The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-08-28

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Published Every. Friday at Worth
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.Q | )'l' =. u !: Warnin9
K Trust methods have been termed
!, dishonest, land srightly- too. Not
only is this true Of the largest con-
! Germs that control tile output OF
any article, but also 81 the concerns
Of lesser capitalization that want
to centralize an industry to the OK
tent that it may be able to reap
potts on their own price basis, re-
gardless Of their patrons. The dairy
industry of late years has made
rapid strides stimulated by local
creameries and now that the in
dr1stry has become leading one of
the northwest, especially in Mime
sofa and the Dakotas, corporations
have been organized to control the
output of the dairy and reap a
harvest off the stock holders of such
concerns. It should be remembered
by the farmers who have dairy
interests, that the local creamery
has been the factor that has
brought the dairy to a paying basis.
1t is local enterprise that first
ventured into the manufacture of
butter and demonstrated that the
business is remunerative one for
the farmers as we'll as their respec-
tive communities. But that the in
dustry has been developed, is the
reason that big concerns have en-
tered the field with the purpose of
crowding out all the local creamer-
les in order that the said concerns
may establish a ratio of profit sufi-
Gent to pay large dividends on
their stock. The best evidence that
can be produced to substantiate the
statement that big concerns have in
view the ultimate anihilation of the
small creameies, is the follwing circ-
ular received by one Of the patrons
of the Pipestone creamery. one day
last week:
IA WO RID OF WARMING"
We hear of a few local creameries
offering to pay the same basis of
price for butter-fat that We are pay
ing, namely, two cents under the
New York price for fancy ceamery
butter: We would like to ask the
proprietors or stockholders of these
creameries how they can afford to
pay this basis of price when their
records show that they never paid
ON the average better than to 10
cents less than the New York
market2 They simply cannot pay
the farmer the price we offer for
butter-fat without either losing
money or undertaking the test. If
you are a patron of a local or CO.
opertive creamery, it is to your in
terest to gee that you get a correct
test. The price you may get from a
local creamery prove nothing unless
your test is correct. A creamery
with less than at least one thousand
patrons cannot very we'll meet our
price for butter-fat without either
losing money or undertaking the
test OF your cream or milk.
Churning or concentrating plants
will no doubt start up here and
there and they will go the way that
many creameries have gone. The
farmer or patron will pay for the
experience.
= BEWARE!
Beware of the small churning or
centralizing plants, they are simply
limitations, and will eventually fail
for the following reasons:
First-Lack Of Capital.
Second-Lack of Business Man
asement.
Third-Lack of Patronage.
Fourth-Lack of outlet for the
manufactured goods.
For these and several others
reasons they must necessarily, fail,
and when they do fail they leave the
farmer ia the hole, in a measure
make the farmer Suspicious, So We