Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-01-20
LARNED CREAMERY CLOSES.
Has Quit Churning Bat viii Continue
to Handle Cream, Poultry, Etc.

Inc Larned plant Of the Merritt
schwier Creamery Co. quit ochilrnins
and the manufacture Of butter the first
of the week and in the future the
cream received at the plant will be
shipped either to the Great Bend plant
Oh the company oor to the new plant
which it has just taken over AZ Colo
RADIO Springs, Colo. The Larned sta
ton will continue to buy cream. poul-
try, eggs, etc, the same as In the uast
and the company has assured its par
rons that they will get the same SER
vice in the future, and will receive the
same prices for their cream and mo-
duce, as though the Larned plant were
still in operation. The company re-
Gently issued a circular letter to its
patrons informing them of the change
TO be made, and assigning the extreme
shortage of cream in this section of
the country as the reason for discon-
tinuing churning at this point.
VIM. Schwier, who has had charge
OF the business here for the past 1s
years, will leave next Sunday evening
Tor Colorado Springs, where the Mer-
ritt-Sehwier company recently become
interested in the plant of the Colo
rado Springs Creamery Company. Mr.
SchweiF will in the future look, after
the company's interests in the west
ern part Of its territory, and expects
TO make Colorado Springs the future
nome OF himself and family. His fam
lily will remain here for the present
but expect to move in the spring. Mr.
Schwier and his family have MANY
friends here, who will deeply regret
the necessity of their departure. Dur
ing his residence here Mr.. Schwier
mas built up the Larned creamery
from almost nothing until now II Is
part of one of the biggest institutions
OF its kind in the state, and one which
is constantly reaching out for larger
territory. 4
The Larned creamery was at cs
time one of the most important insti-
tutions in the community, in the days
when butter and eggs were the real
source of income for those who farmed
But in these later years of prosperity.
as the annual wheat yield of the coun-
~ multiplied in millions, the attention
pald to the faithful old milch COW and
the helpful hen has steadily decreased
until finally the Offering of cream at
lne creamery from this immediate ter
rltory has decreased to such an extent
'nat the company finds it to their ad-
vantage, with their increased cana ity
at Great Bend, to handle their entire
business at that point.
The companys principal distribut- I
ing market for its butter and produce
is in Colorado and other points west
and it will now have the advantage Of
plant located in the center of that
section, and the cost of TRANSPORTING
cream to the western plant will he
out little if any greater than it has
heretofore cost to ship the finished
product butter, to the same central
distributing point.
The closing of the churning depart
ment of the Larned plant will in no
way affect this point as a market for
cream and produce, and the incident
is chiefly important as proving that
this section of the country has perm-
anently passed from the days when
small industries like milking cows and
gathering eggs were necessary to the
welfare of the country. But the day
OF the COW is not yet passed. and the
Time is coming soon when she will
again come into her own; not, how
ever, as an incidental side-issue 70
Wheat-raising, but as the backbone
and main stock in trade Of the dairy
Industry, for which this section Of
the country is most of all especially
adapted. Founded on alfalfa. the dairy
industry Of this, which is now the
Great Kansas Wheat Belt, is destined
at no far-distant day to become one
Of the greatest, both in size and i'm
portance, in this hemisphere, Just as
certain sections Of the Old Country
nave reached the same destiny
through natural facilities and stress
OF congested population.-Larned TIL
Ter and Toiler. I