The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-01-04
CREAMERY HELPS FARMERS.
What the Fairmont Creamery Has Ac-
complished for the Farmers His
tory of this Growing Institu-
ton.

Twenty-Five years ago promoter
came to the little town of Fairmont,
Neb., and with guileless ways, pleas
ant words, and an abundance of hot
air, delightfully."- warmed the credulity
of the business men and farmers of
Fairmont. Incidentally he loaded a
creamery on the community. The
community had just about as much
use for a creamery as they had for an
airship. This creamery was a failure
as a vast majority of such creameries
always have been. After a year or
more of trial most of the stock holders
were anxious to get out of it and said
to the few who still believed the en-
terprise had future, agree to run
the business and we will turn our in
terests over to you. So in 1883 the
present Fairmont Creamery Co. was
organized. j. H. Rushton, one of the
original stock holders, and now presi-
dent of the company has always believ-
ed in the industry. He has seen its
possibilities. He knew it must he
developed. His faith, forethought,
perseverance, and management has
made the Fairmont Creamery Co. the
best managed, the most continuously
successful, both to the patrons and the
members of the company of any cream
cry company ever organized. His
policy has been that the producer
should be protected by the largest pos
sible returns consistent with an eff
Gent and economical management and
a reasonable profit on the investment,
that the company is the servant of the
patron. 1t is this policy that has made
the satisfaction of the Fairmont
Creamery Co. S patrons so universal
and has made it the marvel of other
companies. In 1888 the company did
a business of about $4,000. In 1904,
50, $50, 623. Is. The business for 1905
will be something more than double
that of 1904.
From the little town of Fairmont
the business has grown till it has
centralized plants located at Denison
and Manning, Iowa and Omaha, Crete,
Fairbury, and York, Nebraska, and
receives cream from six different state
of the great middle west. Its highests
daily output has increased from less
than $50 lbs. of butter the best day in
1883 to something over 100, 900 lbs. of
butter for the highest daily make in
1905. Its growth has been a steady
development, just as the farmer who
settles on an eighty acres, by energy,
economy. and forethought, accumulate
enough to buy the eighty adjoining
, and so on, till finally he has sec
ton. This is only word in general
as to the growth and history of tn,
company.
Now as to Crawford county in par
ticular: what is being done there:
The Fairmont Creamery company wa.
established in Crawford county il
1900, not quite six years ago. Fol-
the II months of 1905 ending Decem.
:. Der LIST, the Fairmont Creamery Co
;. has paid to the farmers of Crawford
. county for cream alone $S8, 766.O9 Be
4 sides, has paid for labor in gathering
y the cream and handling it at the
q Denison factory SIT, $40. 10. Of thi
$40, 207.42 was paid for labor residin.
i in Denison and $7,371.77 was pait
elsewhere throughout the county, max
ing grand total paid out in Crawfor,
county for cream and labor in clever
months of $lO6, 345. %. This is exclu
sive of anything paid to travelling mel
or for transportation, simply tn.
n amount to the farmers for cream ant
for labor in hauling and handling the
y same
1t is worth while for every farme,
0 who milks cows and every business
interest resident in the county to stol
q and think what this Industry means tt
the prosperity of Crawford county a
O a community.