was not put in as an
superintendent experiments are
costly, and my financial resources
are limited-but az an infant indus
try. which would n day grow into
a healthy and necessary institution.
When one looks upon u grass-cov-
cred prairies; our abundant supply
OF good water, both i'm lakes and i'm
s~ubterranean reservoirs; when II is
taken into consideration that land
costs but little, and that the only ex-
pense connected with the dairy bust
ness is the labor OF putting APP win
ter feed, what other conclusion can
n reach than that this grand u
try is bound to become the home of
thousands of progressive, prosperous
farmers.
Cows are good property; cows and
hogs are better; but the man who
keeps COWS, hogs and poultry, and in
addition raises what produce he can,
is on the short road to affluence-if
he keeps out of debt. Almost
everyone now recognizes the fact
that the dairy business is destined to
be the main of this region,
therefore nothing more need be said
concerning this point. Wheat is
very well in its place, but a one
resource country is but of little
value. A prosperous fortune awaits
this country because of her many re-
sources.
What a golden opportunity the
BUSINESS men of Webster missed,
q few years ag5. when they allowed
their creamery project to FAM through,
and that too, after going to the ex-
pense of constructing the building,
I See what serious consequences re-
i'ult from Indifference. Had the
| own and progressive farmers insisted
'n completing the work. what a
grand thing it would now be for all
lloncerned. Instead, however. of
laving an important and established
usiness, with the country full of
pws to support it, Webster is be-
lind her sister town. Bristol, in en-
erprise, and with no definite pros
'ect ahead, even now, for a start in
ne right direction. Is Webster
'lch a dolt, so blind to her own in
rests, that she is going to wait for
he farmers TO do for her what any
'wn with enterprise would do for
e farmer? If she is. then her bust
IS mcn had best be looking up
Nv locations.
The plan of establishing cooper
i've creameries around through the
unity is not practicable AT this time.
ven il the farmers were willing to
Ike stock and to put in a creamery.
ey would make nothing out of it
G iirst year, as, with the limited
mber of cows it IS possible to Sc
re, a creamery absolutely will not
" more thar ~exDenSps tho first