The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-06-07
RHINE sKIMMINe sTATIoN.
Has Been In Operation Since April l.
The Patrons Wen Pleased with
the Venture

To TIE GOODLAND REPUBLIC:
I have been requested to give you a
"write up for our skimming station,
but up to the present time have not
found time. I viii try nov, however,
to give your readers a few facts IN re-
gard to the company and the way they
do business.
The station is the result Of the cream
cry agitation that has been among the
people for the last five years. Some
three years or more ago Mr.. Graft, the
representative of the Continental
Creamery company, came to Goodlsnd
and met with the citizens and farmers
and submitted proposition which was
virtually the same as the one accepted
by the Rhine Dairy association, which,
briefly stated, is as follows: The Con-
tineDtal company ask the people to
form a stock company and put up a
suitable building and furnish a good
well, then the company viii furnish all
necessary machinery to equip said
station for the sum Of 81, 600, 500 stock
of which the company hold. Then they
rent the station from the local com
pany for period of ten years and
agree to operate the same and keep in
repair all machinery.
Now, then, a word in regard to the
Continental company, also our home
company. We have been told that the
Continental company was made up of
bold, bad men that were only waiting
for chance to bleed the people, and
have even heard it limited that the
home company was not far behind
them in that respect. As regards the
Continental company I wish to say
that the men that they have had here
to represent them we found to be much
like other folks. And we presume the
rest of the company are much like the
rest of US, no matter what we are now
or what we may come to. In the be-
ginning at least, God called us "good."
As TO the home company will give the
names Of the officers and directors and
your readers can pick out the rascals
TO suit themselves: The officers are:
W. B. Garfield, president; J. W. Smith,
vice president; W. E. Smith, treasurer;
J. A. CorkiII, secretary; w. S. Cochran,
| z. A. Hurd, Samuel Vassar, J. a. Spen-
Ger, Fritz Rust, directors.
The patrons have already been made
happy by receiving their checks for the
April milk, and all as far as have
heard are well pleased with the result
There are some few that expect to be
right in the "push" when it comes to
the checks on the May delivery, for in
stance: John Wolfrum, who delivered
during May ,O23pounds; Henry Kaiser,
1852; J. A. CorkiIl, 1852; F. A. Hurd,
2,755. The average test for the month
on each of those patrons was as follows:
3 9 10 pounds butter fat per 100 pounds
milk; 10 pounds butter fat per 100
pounds milk; 3 $40 pounds butter fat
per 100 pounds milk; 3 10 pounds but
ter fat per 100 pounds milk.
1 wish to do a little figuring for the
benefit of your readers and all those
who may be interested in COWS and
butter. We will take the milk Of VOL
frum's cows, and suppose he lived 10
miles from the station and was a non
stakeholder in the company: 4,O23
pounds of milk with test of 3 10 per
cent of butter fat, gives l56 90 pounds
butter fat and that at ID cents per
pound (which is one-half cent less than
We got for the April rum would be
S23.53. The expense to come off is:
Cost of delivering 4,O23 pounds milk at
station at ID cents per 100 pounds,
1903; cost Of separating 4,O23 pounds
milk, 40 cents; cost of getting cream to
railroad, S1.17, which leaves him SO. 90
for his months milk. I am not in
formed how many COWS Mr.. Wolfrum
is milking, but 1 am milking eight
COWS. Ny milk for May is as before
stated.
I wish to say to the farmers that are
milking cows that if you live within 10
or 16 miles Of the station that it will
pay you to interest yourselves in the
workings of the station. Come and see
Us. Ed Fender is our genial operator.
He can handle ali the milk you may
bring him Everybody knows Ed. We
believe he is honest. He it is who
weighs your milk, takes out your test
and does yoUr testing. It may interest
some to know that a sample Of the
skim-milk from one Of the water sep
arators so common in the county was
brought to the station with a request
TO have it tested, which was done, aud
it showed q test of II pounds butter
fat per 100 pounds milk. The skim
milk from the station separator wss
tested and the register on it was one
fve-hundredth part Of one-hundredth