Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-02-06
COMMITTEE REPORT.
A Member OF The webster Deie-
CATION Writes Up The Recent
Trip To Milbank.


Of W-bstps and %vicinIt..' who visited Mil
bank on last Saturday Tor the purpose
of obtaining information relative to the
creamery of that placr | will try and re-
hate, in n brief manner. my own expert
encr. Mrssrs. 4 II. Ahi-rs. Lloyd
Blocker, Ferdinand Hinzr. Edward
Anderson mud myself hoardrd the 1880
east bonud train ON Friday evening. nv
morning and after breakfast thu next
morning we Were joined 10y Peter Holm
qnist who had gone down on the train
Thursday evening. Alter cohvrrsing q
few minutes w all repaired to the
creamery. This was about q o'clock and
we found they had already chmrned and
We're preparing to rrmov the butter,
some 800 lbs, to the butter worker. We
watched the process of working, sailing
aud packing which | think did not re-
quire over 30 minutes when everything
was cleaned up ready to churn again
which n done. About this time the
first man appeared with three cans OF
milk. 1t ha pprned to be- an old army
friend al mine, Tom Fitch, who il quite
well known here and his statement wa
to the effect that the patrons WIZ re-
ceivIng from three to eight dollars per
month for the milk from each COW and
thai the average II about $500 per
month from the time the creamery wen
into operation, about the middle al last
June. mp to the present time after de-
Quoting SC. Imr each 100 lbs oi milk to
put into the sinking fund. Then other
patrons began 10 arrive aud kept coin-
ing until there was quite u procession
waiting to deli ~ tn ,ir milk AMI we cou-
They al seem d to enjoy Talking about
the success of the cretnnrry and verified
Comrade Ftch's STATEN rnt with the
singl" exception OF one a who thought
that ii the mix was all sold to the
creamerips there would he no more poor
butter made. such iiS the IN 'rchantS h re-
aud else " here have To ship and sell for
grras" ut any price the can GIT and
that would cause an overproduction of
good butter aud reduce t he price SO it
would not pay. My answer to hin WIS
not to try to cross a bridge till he got
to it but to hold on to a good thing IA
long a. it lasted. Well, We stayed on the
ground until after il O'clock whrn the
milk was all d.liverrd Tor the d ~.
amounting to l1.0J0 lbs. While there
We noted th- manner Of rec living milk,
separating, churniug, working. packing
aui cleaning up which WAS quit" inter
esting. Several Of Us went back after
dinner and met Mr.. Mitchell aad ! .nator
Lowthian - Mitchell il prrsid mt aid
LDwthiau one oi the DIR .ct ors-and re-
criv4d further information about the
plant rs follows: Estim ,ted rnnning
EXPENSES per month 5000 Amount r.-
taiuel for sinking iund 100 lbs 81. both
deducted before the milk il settled for.
Ice required about | ton per weak. House
with uliitiOn 24x32 T.. Cost ot wi, be
plant $1,000. Average oi milk eacl, cow
20 lbs per day ior 10 months. Started
with u little over 200 COWS, do not know
how many they have NV buG il tn ~
increase any more thew will have to eI-
large their plant. Power, have a. ID
They bring milk IL miles aud arranSt it
40 one man takes aud delivers milk once
or twice IA week and changes off with his
npighbor. One man told M his neign-
borhood had arran ged 10 the summer
for six Of them eight miles ont to q diver
so that one day each would accom- NJ
date all.
The course pursued to start wasabout
the same as we tried last var, Mirch III
went 10 rhe farmers aud obtained the
number of COWS then called "A meeting To
subscribe for stock which he finally oh
tanned after hard work; Iiesaid there was
great opposition by many farmers who
are now begging for shares and none to
sell. They have no printed bylaws and
| could not get Il copy IA they We're out
in the country, but the supply houses
furnished them and they can b. adopted
or changed AZ the organization deems
best.
We also talked with the business men
and they were OF one opinion and that
was it was u great benefit, and the ban
ker said he had no demands for small
loans from the farmers last year that he
thought it was because the creamery
paid out money ev Ty month.
Now | think The other gentlemen who
were there with me will verify my state
ment, and we did not all converse with
the same parties but tried to get the
/. opinions OF as many different patrons IA
possible. Iii "a creamery should b. built
here the experience OF the Milbank people
should teach us that il would be- better
to build u larger house to begin with as
they claim that it would not have cost
hat IS t-::ac .':ns.. - i.as. pat W. u larger
a HIAs 4 --..