The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-02-20
The Creamery.

AS has been briefly announced, TIL e
Spring Brook creamery has been leased
to an experienced butter maker, 5. c.
Johnson, who will be assisted in its man
agement by his nephew, c. H. Johnson.
The latter gentleman is in the city at
present making the preliminary arrange
ments for business. His uncle will be
here before March 1st, and as soon
thereafter as possible active operations
will begin. These gentlemen appreciate
the fact that they enter upon the busi-
ness somewhat Handicapped by the
questionable business methods of the
former lessees of the plant, and they
fully understand that they have some
prejudice to overcome, but they are the
men to do it. They come with the high
est credentials as to their honor and
ability, and they will promise no more
than they are able to perform. They
have implicit confidence in the business
as applied to the conditions existing in
central Minnesota. They are satisfied
that there is no better field for dairying
than Sank Centre and vicinity affords.
Our farm .rs are pretty well convinced
that grain growing Can no longer be re-
lied upon as the sole means for profit.
Last season was exceptionally favorable
to wheat producers, and yet the low
-,,r:roc r,,L;ch coa.,, -, have ..o,,,o 70 cfoy
admitted OF narrow margins of pecunl-
ary advancement. Something else, or
several something's else. must take the
place of the long time sole reliance OF our
agriculturalists. This is seIfevident, but,
to be sure, it is easier to point the way
than to follow it. 1t is notorious fact
that there are no sections ct the country
so prosperous as those devoted to stock
raising and dairying, Wisconsin, Iowa
an d southern Minnesota are. relatively,
in clover.
In recent address delivered by John
L. Gibbs he mas. this to say:
'.Only four years ago last April the
hrst well equipped creamery was started
i'll Freeborn county, and it was the first
one in the state. Its success was so
marked that in short time each of the
twenty townships in the county had its
we'll operated creamery. and the end is
not yet. These creameries have done
more to develop the resources of this
section of the state than the old way of
farming would have accomplished in
years.
Under this plan of making butter. one
good .butter-maker answers for the
whole neigborhood. There is but one
grade OF butter sent to the market, and
to the credit OF southern Minnesota, be
it said, it is tine high grade. The farmer
Just starting in business with no facili-
ties tor making butter is placed on an
equal footing with the wealthy farmer
who has facilities. New lite and energy
enter into the whole neighborhood, and
there is marked improvement every
where.
Freedom county is now sending to the
New York market more than six hum
dred thousand dollars worth of cream
erv butter annually, and Steele county
in proportion to the number of town
ships, is doing equally AS well. The
future of the dairy industry in southern
Minnesota, ! am confident. is full of
nope. It will, for all time. hold its
place AZ one Of the most important
branches Of good farming. Here we
have good water, grand climate
adapted to dairy husbandrv. and nutri-
tious grasses id abundance"