The Sauk Centre herald., 1907-02-14

ity and quantity, as piece OF butter
with a reasonable amount of moist
ure in it is more satisfactory than
a dry, crumbly piece.
The packing and package should
all be in uniform SO that when gotten
together for shipment it would have
the appearance of all coming from
one creamery.
AS this man went from one cream
cry to another, he would make list
of supplies needed to last month
and after getting all around order the
whole lot at time. In this item OF
supplies alone there would be big
saving in buying in car load lots over
the regular way of getting a little
bunch at time.
Then this butter each week should
be all gotten together, if possible, at
some station nearby where it could be
shipped in car lots, thus insuring
rapid transportation and good care.
should want our equality man" to
be at the station from which the car
was to be shipped, and score enough
of the butter so he could guarantee
the grade, marking the tubs and keep
record so he could credit the poor
ones, should there be any, to the right
creamery, and then he would be in
position to sell to the highest bidder
and, if he knew his business and the
commission house found out that
they could absolutely depend on it
that the butter would be up to the
grade that was claimed for it, there is
no question in my mind but what he
would have some fine offers, and why?
Are not the commission houses con-
tinuaIly asking for more uniformity
in quality? Do they not even now pay
more for the output from creamery
that is having large make than for
the smaller line, even if the large line
is not quite so good in quality?
Just think of it. Instead of IL to 15
different kinds of butter, different col
ors, more or less salt, all kinds of
packages and packing and several fla
vors, we would have 300 to 400 tubs
looking as though they had all come
from one creamery, all paraffined, all
of one shade of color, all as near rs
possible the same in salt and moist
ure and of fine body, and as near
alike in flavor as the same up-to-date
methods, practically the same starter,
and the same grade of raw material
would produce.
OF course, they would pay more for
such line of butter and they could
afford to, because if for no other rea-
son than that they would need no So
licitor to go over the country and
make a deal with 12 to Is different
creameries. 1t would all be done
through the equality man.
/ imagine hear you say, "Oh boshl
he's had another vision," but nothing
of the kind; this is simply carry
cooperation little farther and can
not see why, If put into practice, it
would not result in a great good to
the creameries of the association.
Some will say that this is using the
method of the centralizers, and why
not, if they have methods that CO.
operative creameries can use to good
advantage and make or save money
thereby? OF course, they should be
businesslike enough to use them and
thereby be better enabled to meet the
centralizers' competition.
However, though the central plant
may save in buying supplies in large
quantities and gain by having theil
butter put up in uniform way, there
are other expenses that they have
which the local and cooperative
creameries do not have, and further
more we know they cannot get the
quality by their system, SO this plan
would aim to make use of the best
in both systems by buying supplies in
large quantities, shipping butter in
car load lots, and in absolute uniform
style, and still best of all holding te
quality, without which there can be
no real success in dairying.
How about the profits and also the
expense?
Take a cou nty with IL to Is cream
cries, we could figure On an average
of 400 tubs per week, or $4,000 pounds
of butter. Now I feel certain that
these 400 tubs of butter if made as
have suggested would bring easily
one cent per pound more than the av.
erage price of those creameries before;
this would make So40.
Now, / am quite positive that the
average yield of the creameries in the
county could be raised at least two
per cent and still be we'll under the
government standard; this would
figure up to S1O5 per week, then fig.
uring $50 as the saving on supplies,
freight, etc., would give US a total oi
1915 per week, 81, $50 per month. This
is entirely within the range of pos.
sibility, and what is a paltry $500 OF
even $500 a month as expense to bring
about that result.
And this is not all, for our equality
man" by his work and continual talk