The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-06
DAIRY AND CREAMERY TALKS
64,oI3.8o

Grand total .$2o4,7oI.4c
The manager submitted the following
report for the year:
Pounds of milk received 46o,48I
Pounds of cream received .o36, 600
Pounds of butterfat from milk is, ,522. q
Pounds of butterfat fromcream 24o,723.5 s
Pounds of butter made ...... 3o2,763
Paid patrons for milk 4,I3ozo
Paid patrons for cream $500. 53,7I2.os
Total paid patrons ......... .$57,842z5
Average milk test, per cent. 40
Average cream test. per cent ...... 25.7
Average per cent ,overrurl 80. 1868
This report of the Clark creamery is
surely very encouraging one,
| lnotb only to the patrons but also to
lothers who NAV be starting or thinking
of starting in the dairy business.
This Isl purely a cooperative asso-
ciation; organized and operated by farin-
ers for, farmers, and is a fine example Of
what may be done by united and persist
ent effort, in business cooperation.
! That the men who have managed this
company so far are the right men for
i 1.-THE place is shown by the figures, and
also by the fact that practically the same
men are running the business now that
started it in 1896, being unanimously
elected at each annual meeting
/ Their butter is sold near New York
| for about IT, cent premium over the
highest price for NJ Y. extras. This
lshows that the buttermaker is surely
| "onto his job" ss ~.
/ The fact that scarcely any cream is
Ishipped away from Clark shows that the
men who milk the cows have unlimited
Iconidence in their home institutions.
/ No mention is made of the number of
Icows that furnish this grand showing,
Ibut orr a basis of 200 pounds of butter
Eper COW, which is more than the aver
Eage yield for the state. there must be
Eabout 1900. ,..g.
i Parties who are thinking Of building
creameries in Dakota will do well to
Inote these figures carefully
II Other creameries that are now idle
because the cream they should get is
Ishipped away to other points should
lalso note what can be done by economy
I'm management, and a real good butter
Imaker. --53%
While the dairy business FIRST of all
ldepends upon the COW, and the "man
beside the cow" the creamery business
Unjust always stand or fall through the
"man beside the churn."
Il The style of machinery in the. Clark
tcreamery is all of the very best and on
Itasting the butter no one could wonder
lat its high price.
Il Another very nice creamery is only
Fable to churn about twice week for
Hack of cream. What butter they do
I1nake is strictly 6rst-class, though made
from cream that in some cases has been
kept far too long. s.
+ The farmers around Henry evidently
do not like to milk, at least not very
lmuch. They appear to be greatly inter-
Tested in, wheat raising, and the inquiry
THAT is uppermost in their minds is how
ltd get rid of wild oats which they say
IlaTe very bad in that vicinity. Now the
ltine may come when they will agree
with me that this terrible weed was
Iireally a blessing by actually forcing
lthem to give up wheat raising, and to
Idevote their land and time to the raising
|of forage crops with which to feed cows,
Iso as to keep @heir nice little creamery
ulilIillST 6NGIy Uey III the ySdI. Lei
Ithem devote part of their oatiest'
Hand to. bronze or other tame grasses
lsuch as timothy, clover, or alfalfa, and
lthese wild weeds will no longer trouble
Ithem
| Or by encouraging the growth of the
weeds through the early summer, then
Iplowing and sowing nlillet to be cut for
Ihay before the wild oats ripen seed,
lthey can secure some very fine hay es-
lpecially for COW feed and at the same
ltime pretty nearly get rid Of the wild
loat crop. Two years treatment of the
Hand should Just about eradicate the wild
loats; and by feeding good dairy cows
land milking them they would keep their
lcreanery supplied with cream and thus
kill two very nice birds with one stone,
while the hard dollars received, for the
butterfat in the cream, would ring a
livery pleasant music in their pockets.
II And furthermore every succeeding
year would see their land worth more
Instead of less.