Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-03-21

of emulation in this state. The Sioux
Falls Argus-Leader,i in speaking of the
butter making industry in South Dakota
says:
There is scarcely a creamery or cheese
factory in the state that will not increase
its capacity the coming spring, and a
dozen or more new plants will be started
whose wealth producing facilities will
be added to the 185 or more similar fac
tories now in operation. A gratifying
feature of the business is that a very
large per cent of the creameries have
continued in operation during the WIN
ter, something quite unusual except in
the larger towns. AS the benefits of
those industries become known their
patrons increased, and now scores Of
farmers are giving special attention to
dairying in this portion of the state
where three years ago it was difficult to
find half dozen farmers who kept COWS
except for family use or for little but
ter for market. Those more directly in
terested are improving the quality of
stock kept and each season witnessed
marked strides in this direction.
A farmer who does not keep from half
find in this locality.
The creamery in this city is one of the
largest and best in the state, and dis
| tributes thousands of dollars to farmers
each month; it has saved many a settler
his home and put him in comfortable
circumstances: the plant will be much
improved this spring. Other creameries
in the county enjoy liberal patronage
and are doing fine business; a new
creamery will be in operation at Hitch.
cock early in April. The cheese factories
have done an increased business during
the past year. The output of the Glover
Hill factory was fifty tons of cheese last
year.
A new creamery has just been estab
lished at Esmond and is doing a fail
amount of business. Machinery for the
new plant at Bancroft has been ordered
and will soon be put in place. The
Lake Preston creamery is rapidly gain.
ing in favor and it's patrons are fully
satisfied with what it is doing for them
| For December the Iroquois creamery
received nearly 100000 pounds of milk
the highest receipts for the year: for
which it paid 81 cents per 100 pounds.
The DeSmet creamery which always
makes fine showing, distributed nearly
S68,OO0 among its patrons last year. The
one at Willow Lakes. although not a
large institution, is one of the most sue
cessful in this part of the state. It re-
ceived more than l8, 600 pounds of milk
during December; although butter that
month was lower in price many of the
patrons of this creamery drew snug sums
at the close of business for the month.
l Nho ,l AL-S
nine months milk eight patrons received
from $500 to $500; seven received from
$3.50 to 5000; fifteen received from 500
to $3.50 and forty six received less than
500, making total for the nine months
of about $1,000.
The Salem creamery comes to the
front with showing that will prompt t
farmers in that locality to increase their
dairy herds. j. v. Jessen of the Doland
creamery will be the buttermaker at the
Salem plant the coming season, and his
brother, who has been operating the
Conde creamery, very successful little
plant, will take charge of the Doland
creamery. G. S. McCrath, who operated
the Salem creamery for the past year
will take charge of the creamery at
Mandan, N. D. There is demand for good
buttermakers all over the state, but
they must be sober, industrious and
thoroughly competent. Such men can
find plenty of work at good wages.
One who has done some figuring, says
that the milk received at the DeSmet
creamery during 1900,,if hauled by rail
would require twenty trains of twenty
cars each, allowing 10000 pounds per
car; it would take 104,993 eighty pound
cans to hold the milk, and if these cans
-were set side by side they would reach
twentyone miles, or, if stood on end
would make mountain forty-three
miles high; it would require twenty cars
of 10000 pounds capacity to transport
the butter from this milk to market.
This gives faint idea of the magnitude
of the business of the nearly 200 cream
cries now in successful operation in
South Dakota.