Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-09-04
Brother Beels Still Saying Things
About The Creamery Business.

We have no dispute with Brother
Beels, Of the Hopkinton Leader nor
with any one else for that matter, in
reference to anything in any way
calculated to benefit the dairy in
dustry Of northeastern Iowa.
The land owners of this section OF
the state are more interested in
dairying than in any other one thing,
and that which will promote the
dairy business will not alone benefit
the land owners, but everyone else
in every part Of. the country where
the dairy business is q leading in
dustry.
Mr.. Beels does not reason with
his usual clearness when he assumes
that the cooperative creamery, or
any other kind of creamery, has a
preempted right to the dairy bust
ness of this or any other section of
the country.
The cooperative plan is all right
in theory, but it must progress, it
must keep up with the times, or it
cannot survive.
Since Delaware county butter won
the gold medal at the Centennial in
Philadelphia in 1876, great changes
have taken place in the butter bust
ness in this county.
Twenty-Five years ago the farmers
wives as a rule were the county 8
butter makers, and every store Of
any consequence had its butter buy
er and its butter cellar. AS, far
back as the early seventies there
were few private creameries, with
their shotgun pals and their big
shallow pans. And then Clark &
Co, of Manchester, manufactured an
improved milk pan, or rather box
full of pans surrounded by water
which for time was very popular
The farmers used them and sold
their cream to the private creameries
and teamsters hadlong cream routcs
much the same as they have in some
places at the present time. Then
came the big power separator. and
it soon closed Clark 4 Co.'S factory
It was a decided improvement on al
previous methods of separating
cream from milk, but it was en-
tirely too large and too ex pensiye tt
operate, for any one farmers use
Under such conditions the farmers
edid the sensible thing. They or
ganized cooperative creameries CLOSE
enough together, to reduce as much
as possible the burden of hauling
the whole milk to the big separator
and the SKINNED .e;lLs back to thu
farm. Then came the small hant
separator at price within the react
Of everyone, and new condition
presented itself to the producers 0.
milk and cream.
Mr.. Beels calls this new condition
"the germ of discomfort" Well
that may be true, but the germ o
discomfort is not the worst thing il
the world. On the contrary, Their
are many of our best thinkers VIII
contend that discomfort is tn
worlds greatest benefactor. MIR
Beels himself is fair illustration O
the truth Of their contention. Fl
was3a competent and trusty maj
and could have retained his position
as foreman in the Offices of either til
Democrat or News in Manchester a
long as he wished. But the "gern
of discomfort" would not permit hin
to do SO. He wanted something bel
ter, he wanted a newspaper of hi
own and he got it, and still he wa
not satisfied. He wanted to make hi
newspaper better, and ever while h
is unsatisfied his patrons may be o
the lookout for some new improve
ment.
In this day and age no health,
business can remain stationary
Like everything in nature when
ceases to grow it reaches the be
ginning of its decline.
Three things must be CONSTANT
sought after in every manufacturin
establishment, namely:
How can the product be improved
How can the product be increased
How can the cost Oh production
reduced?
The creamery that excels in tbes
respects will make handsome pro-
it, over and above the profits Of til
ordinary creamery, and such profit
will not come out of the pockets {
the farmers as Mr.. Beels assert
The farmers are not knocking o
present conditions. Owing largel
to the competition between riv;
creameries they are getting splen
did prices for their milk and cream
The farmers are interested in mair
tanning present conditions as Ion
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