The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-06-14
CREAMERY PROMOTERS.

Some months ago State Dairy Com
missioner Flint found 1t necessary to
go after the creamery promotion sharks
who were operating in this state. An
other crowd is reported to be making
an effort to swindle the people this
summer. While creameries are greatly
desired-to be a permanent success
they must be established along the
proper lines and swindling promoters
do the great industry more harm than
good. At the time of Commissioner
Flint's former crusade against the
sharks The Chicago Dairy Produce had
the following article-which is equally
applicable at this time:
Assistant State Dairy Commissioner
Flint OF North Dakota has issued a
warning to the farmers of that state
against doing business with creamery
promoters, more properly called sharks
II would seem that as much as the plan
Of operation of these people has been
exposed during the past, that q warn
ing of this kind would hardly be neces-
sary, but it goes to verify the truth
Of the old saying, that there is a
sucker born every minute" and in the
case with these people during the past
would indicate that a majority of these
suckers might be farmers.
The farmers and the operative
creamery graft has been a fertile field
for those designing and unscrupulous
spectators, who have been out for the
money and who haven't cared how they
got it.
The needs of a community has never
been consulted by them, whether a
creamery could run and be successful
never was taken into consideration. 1t
was to get the money honestly If they
could but get the money.
The injury that these people have
done the dairy industry during the
past cannot be computed. Not alone
during the past has this injury been
done but many communities throughout
the entire country are still paying big
price for their folly in the closed UP
dilaptdated creameries that stand as a
constant reminder to them of their
failure in dairying
There Is no kind of an argument that
can convince these people that the CO.
operative creamery system is not a
failure. The centralizing creameries
point to these creameries that never
should have been built, that never
from the start had a show for an ex-
istence as evidence of the inability OF
the farmers to successfully conduct a
creamery enterprise.
L.
OF wrecks in their wake. Large sums
Of money have been tied up and no
returns ever received from 1t. Com
munities have been disrupted and in
surance companies looted and society
in general disorganized because of the
failure of these plants.
The evils attending the work of
these people has been so great that the
dairy department at washington took
the matter UP and issued a bulletin
warning the farmers and telling them
just what creamery should be, how
constructed and the cost. Wherever
this information has reached there is
but little chance for the farmers to be
taken in.
Commissioner Flint's work along this
line is to be commended and his warn
ing should be given the widest pub
licity. North Dakota nor any other
state can AFFORD to have it's dairy in
dustry killed by a lot Of these unprin-
cipled grafters who are out for the
farmers money. This must not be
taken to mean that all creamery pro-
moters are OF this kind, there are some
whom the farmers could do no better
than to place themselves in their
hands. but they will not advise the
building of a creamery in a locality
where it has no show Of being sue
cess, nor win they be asking an ex-
orbftant price for 1t either and they
VIII give value received for every dollar
they are asking.