The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-20

| 12,5OO,O2S pounds of milk paid an av-
erage of % cents for the year. The
average figures show wide range il
| the variation of the prices paid tt
farmers among these creameries ant
show difference in the bushes.
management.
1T must be taken into considera.
ton that in the operation of farmers
| cooperative creamerieS the hauling OF
| coal, supplies, drayage of butter to the
railroad depot is done by the farmers
themselves and for which no cash is
! expended, each man taking his turn
in doing this work. This results in q
saving, therefore, in actual cash out
lay.
ut will be seen from the above fig
| ures that there is very little differ
| ence between the prices paid for but
| ter fat. in hand separator cream in
the state of Minnesota as compared
with prices paid for butter fat in hand
! separator cream in Kansas, and in the
| final analysis wherein the expense OF
hauling whole milk is compared with
the expense of delivering hand separa-
tor cream to the station and the diff
ference in the value of the skim milk
is computed, Kansas farmers for their
labor, are actually receiving more
money per pound butter fat than the
farmers of Minnesota are receiving
under their system.
at will be observed that local
" q
on the business in its territory The
whole milk can not be transported,
that is shipped by rail, anywhere for
the purpose of making butter. Hand
separator cream can be shipped to
many markets as shown by the above
extract of Mr.. Whites evidence, and
this is one reason why the farmers
cooperative whole milk creameries
frown upon the introduction of the
hand separator.
The UnfairneSs of Whites Figures.
1T is not possible to know where
Mr. White obtained his figures print
ed in the Topeka Daily Capital of
November 14th, wherein he shows
that for the months of May June,
July and August the farmers of the
states of Minnesota. Iowa and Wis
consin received from four to five cents
per pound more for butter fat than
the farmers of Kansas. These figures
may be obtained under system such
as produced the figures purported to
show the same result in the cream
rate case before the interstate com
merce commission in Chicago wherein
prices from less than per cent OF
the cooperative and local creameries
of other kinds for the states of Min
nesota, Iowa and Wisconsin were
given In other words this report
showed the prices of 4 per cent of the
creameries necessary to handle the
entire product of these states and did
not represent an actual average at all
but purported to represent an aver
age which in testimony before the IN
terstate commerce commission showed
the prices paid by the very best most
successfully managed, and creameries
of largest receipts in these states. why
be so unfair as to pick out a lew OF
the very best creamer1eS and the
prices these creameries PAID ana COM
pare these prices with system OF
conducting creameries which system
results in giving every man within
reach of a railroad station market
for his hand separator cream? Sucn
reports only tend to show the blas ana
the prejudice of the agent of the dairy
division of the United states depart
ment of agriculture"
Whites Prejudice Shown.
Mr.. White is biased partisan of
the local creamery as SHOWN at the
interstate commission hearing:
Mr.. Mayer questioning Mr.. Whlte;
"You have recently written articles
have you not, on the subject of local
and centraliZers, condemn
ing the centralizers, have you not?''
Mr.. DIN: 81 object to that ques-
ton"
Commissioner Prouty: II think that
question is a proper one, but DO not
think it is a necessary one, because II
very clearly appears IN TINS case tnal
Mr.. White is partisan Oh Inc iai
creamery and believes in the local
creamery and does not believe in the
centrnlizer. He does not seem to
think the centralizer is any particular
uuse anywhere. ,.
Co Commissioner Prouty: 81 think
pretty near. Mr. White is partisan
of the local creamery (Record
pages 1925. 1860
.sThe CAPITAL article" says Mr.. Bor-
man ssrefers to a wide range OF prices
as paid here in Kansas by one OF tue
centralizers. 1t shows that the great
est difference in prices on the same
dav bv one of the centralizers IN an
a hound. meaning that the price IN
q o,p,,,atitive territories differed that
s.1,he competition in Kansas is be
tween a great many centrallzers; me
farmer receives the penents leor
Maid for butter fat at one point than
at some other point, or other points
# does not follow that at the other
POINTS q price of five cents per pound
less was paid than the butter TAT was
worth
"Comrnissioner Prouty of the inter-
state commission, in his opinion writ
Ten after the hearing of the cream
rota case stated that the centralizer
creamery system offered the most
romnetifive system under which the
creamery business can be CONDUCTED,
and further, to use Commissioners
own words, the centralizer
! lords to hundreds of thousands of
farmers the only satisfactory means
Of disposing of their milk. A blow
at the centralizer is a blow at every
farmer who produces butter fat in
thousands of square miles of the ter
ritory covered by this proceeding.
ssF,dwin H. Webster. chief of the
dairy division of the United States de-
partment of agriculture. testified that
since 1904. when the United States is