Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-07-12
THE , COOPERATIVE CREAMERY

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Don't ship your cream, farmer, Of
churn it at home in the belief that il
will pay you better than taking 1T 70.
the creamery. There is nothing that
will pay you better than. the Coop
erative creamery.
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 manu-
facture and sell his butter7 Where
the first built creameries are becoming
old and worn out, you will ind the
farmers building new ones, some OF
them costing as high as ten thousand
dollars. 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 farmers
will take their cream there. Coop
erative means working together Tor the
good of all. "A Cooperative creamery
cannot do it's best when number OF
farmers are working against 1t, 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
nay you better. They may for awhile 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
were paying less than cream was worth
to the farmers in one community
where there were no creamery, and pay
ing more than cream was worth in an
other 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 but
ter. When you do that, suppose all the
farmers would do the same. How much
would you get for your butter when
every other farmer would be in COM
petition with you9 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
back 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 OBJ
lection in cheating. They pay the farm
ers all there is over the cost of manu-
featuring. The officers are anxious for
the creamery to succeed and are gen.
orally doing their best. They try to get
the best butter maker possible. If you
think anything is wrong don't quit,
but notify the secretary Of the cream.
cry. 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 Of
fcers will correct 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 cream
cry has had the same trouble on the
start and there would not be cream
cry in the state today if every mar
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. Hundl eds Of
creameries will be built within tn,
ne6I Cen years IL CHe FARMERS WORK IO
gether in cooperation. If they don 7
their children will have to build tn
creameries, but it is fine thing for {
young man to look back and be abb,
to say my father helped to lay tn
corner stone Of this creamery H.
was leader in cooperation and made
farming such that I am glad to follow
his calling" There are young men VIII
say, "Well the sold man killed mothe
with work and drove US all off tn
farm as soon as we, could get away
He was bound to stick to his own wa,
of doing things"
The creamery is the right way o:
dairying.
A. J. Mcclure, superintendent, Crane
Rapids, MINI.