The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-02-15
The crea,nelies.

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The cooperative or stock-holding cream.
cries appear to be the fad now, but what
OF it? A cooperative creamery in Kim
ball means something like $500 sub
stock. It's one thing to talk
ABOUT it, but it's quite another thing TO
raise the money. II would req uirp an
average Of 500 stock from every bust
ness man on the street, and half the
total amount would have TO be subscribed
by the farmers themselves. A private
creamery beats 10 creamery Mt all
beats nothing clear out OF sight. Push
it along.
A McCook county farmer publishes a
card in the Salem Special stating that
from four cows, two of them three year
old heifers. lie made from jan. 4, 1895 to
Jan. 3, 1896, 1882 pounds of butter. As
he is an expert dairYman it is safe to
say that he got Is cents straight through
for his butter. This would mean SAP
for each COW. Now, it is admitted by
everybody that the modern creameries
get a considerable increase of cream
over the old method of setting the milk
some as high as % per cent more-and
so far Us we have read none of the
creameries operating in the state got
less than II cents net for their butter
during the past year. 1t is easy to be
seen, therefore. had this particular Me-
Cook county former had access to a good
creamery, lie would not only have
saved all the labor OF butter making,
but his cows would have paid him nearer
$50 cath than $40.
The dairy commissioners report Of
Iowa for 1895 shows the average earn
ings of each COW supplying milk to the
creameries was $61.S4. Now il an Iowa
farmer can afford to send to South Da-
kota and pay $50 for cows, pay the ex-
penses of the buyer and freight, pasture
them but six months in the year at the
most-and on $50 an acre land at that
feed $12 hay the other six months, and
grain galore, ard still make a COW pay
her way, what can a South Dakota farmer
do with proper management? Don't
say the Iowa men get more for their
bntter-those taking their milk to the
creameries-for they don't. The cream.
cry butter from South Dakota for the
past six months has rated IL cents per
pound above the famous Elgin butter in
the New York market. The freight
on a pound Of butter from South Dakota
is only * cents.
Oyer-worked farmers wives will hail a
kimball creamery with poems of praise
None but those who have had the ever
lasting milk skimmlng, churning, pan
and can washing day after day can ap-
preciate the work Of farm dairylng, es-
p%ecially with no more convenience than
has the average prairie housewife.
Il
Mayor FO0te has written Prof. Wheat
on, the creamery expert, asking him to
visit Kimball and meet our farmers and
business men in an informal talk on the
Creamery business. Prof. Wheaton is
in great demand at present, and if he
can be secured he Will have something
to say worth hearing. His talks are
very interesting and he understands the
cow and what she is capable of tho
roughly.
In common with most farmers here
abouts we agree that it is a question
whether it pays to feed any considerable
amount OF grain to cows with butter at
8 and 10 cents a pound. But there can
be no question about heavy feeding
when Is to 20 cents can be obtained for
butter. and at these prices the limit of
grain fed should be governed only by the
amount of grain the COW can consume
Herein lies n great advantage in d
creamery. 1t is a great deal less work
and takes less capital to get $40 worth
Of butter from one COW than it does tc
obtain the same amount from three
cows.
The milk from 500 cows is enough It
start q creamery on. Plenty more COWS
to be had when the thing is a demon
strated success, always. When a farmer
finds that a creamery can get from Is tt
% per cent more cream from his mill
than he can and he receives double price
for his butter-and doesn't have to make
tit does mol take him long to learr
where his interests lie.
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The Iowa dairy commissioners ropor,
shows an increase of the number of co
operative creameries in the state during
the past year. The average number o
COWS to a creamery is S54, and som
counties of sixteen townships hav'
twenty-five creameries, and many o
them average more than one dreamer.
to the township.
Don't cr0ak. Suppose there should b,
an over supply Of creameries, it woult
be the other fellows not the South Dako
ia creameries that would have to shu'
down. We can keep five cows here al
less expense than the Iowa or Wisconsin
farmer can one.
s"&
A person who has gone to the trouhl
to find out says a creamery in Kimbal
is within easy reach of the patronag
from 1890 cows.
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Thirty new creamery organization
are now under way IN this this state, al
started within the last month.
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Mitchell has 4 creamery organization
under full Roadway and $3.50 in stoc
subscribed.
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