Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-05-26
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The subject Of good roads shoule
be one Of Importance to creameries
not only in facilitating the hauling o
milk but in getting the butter to th'
depot as well. Some of the cream
cries had three weeks supply OF but
ter on hand during the spring breai
up.
If i had in my employ butter
maker who had the faculty Of keep
ing 15Oto2O patrons all good naturee
I should prize him as one among
dozen. There are just such men scat
tered throughout among the cream
cries. The secretary of creamery was
telling me yesterday of buttermakel
whom they had had in their employ
for years, until just recently when ne
changed places, who had never had a
word of trouble with patron. am
sorry to say that buttermakers are
not all built that way.
Quite often now you hear of a CO
operative creamery being out of debt.
Most of them, however, have part OF
the original debts till left. Those that
are out of debt seem to be more con-
tented, and place greater confidence
in their officers and buttermakers
than those that do not gain anything.
but are still paying interest on the
money borrowed to build the plant.
A great many patrons of creamer-
les that have been very successful,
sometimes give the credit OF ,thier
success to some one who is not in the
least responsible for it. They will say
that through the business ability of
thier secretary or board of directors
they have become what they are This
is true in one sense of the word and
they should have the thanks OF the
patrons. But isn't the man who made
the butter all these years, the man
who has not had poor lot of butter
since he commenced work. the man
who has kept the repairing expenses
away down, entitled to some of the
credit? Yes, I think SO; for if it had
not been for him you could not have
paid him as much for milk as your
neighhoring creamery and still have
a sinking fund to put away to pay up
for the plant. Of course, great
many will say that he was paid for it,
and paid we'll. Perhaps he was in
youi estimation and, if you are still
paying him we'll, all right; but sup
posing your have cut his wages $40 a
month this year, that does not show
any gratitude on your part. There
is ore thing that is we'll to remember.
No buttermaker who has worked in
wet creamery for eight or ten years is
as good man physically as if he had
staid out of the creamery and kept on
on. the farm,
1 believe creamery that does not
pay by the test is not as apt to better
the condition of the patrons herd as
those that pay exactly for what butter
fat the milk contains. Some OF the
best creameries do not pay by the test.
Ali they do is to take sample once
IN a while, just to ascertain if any one
IS skimming Or watering the milk.
At the end of the month every patron
receives just the same per hundred as
his neighbor. I have inquired Of but
termakers, where this plan was used,
why they did it, and they inform me
that they could not hold their patrons
at all if they undertook to enforce
paying by the test. In that case /
would say let them 60 1t is very
certain that they would not all leave.
Those that tested low might go tothe
other creamery but I think when they
found out how much more the patrons
that stuck TO the old factory were get
ting for their milk they would come
back. And then, the principle is all
wrong. No man should get pay for
something he does not furnish and,
as is seen 10y the varieties in the tests
at creameries, one man is getting paid