Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1907-09-26
WILLIST0N MAY
HAVE CREAMERY
Representative of Creamery Company is in City and
is Well Pleased With Prospects for
Starting Creamery.

The prospects for creamery il
Williston are good. M. j. Haley
Agent for the Hastings industrial
Co. of Chicago is in town inter
viewing farmers and business mer
in the direction of starting a CO.
operative creamery here. This is
the system recommended by the
dairy commissioners of Minnesota
Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois
The dairy commissioner of Wis.
consin in his report for 1905 says
The past four or five years has
demonstrated the fact that the only
feasible, practical and successful
way of operating creamery is
on the cooperate plan, where the
business men and farmers of local
tiles organize for this purpose,
etc, etc. etc"
The Commissioner Of Agricul-
ture of Montana, Hon. j. A. Fer
ransom, a Wisconsin man, has
been for the past five years recon-
mending the same policy.
In statement issued by Com
missioner Fergerson on April 3,
1906 he says in referring to the
creamery business in Montana:
This is one of the most fertile
fields for cooperative effort that
I know of in the state and at the
same time it has been one of the
most neglected until the Hastings
Industrial Co., undertook their
aggressive campaign within the
the last two years. In my inves-
tigation of the creamery business,
am satisfied that in so far as it
has been put, in operation in
the various communities of the
state, on common sense, business
principals, that it is one of the
most profitable sources of income
that the farmers have. / am able
to show instances where COWS pay
for themselves in six months, clear
of all labor and keeping"
During the past three and one
half years the Hastings Industrial
Company promoted and built 81
creameries in different parts of the
state.
Mr.. Haley states that four of
these are turning out more than
400 pounds each daily and eight
more than 300 pounds daily,
and a number of the creameries
paid a dividend in 1906, and that
one of the stockholders of the
Townsend creamery, told him that
he was paid dividend of IA per
cent last year and that at the same
time the patrons received for their
butter fat exactly what the butter
sold for and that the 'overun"
(about 16 per cent? paid the ex-
penses and dividends. Townsend
is 20 miles east of Helena. 1t is
now turning out 700 pounds daily.
This creamery began operations
June So, 1904 with but IS cows.
1t has never been shut down day
and the butter, (Primose brandy
commands premium of two cents
per pound in Helena and Butte
above creamery butter, shipped in
from the east. Ex-State Senator
Whipple, Mr.. Whaley, the Presi-
dent of the campany and Manager
ocholes says that the success of
this creamery has enhanced the
value of farm lands within six and
seven miles of Townsend.
Townsend, however, is not the
banner creamery of Montana.
The one at Billings leads. It is
now making between 900 and
/, 900 pounds of butter daily. 1t
was the third one built in Montana
by the Hastings people and began
operations March l, 1905 with 130
COWS.
Mr.. l. D. O'Donnell, president
of the company in his report dated
December 81, 1905 published for
the benefit of the stockholders,
says: Total amount paid out for
milk and cream March l, 1905 to
Nov. /, 1905, $11,864.95. Re-
ceipts from sales, $14, ,642.65.'
According to Mr.. O'Donnell's
report for the six months ending
June 30, 1906 more butter was
made in January, February and
March 1906 than during any three
of 1905.
Mr.. Ed. Cardwell, stockholder
Of the Billings creamery also took
stock in the creamery built last
year at Columbus, 40 miles west