Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-01-14
CREAMERY ASSOCIATIONS.
How to Organize, and a Draft
OF Constitution and
Bylaws.

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communities it has been found
difficult to raise money under
this plan, as many desirable pa
irons were unable to raise the
amount of cash required to build
and equip creamery.
To overcome the difficulty let
each patron of the proposed
creamery sign an agreement
drawn after the form given be.
low marked Reorganization Agree.
ment, signing his name, and the
number of COWS he will agree tc
furnish milk from, to the cream
cry.
It will be noticed that this
agreement provides for borrow.
ing the amount of money neces.
sary to build the creamery, and
that each person signing the
agreements agrees to be respon-
sible for the payments of the
sum borrowed.
When the req uired number of
patrons and COWS has been Sc
cured elf less than four hundred
COWS are secured, we would ad-
wise that the project be dropped,
as it is difficult to make it a sue
cess with less. PROF. r. L.
Hacker, Minnesota Experiment
station.) call a meeting of the
patrons and perfect the or
ganization by adopting and sign.
ing articles Of agreement. We
give below articles of agreement
and bylaws as are in use by the
treeborn Co. creameries, and
have been found to be very salts
factory; of course such changes,
could be made in these as might
be desired. It will be noticed
that article Two of the bylaws,
provides that five cents on each
hundred pounds of milk received
at the creamery shall be retained
to form a sinking fund, to be u.s.
ed to pay off the money borrowed,
and article four of the agreement
authorizes the board of directors
to borrow the sum required, the
loan to be paid back out of the
sinking fund as fast as it is &C
cumulated.
Under this plan, a creamery
that is receiving milk from five
hundred COWS should be getting
ten thousand pounds of milk a
day, if five cents per hundred of
this went into the sinking fund,
it would be five dollars a day,
so that would require from a
year to a year and a half to pay
off the loan, and have the cream
cry clear. The following agree
ment of organization, articles of
association, and bylaws are used
by the Freeborn Co. creameries:
ORGANIZATION AGREEMENT.
We the undersigned citizens of
....... county, state of Minnesota. do
hereby agree to form ourselves into
association, and we agree to borrow
the sum of. dollars, or less,
to put up a building and equip it with
the necessary machinery, and jointly,
to become personally responsible for
the sum borrowed including interests,
the money to be raised in the manner
agreed upon by the association. We
also agree to furnish the milk from the
number of COWS opposite our names:
Names. Cows. .....
Articles of Agreement of the. .......
Association. We, whose names are here
unto subscribed, and whose residence
are within the county Of. 49,. in the
state of Minnesota, do hereby asso-
ciate ourselves together as a corpora
tive association under the laws of the
state OF Minnesota, and have adopted
the following constitution viz:
PARTICLE /.
The name of the association shall be
the. .......... Association and its
place of business shall be at, or near
section. .. in the town of. ...... in
said. ........ County.
ARTICLE II.
The object of this association shall
be the manufacturing of butter or
cheese, both from whole milk at actu-
al cost.
ARTICLE III.
The officers of this association shall
be president, Vice President, Secre-
tary, Treasury, and three Trustees,
who shall be elected annually at the
regular annual meeting of the associa-
to be held on the first Monday of Jan.
uary of each year, and their term OF
Office shall be one year, and until
their successor shall have been duly
elected and qualified.
49, ARTICLE w..
The duties of the respective officers
shall he as fO11ows. Tho D,o,;ao.4