Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-12-07
COOPERATION CREAMERY
FOR ILLINOIS VALLEY
Company to be Oreanized at
Dairy and Fine Stock Meet
Ing at kerby Saturday.


on Saturday, December Is. This
meeting was saked for by W. H. Car
ter president, of the Josephine County
Stockmens Association, E. F. Meisner
andG. S. Matheson who called on Thurs
day last week at the office of Meserye
q Meade to have Mr.. Meserve ar.
range for a dairy and fine stock meet
ing at Kerby. Messrs. Carter and Meis.
ner each have fine farms near Kerby
and heretofore have given their at.
tention largely to beef cattle and hay
raising, but they are now planning
to take up dairying. Mr.. Matheson is
an owner with Carl johnson in a
small creamery which they put in
last Spring near Kerby on Sucker
creek. These gentlemen so fully
recognize the importance of dairying
and fine stock raising as the leading
industries for the farmers of Illinois
that they with other progressive men
of that rich Valley have undertaken
to inaugurate a campaign of educa.
tion on dairy and stock methods for
that section of Josephine county.
As Josephine county has had in the
last two years more than its share Of
farmers institute and other counties
of the state are asking for institutes,
Mr.. Messrve was not certain that an
institute could be had for Kerby this
year as DR.. Jas. Withycombe, director
OF the experiment station of the Ore
gon Agricultural College. had informed
that as the institute fund appro-
priated by the legislature was but
$25OO he would not likely be able to
have sufficient money to meet the ex.
penses of 30 many institutes over the
state and would have none for this
Winter in this county. So anxious
were Messrs. Carter. Meissner and
johnson for farmers meeting at
Kerby that they offered that the ex.
pense OF the speakers would be paid
by the business men of Kerby and the
farmers of that section. With this
encouraging showing, Mr.. Meserve
took up the matter with DR.. Witty
connie with the result that he will
hold farmers institute at Kerby and
arrange that the speakers be paid out
OF the institute fund DR.. Witty.
combe will have with him William
Schulmerich of Hillsboro, one of the
most successful dairymen of Oregon,
E. I. Judd, of Turner, the we'll
known breeder of fine horses and also
a large dairyman, and Charles Me-
serve. DR.. Withcyombe will speak
on Forage Plants" Mr.. Schulmerich
on ''The Breeding and Care of the
Dairy Cow" Mr.. Judd. on "The
Horse on the Dairy Farm" Mr.. Me-
serve will assist the farmers of Illinois
valley in organizing cooperative
creamery company and will take with
him copy of the constitution and by.
laws of such organization for use at
this meeting.
This cooperative creamery com.
pany is for the purpose of taking over
the creamery located near Kerby
that was built last Spring by Geo. S.
Matheson, a Sucker Greek dairyman.
and Carl johnson, young farmer of
that section. The creamery has not
had the patronage of the farmers that
it should have and it is planned to get
the farmers to go into dsirying more
extensively and to become regular pa
irons Of the creamery that the Illinois
Valley Creamery Company Is to form.
The plan is securing the hearty sup
port Of the leading farmers of that
Valley and the company will have a
large membership and strong financial
backing. The present creamery will
be enlarged and an expert butter
maker appointed. The building,
which is new, is large enough to ac.
commodate a plant to handle the
cream from a thousand cows. 1t
expected that with this Spring that
the cream from 400 COWS can be had
for the creamery. Even with the
limited supply of cream had this past
year Messrs. Matheson & johnson
were able to demonstrate that the
creamery can be made a profitable ON.
dertaking when given the support
that Is possible in that Valley.
] The Illinois Valley has the soil.
water and climate to make 1t a first.
class dairy district. This Valley has
length Of 40 miles and a width of 20
miles and in addition to the main
river it has many small streams that
each have fine grass land and the time
will come when the Illinois Valley
Will have 5000 COWS and be noted as
one Of the best dairy sections of
Oregon and one of the most prosperous
parts Of the state.