The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-10-04
The Cooperative
Creamery The Best
A Financially Successful Venture
That all farmers Should Be
Willing to Make

Ion I snip youI Cicd1AA, IoAAASA' VI
churn it at horne in the belief that it
will pay you better than taking it to
the creamery. There is nothing that
will, pay you better than the co-opera-
tive creamery in your own neighbor-
hood.
There are nearly a thousand co-opera-
tive creameri,s in Minnesota. Why are
there so many, if they are not the best
way for the farmer to manufacture and
sell his butter? When the first built
creameries are becoming old and worn
out, you viii! find the farmers building
new ones, some of them costing as high
as $4,000.
A creamery can succeed where there
are 400 or more cows, if all the farmers
will take their cream there. Co-opera-
ton means working together for the
good OF all. A cooperative creamery
cannot do It's best when number of
farmers are working against it, and, if
you are not taking your cream there,
you are ag ainst 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 ar
rested the proprietors Of big city
creamery for unfair competition. They
We're paying less than cream was worth
to the Farmers in one community where
there was no creamery, and paying
more than cream was worth in another
community where the farmers had a
creamery.
by chl-ning at home and selling the
butter. When you do that, suppose all
the farmers would do the same. How
much could you get for your butter
when every other farmer would be in
corapc sition with you?
Den t think the cooperative creamery
is cheating you. They have no object
in cheating. They pay the farmers all
there is over the cost of manufacturing.
The officers are anxious for the cream
cry to succeed and are generally doing
their best. They pay to get the best
buttcrmaker possible. If you think
anything is wrong. don't quit, but
notify the secretary of the creamery.
Mist axes are apt to occur. You are
jusaa as apt to make a mistake in your
figu.ing as the creamery is. If the
creamery has made mistake, the Of
ficars will correct it.
A successful cooperative creamery
vii, increase the valuation in many
ways that you may not see now. Be a
good soldier and get into the battle and
fight it out. Every cooperative cream
cry 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 something was wrong.
Hundreds of creameries will be built
within the next ten years if the farm
ers work together in cooperation. If
they don't their children will have to
build the creameries, but it is fine
thing for the young man to look back
and be able to say, "My father helped
!, to lay the cornerstone of this creamery;
he was leader in cooperation and
made farming such that / 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
ofsdoing things Elk.