The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-04-16


first place you will have to pay big
prices for blooded COWS, and in the
second, they require too much care.
The average farmer has not the time
at his disposal to care for thorough.
bred COWS. But you can build ur
your own herd; that is, you can put a
good dairy sire at it's head, and this
will pay you.
Now, as to the centralizing con.
Germs, they pay more for butterfat
only when they have competition.
Where this competition does not exist
they pay only what they feel inclined,
and their inclination does not natural
ly run toward high prices. None OF
these individual concerns can, how
ever, compete with a good cooper
alive creamery and the statistics show
that in 1906 the average price paid for
butterfat by the cooperative cream
cries of Minnesota was q cents while
the centralizers paid but "a cents.
This is certainly an important show
ing. If you make close observation
you will find that Immediately local
creamery shuts down the centralizers
reduce their price to whatsoever they
see fit. Stick to your cooperative
creamery and you will meet with sue
cess. In cooperative creameries the
farmers get the whole of the profit
whereas if you sell to the centralizers
they get the lions share of it. You
must take into consideration that when
you sell to centralizers you have to
pay the freight, and then there is the
loss in butterfat, to say nothing of
buttermilk, upon which you can fatten
your hogs. In the past it has been
customary to ship the rottenest kind
OF cream to the centralizers, and if
you had seen some of the filth which
has come under my notice while in
speeding these plants you would likely
swear off eating any more butter. I
have seen in St. Paul cream which was
so rotten that it contained maggots
half an inch long. At this time, how
ever, it is not so safe to ship such
stuff, as many have been fined upon
complaint of the state dairy and food
commission.
Cleanliness is matter which I wish
to call your attention to. In the first
place, keep your COW stables clean.
Give your COWS straw for beds instead
of burning it. This straw will absorb
all liquid manure and it then becomes
valuable asset for fertilizing. When
milking keep your hands clean and
also keep your cream separators clean.
Dirty cream invariably lowers the
test. The slime which will accumulate
inside separator if neglected is poi
sonous and it is impossible to make
good butter from the cream which
runs through a machine which is per-
mitted to get into this condition.
Wash your separators frequently, and
take good care of your milk by plac-
ing it in cold cater. The immersion
of the vessels containing the milk in
cold water is the best known way of
keeping it.
Mr.. Fox of the West Branch cream
cry said that that concern was in a
hourishing condition and that the
farmers we're we'll satisfied with the
profits. He said that the creamery
paid within a few cents of the New
York quotations. Mr.. Fox was posi-
tive that the farmers would never re-
greet establishing creamery in
Princeton.
Mr.. Taylor of Wyanett said that
when he went to Martin county seven
years ago the farmers raised scarcely
anything but grain and you could
then buy good farm for $40 per acre.
The introduction of cooperative
creameries has made the land there
now worth $50 an acre-it has doubled
in value, and there is not farmer in
that part of the country who is not
prosperous.
Mr.. Dybevick here explained the
difference between the cooperative
and individual creamery. He said
t hat in the cooperative the farmer
received the full profits from their
products because they manufactured
their own butter and marketed it,
whereas when they sold to the GEN.
tralizers share-invariably the
biggest part-of the profit goes to
these concerns, for it stands to reason
that they are not going to handle the
cream, convert it into butter and
market it for nothing.
Stockholders in the cooperative
creamery should, said Mr.. Dybevick,
receive dividend on the money which
they invest. This can be arranged
through the establishment of a small