The Redwood gazette., 1895-01-17
THE CREAMERY.
Andrew Stewart Scores Several
Points for the Industry,

Points for the Industry.
To The EDITOR: wish, through
the columns of The GAZETTE,
to call public attention to
the feasibility of establishing coop
eratiye creamery at Redwood Falls,
and set forth some of the advantages
that are to be derived from such an
organization. The unprecedented
shrinkage in the price of wheat, the
heavy draft which it makes on the
fertility of the soil, and the uncertain
ty of the crop will in time force the
farmers of the northwest to diversity
in their farming operations, and the
sooner the farmers of Redwood coun-
ty learn that they cannot profitably
settle all their bills by appealing to
the wheat bill, the better it will be for
all concerned.
We would not advocate the idea Of
discontinuing the raising of wheat en-
tirely. The farmer should have many
different sources of revenue with the
dairy as one of the principal means.
1t requires no argument to prove that
Minnesota is destined to become one
of the greatest dairy states of the
Union, and that cooperative creamery
associations are a success wherever
they are inteligently tried.
The fact that the Redwood Falls
creamery did not give general salts
faction to its patrons, as managed last
year, is no proof that it would fail to
do so under the cooperative plan. In
all dairy districts private creameries
give way to those owned and controlled
by the patrons themselves. Had the
Redwood Falls creamery received the
patronage of all the farmers owning
cows within a radius of six miles, and
had we received the price of our but
ter product minus the actual cost of
manufacturing it, we would all be
talking COW, and be spared the humil
iation of asking our merchant "to car
ry us over until next fall"
The success of the proposed enter
prise will largely depend upon the
number of COWS that can be secured
within a radius of six miles, which is
as far as milk can be proftabiy hauled,
and the number of months that Civ
en- quantity of milk can be furnished.
A thorough canvass of the farmers
within the six miles district, with
Redwood Falls as center, reveals
upwards of $50 COWS.
Advices on this point from T. L.
Hacker, superintendent of the Dairy
Department, Experimental Station,
this State, and others recommend
that we should have 400 COWS pledged.
It is stated that if we establish a
plant with reasonable degree of sue
cess Delhi and Sheridan townships
will put in branch skimming stations,
having the Redwood Falls plant to
manufacture their cream into butter.
By supplementing our excellent ma
tive pasturage with tame grasses, corn
fodder. roots, ETC., the necessary sup
ply of milk can be maintained to run
the creamery throughout the entire
year as is the case where conditions
are less favorable than in Redwood
county. The fact that given guam
tity of milk will produce from one
eighth to one-fifth: more butter fat by
separator over old processes, briog
from four to ten cents more per pound
in the market, and that cash. save the
slavish work of butter making to the
good housewife,should assure the sue
ces of the proposed enterprise.
By leasing the present creamery
plant, if it can be secured at reason
able rate, we can begin operations at
an outlay consistent with these hard
times and certainly realize as salts
factory results as by continuing pres
ent methods.
Those of us who have been agitat-
ing the matter are greatly encouraged
by the unity of sentiment we find fa-
vorable to a creamery, and we are not
Indifferent to the part taken by the
GAZETTE in the programme of helping
to make them permanent fixtures in
Redwood county. A. D. STEWART.
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
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