Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-02-23

this industry, has enacted laws for
the special promotion of cooperative
creameries. To show the extent to
which the Canadian government has
gone in this matter I will give you
a short outline of the laws in the
Province of Saskatchewan. Loans are
provided for from governmental funds
not to exceed at any time $4,000.
The requirements for obtaining this
loan are that there are seasonable
prospects of the business being
financial success, and they require
for this a guarantee of not less than
400 cows for a period of three years;
that the location Of the creamery is
such as to prevent encroachment up
on the business of an established
creamery; that the loan shall be SUI
ficient to establish a creamery with
a capacity to handle the milk or cream
from not less than 400 cows; that
the location shall be approved by the
Superintendent Of Dairying particuI
larly as to drainage and an abundant
supply of pure water; that the plans
and specifications be in accordance
with those supplied by the depart.
ment; no loans allowed to a company
that is not at least twenty miles from
any other creamery with a quarify-
ing enactment in special cases where
the Minister may make an exception.)
The Minister also has power to
diminish or extend tie limits of the
territory in which the company does
business and to say that the company
shall not do any business outside of
its prescribed territory. This is an
illustration of how the Canadian
Government has settled this question.
after due and deliberate consideration
as to what is for the upbuilding of
the creamery industry. The superb
GRITTY Of this method, however, is so
well established that it is unneces.
sary to give any further argument. for
anyone WITH a real desire to find the
best methods will, after looking over
the situation, come to the same con-
Not an Easy Proposition
The establishment of this system
Of manufacturing butter is not always
easy, but the same thing applies here
as in many other things. we do not
get anything without working for it,
and state that wants the best sys-
tenn developed must remember this
fact and put forth the energy required
in order to build up the dairy indus.
try. This en- :rgy ds needed not only
in the enactment of laws along the
lines above referred to, though these
form an important part in develop
ment and require the efforts of those
but each community desir.
ing such CO. operative creamery
must put forth certain amount Of
energy before this advantageous con-
dition can be obtained. This has
been the history of each creamery
in the state of Minnesota,
and will be the history Of any futural
not only in this state but
in every state. The development Of
the early creameries showed a presis-
tency and a sacrifice of time and
labor much greater than has to be
exerted at the present time. The
Of the creamery at
Clarke Grove, in Freedom county. one
Of the first in Minnesota, shows that |
the farmers engaged in its promotion
and organization had to implant in
the minds of the men interested the
of such an undertaking,
from theoretical founda-
zion, and they had to send representa-
lives to other sections of the country
to investigate methods employed in
the manufacture of butter in order to
get a foundation for their own pro-
ceedings. The cooperative creamery
at Biscay, Mcleod county,
! few months earlier than the Clarks
Grove creamery, neither knowing Of
the other, had to 60 through the same
hardships. Here it depended upon
one man to do all the work, and he
spent three years in getting the plant
organized.
From this early start development
has gone on in Minnesota until the
creameries in the state
number many hundreds. Although
ZONE of the earlier difficulties have
been eliminated, stin this fact re-
mains, and will always remain, that
The establishment Of q cooperative
creamery requires work and long ap-
plication by the live men of a CON-
nunity, who are anxious to improve
heir own conditions and those Of
heir neighbors. The state can do