The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-07-24
THE COOPERATIVE CREAMERY,

THE COOPERATIVE CREAMERY.
Don't ship your cream, farmer, or
churn it at home in the belief that it
will pay your better than taking it to
the creamery. There is nothing that
will pay you better than the coop
erative creamery in your neighbour
hood.
There are nearly a thousand CO.
operative creameries in Minnesota.
Why are there so many, if they are
not the best way for the farmer to
manufacture and sell his butter?
Where the first built creameries are
becoming old and worn out, you will
fund the farmers building new ones,
some of them costing as high as
$4,000. They build again because
they have paid, and farmer, your CO.
operative creamery will pay, too, if
every farmer does the square thing
by it.
A creamery can succeed where
there are 400 Or more COWS, if all
the farmers will take their cream
there. Cooperation means working
together for the good of all. A CO.
operative creamery cannot do it's best
when a number of farmers are work
ing against it, and if you are not
taking your cream there you are
against it. "He who is not with me
is against me-"
Don't think the big company in
the city that wants you to ship
cream will pay you better. They
may for a while in order to get you
away from the local creamery. The
state has recently arrested the pro-
p%rietors of a big creamery for IN
fair competition. They were paying
less than cream vas worth to the far
mers in n community where there
was no creamery, and paying more
than cream was worth in another
community where the farmers had a
creamery. They were stealing from
one farmer to fool another.
Don't think you can make more by
churning at home and selling the
butter. When you do that, suppose
all farmers would do the same. How
much could you get for your butter
when every other farmer would be
in competition with you? Have you
ever seen butter stacked up in the
store and the merchant not know
ing what to do with it? You are do
ing your best to bring back this con-
dition when you pull away from the
creamery and churn at home.
Don't think the cooperative cream
cry is cheating you. They have no
object in cheating. The officers are
anxious for the creamery to succeed
and are generally doing their best.
They try to get the best butter max
er possible. If you think anything is
wrong don't quit, but notify the Sec
rotary of the creamery. Mistakes are
apt to occur. You are just as apt TO
make a mistake in your figuring as
the creamery is. If the creamery has
made a mistake the officers will cor
rect it.
A successful cooperative creamery
will increase the valuation of your
farm. It will help you in many ways
that you may not see now. Be a good
soldier and get into the battle and
fight it out. Every cooperative
creamery has had the same trouble on
the start and there would not be a
creamery in the state today if every
man quit when he thought some
thing was wrong. Help to make
things right.
The timbered section of Northern
Minnesota will be the greatest dairy
section of Minnesota. Hundreds of
creameries will be built within the
next ten years if the farmers work
together in cooperation. If they
don't their children will have to
build the creameries, but it is a fine
thing for a young man to look back
and be able to say, "My father help
ed to lay the corner stone of this
creamery. He was a leader in CO.
operation and made farming such
that I am glad to follow his calling
There are young men who say, well,
the old man killed mother with work
and drove us all off the farm as soon
as we could get away. He was bound
to stick to his own way of doing
things"
The creamery is the right way of
dairying
A. J. MCGUIRE,