Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1912-09-20
CREAMERY WAY
IS! RIGHT WAY.
co OPERATIVE INSTITUTION WILL
WIN OUT IF FARMERS
ARE LOYAL.
lBy q. L. Martin. }

"Don't ship your cream, farmer,
nor churn it at home in the belief that
1t will pay you better than taking it
to the creamery" says A. J. Mcclure
superintendent Minnesota substation.
is nothing that will pay you
better than the cooperative creamery
in your own neighborhood.
There are nearly thousand coop
erative creameries in Minnesota. Why
are there so many, if they are not the
best way for the farmer to manufac-
ture and sell his buffers Where the
first built creameries are becoming old
and worn out you will find the farm
ers building new ones, some of them
costing as high as ten thousand dol
lars. They build again because they
have paid, and farmer, your co-opera-
tive 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 farm
ers will take their cream there. Co.
operation means working together for
the good of all. A cooperative cream
cry cannot do its best when a NUMBER
of farmers are working against it, and
if you are not taking your cream there
you are against it.
"He who is -ot with me IS against
me.D
.. Unfair Competition.
Don't think the b,g company in the
city that wants you to ship cream
will pay you better. They may for
while in order to get you away from
the local creamery. The state has re.
Gently arrested the proprietors of
big city creamery for unfair competi-
ton. They were paying less thai
cream was worth to the farmers in
one community where here was no
creamery, and paying more than
cream was worth in another commu-
nifty where the farmers had cream
cry. They were stealing from one
farmer to fool another.
Don't think that you can make
more money by churning 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 competition with youa
Have you ever seen butter stacked up
in the. store and the merchant not
knowing what to do with it, You are
doing your best to bring about this
condition 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. They pay the
farmers all there is over the cost of
manufacturing. The officers are anx-
ious for the creamery to succeed and
ar generally doing their best. They
try to get the best buttermaker pos
sible. If you think anything is
wrong don It quit but notify the secre.
tary of the creamery. Mistakes are
apt to occur. You are just as apt to
make 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. 1t will help you in many ways
that you may not see now. Be good
soldier and get into the battle and
tight it out. Every cooperative cream
cry has had the same trouble on the
start and there would not be cream
cry in the state today if every man
quit when he thought something 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 fine thing for a
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 farm
ing such that I am glad to follow the
calling" There are young men who
say "Wcll, the old man killed mother
and drove us 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.
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