Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-04

AAN Va = ~
1908, 23.17 cents . pound.
Increase of Omaha creamery business
since 1900, 3le per cent.
In 1900 the creamer butter produced in
Nebraska aggregated 11,OOO,OOO pounds, with
a value of 100000.
In 1908 the production of creamery butter
in tho state amounted to 100000 pounds,
with a value Of $4,000 GOO.
]. II. Rushton makes the estimated total
value of the milk and cream sold from the
farms Of Nebraska in 1908 between SIS, OO0,-
900 and $40. 900, 600. This represents cash rev.
enue of greater or less volume to a very
large proportion of the farmers Of this
state, and to a great many more in the
states Immediately adjacent.
There are seven centralized In
Omaha. and during the year 1908 they
manufactured 100000 pounds Of butter,
with "A market value of A.5OO. 900.
Figured down to a going basis. the in
vestment represented by the seven Omaha
butter factories easily tops 100000.
The average price paid for butter fat in
Nebraska during 1907 was 2s.9 cents a
pound, being 4OS cents less than the New
York price. During 1905 the average price
paid in Nebraska was 2.17 cents a pound,
being but 3.s1 cents less than the average
New York price.
IL growth denotes health, the creamery
industry in this state, and the underlying
business of dairying, has been enjoying
health of high degree since 1900, for its
growth in the period ending with last year
has amounted to s1s per cent. If the same
ratio is continued for the next ten years
the creamery output of the state will
amount to 100, 900. 600 pounds annually, with
an approximate value of $25. 100000.
Butter Fat IL Ready Money.
Butter fat. the basis of the creamery
industry as an integral factor of the COM
mercial world, Is cash. This means that,
while the farmer turns his crop but once
In a year, the butter fat producer turns
his output from twenty-four to fifty times
agar lie gets in nn the compound inter-
est table with both feet, a tremendous
consideration from the dollars and cents
standpoint.
Laying aside for the moment the fer
tiity of the soil that is conserved by dairy
ing, take the skim milk item. This by
product of buttermaking is worth 80 cents
a hundred at a fair valuation. On the
basis Of present production. the skim milk
represents a value of s.. 10000 for feeding
to the calves and pigs, the tribe of which
is very numerous In Nebraska.
The creamery industry in this state Is
necessarily done on a thin margin of profit.
Competition is keen. and only the vast
volume Of business transacted makes II
possible for the creameries Of Omaha tc
maintain the position they have attained
as makers of the very highest grade OF
40. IY..uvA 10 tla IHHttnl Otnfng Thts
p~re-eminent holding of quality. year In ant
year out, commands a price, based on de-
mend, which enables the financiers of tn,
fawn-eyed COW to stick consistently to tho
thin margin spoken of above. Here Il
the elemental secret of their great success
]. II. Rushton, president of the Fairmon
Creamery company, Is a nestor of the clai
of dairy COW men, and he is. further, al
encyclopedia of the vital things that arr
tangled up with this business of f~ar-fluni
qualifications. He says:
Cow as Revenue
''There are seven sources OF revenue from
the COW. First, the butter fat; second, tn
whole milk that feeds the calf for a Ger
tain time after birth; third, the butter mad
for family use; fourth, the calf; fifth, tn
skim milk for calves and pigs; sixth, tn
manurial element, liquid and solid, thou
sands OF pounds; seventh. the value 70
beef after her day Of usefulness as a mike
is done"
And Mr.. Rushton asks, with eyes reflect
ing a fine conviction. What other GRO
under the sun compares with the COY
crop?" There is none, OF course.
Back OF the figures quoted above, an
back of Rushton's seven separate element
of profit, We have to keep in mind all tn
local household uses TO which dairy prod
ucts are put on the 1885, 900 or more farm
Of this state. The COW is. for instance. tn
great seconder Of the Kinkaid act. I
the so-called sand hIn' country. after Il
settler has moved onto his mile-squaI
farm, his first resource as a cash producs
is his cows, so much so that Il is now II
rule for the Kinkaiders TO provide then
selves with cows as certainly as wit
horses. steers. even. are a secondary cor
alteration with the wise beginner on Il
section homesteads. A mixer is read
money any hour OF the day when h
product is taken to town. and she carrie
many a family with flying eolors throus
the first toilsome years.
The battalions OF cans ranged on u
milk platforms OF the big stations here
Omaha are but representative Of Il
smaller companies and regiments OF car
that are assembled every day on COUNT
station platforms. During 1907 there WI
received at the Union depot in Omaha ov
10000 cans OF cream. and during 1913 the
came into the same station over 4oo'oo ca
AZ butter material Many thousands mo