Semi-weekly herald., 1909-08-05
NEBRASKA BECOMING
GREAT BUTTER STATE


NEBRASKA BECOMING
GREAT BUTTER STATE
(By William E Curtis, Correspondent
Chicago Record -Herald.)
LONG PINE, Neb.. July 25.-Ne-
braska is gradually becoming grent
butter state and produced $4,000
pounds last year. Wisconsin, Iowa
and Minnesota are greater producers
and send 100000.000 pounds each, TO
the market. New York. which was
formerly the banner butter state. has
dropped down several files. not be,
cause her dairymen make any less
than formerly, but because those OF
the western states make so much
more. There are fifteen great cream.
cries in Nebraska, owned by ten In.
dependent companies. One of th,m
H. cooperative affair and the stocL
is held by the farmers, who furnish
i the cream to run it. Seven OF the
creameries are in Omaha, two at Lin.
coin, one at Beatrice, one al Crete.
and the largest plant In the sta.e,
capable of producing $4,000 pounds II
butter day. was opened at Grand
Island June 1.
The Omaha oreamerIes Dreduce
from 10000 to 10000 pounds of hus,or
a day the year around and are ncreas
Ing their product az fast as they can
get additional crem In 1908 tn sir out.
put ws 100000 pounds, valued at
s1,4S0,000; while in 1907 1t was II .o01.-
600 pounds.
The largest company the state has
gets its cream from 400 different sta.
tions, from 22,000 different farms-9.-
900 In Nebraska and the rest In Iowa
Missouri, South Dakota and Kansas
Some of the cream is shipped 700
miles. The farmers who furnish this
| supply have an average OF only eight
cows each, but are Increasing them
every year because they find the but
l
than any other kind of farming.
This Is naturally a corn and hog
| country" said Mr.. Rushton, the man.
aeer of one of the creamerles. "and
until recently, has been almost entire
iy given up to cattle. The dairy In
dustry is in Its infancy. but is Incrcas.
ing with the strides of giant because
| the farmers are learning that they
can keep a bunch OF cows and hogs
without practically any increase of la
| Dor and large Increase In income"
Nebraska butter is shipped all over
| the United States, but very little is ex-
ported to foreign countries For the
| export trade butter has TO be put up
With special care, and there are cream.
cries In Iowa which make specially
of 1t. There is an establishment at
Monticello, In that ctate. which does
| nothing but put butter up In Tin cans
| for sale In the tropics. II c0mpetes
which had monopoly on the tropical
trade until the Monticello people en-
| tered the field. Danish butter Is man.
ufactured with such care that Il Will
keep longer than any other and pre-
serve its sweetness In any climate
The contents of tin win melt and
harden again and again several times
without injury. But II requires a
great deal of care and labor to make
butter for the tropics. and most of
the American manufacturers think 1t
does not pay.
| The dairy business In Nebraska Is
conducted quite differently from that
In other states. Formerly the farm
er's wife skinned and churned her
milk by hand at home and traded 1t
at the country store for sugar coffee,
tea or dry goods at the rate OF II or
l5 cents pound. Next came the
neighborhood dairy, where the milk
was hauled every morning and every
night, set" In large pans, skinned by
hand and churned by machinery, while
the skinned milk was fed to penful
of hogs or calves In the back yard.
These neighborhood creamerjes were
usually cooperative, and each con.
tributor received credit on the books
for the amount of milk he delivered
daily. They have been very much i'm.
proved by the invention OF the "gepa.
rator." which, by the turning of a
crank, will extract the butter fat from
the milk in very few minutes. In
Illinois, Wisconsin and in the older
states farmers usually bring In their
milk by wagon twice a day, pass II
through the separator, receive credit
for the butter rat and haul the skim
med milk In the same can back Ia
the farm TO feed their calves and hogs
There Is settlement every month
for the cream delivered.
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