Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-02-06
COr11ITTEE REPORT.
A Member OF The webster Dele
CATION Writes Up The Recent
Trip To Miibank.


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of obtaining information relative to the
creamery OF that place | will try and r-
late, in ~ brief manner, my expert
ence. Mrssrs. 4 IT.. Alters, Lloyd
Blocker, Ferdinand Hiuze. Edward
A anderson and myself boarded the 1890
east bound train on Friday evening, ar
irving at Milbank about 1890 Saturday
morning and after breakfast the next
morning We were Joined by Peter Holm
quist who had gone down on the train
Thursday evening. Alter %cOHversing q
creamery. This was about 8 o'clock and
We found they had already chnrnrd aud
were preparing to rrmOve the butter,
some 800 lbs, to the butter worker. We
watched the process OF working, sailing
aud packing which | think did not r.
quire over 30 minutes when everything
was cleaned up ready tn churu again
which was done. About this time the
first man appeared with three cans Of
milk. 1t happened to he an old army
friend of mine, Tom Fitch, who is quite
we'll known here And his statement was
to the effect that the patrons wLs re-
ctiving from three to eight dollars per
month for the milk from each COW and
that the average was about $500 per
month from the time the went
into operation, about the middle Of last
June. up to the present time after de-
Quoting DC. I@r each 100 lbs of milk to
put into the sinking fund. Then other
patrons began to arrive and kept com
ing until there was quit" u procession
waiting to d-li ~ tn tir milk nnl We cou.
verSed with u great number q: tn m
They all seem ID to enjoy talking about
tli. success of the creamery and verified
Conrade Fitch's staten pnt with the
singl" exception OF one man who thought
that il the mIIk wHs all sold TO the
| cream-ries there would he no more poor
butter made. such 's the M 'IrhantS h r.
and else where have To ship and sell for
gIras" at n price the eau CT aud
that would cause an overprOductiou oi
good butter and reduce t he price 40 it
would not pay. My answer to him wits
o to try to cross a bridge till he got
to it but to hold on to u good thing as
long 'S it lasted. VIII, We stayed on the
milk was alI delivered lor the d,y.
amounting to ll.0J0 lbs. While there
W. NOTED TIN manner Of rec .iving milk,
Saplr tting, churniis, working, packing
aud cleaning up which was quite inter
esting. Several Of uS went back after
dinner and met Mr.. Mitchell and Smatnr
Luwtiian - Mitchell il president AMI
L,wthian one oi the lar .ct ors-',ud re-
crivrd further inior nation about the
plant us follows: EI;im tted running
EXPENSES per month 5000 Amount 20
tanned Tor sinking iund 100 lbs 81. both
deducted before the milk il settled for.
lee required about | ton per week. House
with aI lition 2lX32 Il. Cost ri win DE
plant $4,000. Average Of milk each COW
20 lbs pr day ior 10 months. Started
with a little over 200 COWS, do not know
how many they htv. n,w blf il th.v
Increase any more they will have tn ell
large their plant. Power, have a Is
horse boiler and a ten horse engint.
They bring milk IL miles and arranSe it
80 one man takes and delivers milk one.
or twice IL week aud clitnges off with his
neigI,hor. One man told M his npigu-
burhood hal arrun ged 10. the umnrr
for six OF them eight miles out tn OLIVER
so that one day each would accom- NJ
date all.
The course pursued to start WAS about
the same as we tried laIt v .tr, Mitch II
went 10 the farmers aud obtainrd the
number of COWS then called Il meeting to
subscribe for stock which he finally oh
tanned after hard work; hesaid there was
great opposition by many farmers who
ARE now begging for shares and none to
sell. They have M printed bylaws and
| could not get u copy ~ they were out
in the country, bnt the supply houses
furnished them and they can be adopted
or changed as the Organization deems
best.
We also talked with the business mel
and they were OF one opinion aud that
was it was II 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 .ry 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 oi as many different patrons ~
possible. Ii IA creamery should be built
here the experiences OF the Milbank people
should teach us that it would he better
TO build IL lar ger house to begin with las
they claim that it would not have cost
bat u trifie more to have put up a larger
bnilding in the beginning, which would
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