The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-10-25
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Reasons why Good Creamery 10 q
Benefit Both to a Town and
Farmers

The writer once heard the great
labor leader, T. v. Powderly, make
the remark, that in his town, Scranton,
Pa, there were hundreds Of people
whom it would take years OF edu-
cation to educate them to the point
that they would know they had any
rights at all; and when we remember
that the farmer of the Northwest has
from childhood up been accustomed
to take his produce, his grain to the
elevator and hunbiy ask what will
you give me for my wheat, take what
he could get, 60 to the merchant and
give him what he would ask. Is it
any wonder that the farmer as class
lacks the self-reliance needed to do
something for himself.
In former years. this system OF
taking what the other fellow would
give and pay what he would ask-bad
as it always was-had some redeem
ing features about it, as long as the
local mill or elevator would fix the
price on wheat and the home merchant
the prices on merchandise what profit
there was would be theirs and the
money they made would stay at home,
but it is different now. Some trust
or combine somewhere fixes the price,
manipulate so as to get all the profit
on your produce, some trust fixes not
only the cost price but also the SELL
ing price of all kinds of merchandise
on margin, on the basis of keeping
to themselves all that the traffic will
bear, all the profit of the farmers, all
the profit of the merchant goes to the
trust, only bare living left-nothing
for building or other improvements.
No work for the workmen, no work
for the mechanic. Business is dead.
In this crisis as we'll as others the
farmers must come to the rescue and
the farmers of Minnesota are coming
to- the front very fast when nature
reduced the yield and the Wheat Ring
the price of wheat, the farmers of the
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their attention to beef, cattle and
hogs, until the beef trust got after
them then they just resolved that if
there is one thing the trusts will not
do it is to milk cows. We have found
a "trust buster' now. There never
will be milking trust.
The farmer and his family must do
his own milking, she can do his own
churning and market his own butter
through his own Cooperative Farmers
Creamery and the hundreds of such
creameries show that they are doing
as we'll as can be expected, shows
that majority OF the farmers has
learnt to stand on their own feet; of
course we have some yet who will
milk their COWS, take their cream and
sell it to some one who will make a
profit on it rather than to keep that
profit to themselves, but this class of
mixers are now getting so scarce that
cream trust will never live on it.
With their best efforts they cannot
feed the animal sufficient to keep it
from starvation. It is not only in
the southern part but all over the
state now the Farmers Creamery is
getting in it's good work.
Our own creamery, The Sank Lake
Creamery, here at Sank Centre,
churned over nine thousand pounds
OF butter during the month of
September, 1906 and received therefor
in cash the sum of $4,000 and our
patrons received 2311a cents per pound
for their batter fat. This shows that
any creamery of this class can get
the top price for its butter if they have
enough of it to make it an object for
buyers to cater to us, and it must be
borne in mind that the expenses are
practically the same whether we churn
four thousand or forty thousand
pounds per month and will be so
much less per pound.
The above good result has been
obtained by some of our patrons have
added more cows, and by the addition
OF some substantial patronage the
past month. We have during the
month of September added to our
previous long list of patrons,
among other the following substantial
| farmers:
Aug. Wehrhahn and G. w. Parker
of Ashley, Ignutz and J. E. Eben-
stiner of Grove, Andrew N. Larson,
August Ekberg and Ole Trones of
Kandota, and others who know
good thing when they see it.
Some of our patrons received very
substantial checks for the month
for instance: G. G. Calkins $72.48, A.
Miller $54.56 G. M. Deyoe $5O.66 and
neither of these men forms a town.
ship either.
Bring your cream to the Farmers
Cooperative Creamery. Get more
COWS, more corn and more clover.