The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1903-08-14
RHINE SWIMMING STATION.
An Example Of the Dairy Industry
Among Farmers Of the Vicinity.
ThiFty-Six Patrons Market Annually s.
600 worth OF Butter Fat and the
Industry CsrOwing-COw Brings
In From s2 to e. a Month.


Eight thousand dollars this year is the
sum estimated which will pass into the
hards of IS patrons Of the Rhine skim
ming station. located on section s-7-4O-
nine miles northwest Of GOodland. This
is perhaps the most successfully operst-
ed dairy station in Sherman county and
is only two years and three months old.
1t was started in April, 1901, and the re-
ceipts for the next year, 1902, amounted
to $1,000. The first few months in 1901
did not make more than an ordinary
showing. It was an untFied enterprise in
q new country and at first some Of the
farmers looked at the creamery PROPOSE
ton out Of the corners Of their eyes and
were not sure but that it was thing to
be handled shyIy, il at al.
But some Of the holder heads,-those
who had looked into the industry and
saw vision something like cornucopis
these MIXED all their cows, bought
more, MIXED them snd turned the tide
Of this lucrative commerce into the
skimming station and walked out with
the hard cold dollars. 1t soon proved
the greatest temptation to those without
the fold, and the neighbOrhOod for miles
around were not slow in getting in on
the ground floor, which even then hav-
ing only the appearance Of silver, seemed
later to turn into gold.
The names Of So patrons of the station
II
s. Cochran, Henry Kaiser, John VOL
frum, J. B. Light, W. B. Canfeld, Fred
Hurd, Henry Buss, E. Heddinga, George
Wilson, P. Tritchberger, Charles Rohr,
William Dooling, Tom Murray, ]. NJ.
LaBar, s. Caldwell, z. A. Clark, @. B.
Albertson, Fred SCHNEIDER, Orlie Coch-
rane, George HOefer,-WhO take their
milk to the station, while the following
IA members own separstOrs and haul
cream to the plant for test and ship
ment: w. A. Season, Fred Rust, W.
Fortmeyer, +. J. Sexson, Ed Stevens,
Arthur Kemp, II. Gernhart, W. Curry,
W. I. Price, Simon Kemp, J. Gernhsrt,
J. Crockford, W. Ingram and William
Fortmeyer.
The records of Charley LaBar, the
station operator, shows that the average
weight of milk brought to the creamery
for treatment daily is about 4 500 pounds,
while the receipts Of cream for the same
time averages about 500 pounds, making
in all the daily shipment of cream from
the plant to GoOdland in transit to the
Continental Creamery company, of To
peka, somewhere between six and eight
hundred pounds of cream, rich in butter
fat.
This product will test from one-fourth
to almost one-hsf in butter fat and the
Continental company, which is a stock
holder in the plant, buys the produce
and pays ~ cents below the New YorI
butter price for the butter fat. Allow
ing a daily output from the Rhine
creamery of 700 pounds at a 1915 pc
cent test, at II cents pound for butte
fat, the financial return for every da!
will be approximately $40 and make al
average net OF s1.2O a day to eacl
customer Of the station.
The farmers who supply the creamer.
with milk and cream handle from ten L
twenty-five COWS. At this time Of tn
year the product of COW ranges froU
$3.50 to $3.50 a month, and as an eI
ample Of what a bunch Of COWS ar
worth to their owner, the names Of
few dsirymen are given with the nun
Der of COWS MIXED and the MONTH
check for June:
Peter Tritchenberger, . COWS, $50.
John WOlfrOm, 20 cows, s53.1S.
Frank Clark, 20 COWS, $40.
@. B. Albertson, 10 COWS, $3.50.
W. S. Cochran, Is COWS, s32.
OF the 50 farmers, who are supporter
of the Rhine creamery, 80 are stOc
holders in the plant, which earns the
ten per cent in terest on the % Oney i
vested besides exempting them frol
any charge for separating and pasteu
izing their milk.
The creamery station complete, il