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The Creamery Industry.
Tread at South Dakota Dairymeu's conven-
have always known something of
South Dakota and what know is very
much to her credit. | have watched its
development with much interest. Was
acquainted with it long before there was
any Brookings.
II have a warm spot in my heart for
South Dakota people. You may think
from the litls that has been affixed to
my name that 1 am something OF a pol
%ttician, but am only a plain farmer
and resides on my farm down here in
Freedom county, twelve miles from a
railroad. Politics are only an incident
IN my life and | do not spend much
time running around after Office. I
helieve l have too much sense. It is q
mistake to run after politics. 1t is my
ambition in to help my fellow men, and
when | am gone l trust nv posterity
may point with pride TO a life well spent.
I live in a great dairy country. but it
has not always been what 1t is to day.
| am well acquainted with farming in
the early PIONEER DAYS, and when we
raised great crops Of wheat and got a
dollar a bushel for it. but the time came
when we we're driven into diversified
farming. Wheat went down, crops
failed, and we wers brought face 10 face
with hard times. poverty and starvation.
Nearly the same conditions are pre-
vail in your state today.
"Ten Or twelve years ago things were
in a deplorahle condition. Farm lands
were cheap, prices low and crops poor.
and l turned my attention to dairying.
| was one OF the first farmers in Free
born county to go into private dairying.
and after getting we'll established was
fairly successful. Fortunately there
resides at Freebnrn and adjoining coun
ties a great many Danes. and they BIZ
gan an investigation which eliminated
in establishing the first cooperative
creamery in Freehorn county.
"They visited creameries in Iowa and
were astonished at tho prosperity that
prevailed wherever factories we're run.
ming. They came home, called their
%neighhors tosather to report on what
thew bad seen and talk up the project.
They wanted y creamery OF their own
and concluded to make the effort. tt
took four meetings to get the creamery
started. 1t wa mighty up hill business
Mt first people were skeptical. Some
declared it conndn't be done, others
said it wouldn't pay. business men took
no interest and | myself thought it too
far to haul nv milk.
When it came to raising the money
necessary to huild the creamery it was
found that some were we'll prepared to
pay and others not. so it was finally
decided to borrow the entire amount.
But that was not snch an easy matter.
Bankers thonght 1t would prove a fail
nre and we're not willing to risk their
money on a venture OF that kind.
However, the money was finally
secured and tho creamery built. sink
ing fund Of Eve cents on every loo
hounds of milk was established with
which to pay off the debt and the LIST OF
April saw the creamery running. The
first month they paid all running ex-
ppnses. and in two wears had paid of
the debt from the money taken from
the sinking fund.
"Thn first year the milk receipts ran
mp to 4.OOn,OM pounds and the SECOND
year it was 6,O0O,O00 From that time
on the creamery was Il grand success
and the industry began to grow and
thrive until today there is not a township
in Frpehorn comfy that mas not got
one or more creampries. In my town.
ship there ara two. and ona Of then is
- miles from a railroad station. Today
there is manufactured into hntter in
Fraehnrn county alone, over 1%OO,00o,OOo
pounds of milk.
II like the system OF cooperative
rreamprips because IT helps to huild
IN the naiehhorhood. tt helps every
man in 1t. Private dairving only helps
The individual farmer. while these CO.
operative factories bnilt up the township
and the towns and counties.
Now l hear that the dairy business
is too combining. to take care of cows
means work and it keeps the farmer al
home. There is no business in the
world that pays or in which yon can
exppct to succeed without work The
merchant. who spends from twelve Il
fourteen hours n day in his establish
ment the year around deserves to snccped
The merchant. the blacksmith, the me.
chanic and professional nan succeed be.
cause they work every day in the ypal
and the successful farmer must expect
to do the same, Farmers must farm
pverv dav in the wear.
"This does not compel the farmer o.
his family to ovarwork themselves
System ia what is wanted. system and
regularity. I have always pndeavored
20 have some regularity on nv farm.
A time for everything and everything in
its time. We do not dine at nnseemly
hours and when the hours are e xed we
are promptly at II meals. I have not
been late to dinner in my life.
"No matter how busv l am, haying or
harvesting alike. I stop my team on
time and go to my meals. Some farmers
have nosystem whatever and are always
q little behind. This ought t6 he
changed; they shonld emulate the ex-
ample of the railroad and start and