The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-12-25
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hlmball creamery. The creamery is
thoroughly established and it's butter
has reputation in the eastern market
aud always brings the top price. aud ia
financially among the best managed
creameries In the state. We are Inform.
ed that skimming station can be
Quit and run at about half the cost OF a
creamery, and believe a skimmiDQ sta
tlon located at Gam Valley would ac-
c0mm0date more people, could be run
cheaper, would weld a greater profit and
give better satisfaction all around than
ahy other arrangement that could be
made. Gam Valley Chief.
The Chief hits .he nail on the head ex-
actly. There is nothing to be gained by
building a creamery when the distance
will permit Of skimming station being
operated In connection with an establish
ed creamery, but everything to lose.
There are those, to be sure, who profess
otherwise, but close investigation will
generally result in finding personal in-
terest at stake aud not the good Of those
who put their money Into tina enterprise,
and tho net returns to the patrons be-
comes secondary consideration.
A properly equipped creamery costs
three times as much as sklmming
station; and without saying ANYTHING OF
the increased operating expenses OF a
creamery over skimming station, there
is three tlmss the amount Of property
and machinery to keep in repair aud to
pay insurance and taxes on and ten per
cent interest to the stockholders. This
amounts 10 no small sum with a $2.5OO
or $1,000 plant and every cent of it must
come out Of the patrons who furnish the
milk-nobody else pays it. A creamery
TO be successful must pay price for
milk which will bring and retain pa.
irons. This is the whole thing in nut
shell. And while any decent prlce may
hold them for a time. they become dis
satisfied upon finding other creameries
{ doing better than their own.
/ We think that it Will be admitted that
!; everything else being equal, it is not
possible for a creamery fifteen or twenty
miles from railroad to compete with
one more favorably located. When to
this is added the fact that there is only
! two or three creameries out Of the one
hundred odd in the state chat has paid
! the price for milk that the Kimball
creamery has, 1t is good concern to
double up with.
The supposition that il costs but lit
tlo more to operate full creamery than
askimming station and that the expense
Of hauling the cream in daily equalizes
the difference. is wide OF the truth, as
anyone can learn by investigating the
matter.
The GRAPHIC is not prepared to speak
definitely for the directors Of the Kim
ball creamery company, but it is conf
dent that skimming station within
reasonable distance of town can be so
operated that the patrons Of it will re-
ceive exactly the same price for the
milk as paid the patrons OF the main
plant and dividend OF 10 per cent paid
to the owners Of it-exactly as is doue
in the Kimball creamery company.
This is all that anyone could ask and
something not Likely with any iudepen-
dent creamery.
When successful creamery is running
under full head six months in the year
it is doing a business Of 800 day aud
i. takes sight Of care. responsibility
and hard work to look after it. It is the
easiest thin; in the wcrld to lose from
900 to $lOO a month iii the handling of
that much milk, the saving or losing of
which accounts for the success and fail
ures OF creameries.
For years creamery men have been
urging the concentration Ot the business
so US tO produce maximum amount of
butter with a minimum cost. A cream
ery that has tho handling and placing a
IargeamouDt Of butter, whether through
heavy milk receipts Of its own or through
skinlming stations, has Il marked adyan-
| tage over smaller concern. ln the
first place, such IA creamery eau afford
the best Of butter makers and produces Ii
large amount Of butter Of even grade.
ln the next place the commission men
who sell the butter hold out special i'll
ducements to large shippers OF Ene
goods, for the simple reason that they
4 can place 1t to better advantage than
small lois with no more trouble nor ex-
pelse and With 4 corresponding greater
profit TO themselves.
The GRAPHIC. ls intensely interested 10
the building up Of the creamery busi-
ness iu thls sectiun aud in THIS county
and has lO other desire than to SEE 1t
gone about III The easiest, most ecunonl-
4 lc Il aud most practicable way possible.
We have pointed out in these columns
that there ls nothing ta be gained by
the K,mbali creamery by skimming
stations that will no. he OF mutual ad-
vantage TO all concerned. But there are
always those VINO are so afrali thai
someone Is <. ing to uiako |: dollar that
they lose i've themselves in 1Iying IL
( preyentit. The.pt"jectUrs Ul Il, Altn-
ball creamery fad tins spirit TO ngnt
from the start. " Is llle t.rn,ers WIZ
have COWS aud WHO wait to get Uul OF
those cows every dollar that there is III
them tina. W. are loOrllg afler, and NC
don't wan. TO see them go down into
their jeans fvt d tet o. nAfd-raruet,
Y money To huiht IL costly tr-ampry ipr
somebody 8" experiment viii, when q
modest investment will bring .hem az
good II not hetter returns.
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