Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1913-11-08
PATRONAGE OF THE LOCAL
CREAMERY PROFITABLE.
United Effort for Your Home Con-
Germ Will Make You Money.

The first reason why you should
give your patronage toward your local
creamery is because it is yours; and.
if rightly managed, it is in position
to pay you more FOR your butterfat
than any other concern
But of these controlling plants you
say: The cream buyer OF the cen
tralizer is paying me more than ! can
get for it at the local creamery, and
he is not so particular as to the quail
ity. but takes it even if it is a little
sour and stale.
1t may be that he is paying more or
making up his statements to show as
if he was. but did you ever stop to
consider why he is doing it: and if he
is paying that same price all over the
State?
Probably if you investigate the
proposition you will find that it is
what we might call unfair competi-
ton that is responsible for your
prices Probably they are paying a
little more so as to draw few of the
patrons away from the local cream
cry. They are far sighted enough to
Sc, that lowering the volume OF bust
ness for TIE small creamery will in
crease the cost OF production to
point where they can easily meet our
competitors.
If you farmers are not fore-sighted
enough to see that, and desert your
creamery to get possibly a cent more
for your buttcrfat, ii will set the
creamery on. the downward pace.
weaken competition and finally de
stroy it.
Now. let us see what happens:
In am eastern State there was
creamery owned and operated by
private party, who. through hard la
Dor. was working uD prosperous lit
tie business. 4 centralizing plant put
in cream station and commenced to
buy cream. and paid about one cent
below New York special for butter
fat. and took the cream. no matter in
what shape il was. The farmer who
did not foresee the results had no
more use for the creamery, and ii
closed down. Soon after the cream
cry had closed the price dropped to
three cents below New York spec
ial. and there was always some short
age somewhere to be made up for.
Now. those people took their medi-
cine and waited TO get the creamery
started again The creamery was
started. and today the prices are back
10 where they were before. only that
the local creamery is paying one cent
more than the centraliZer and is get
ting the most OF the cream because
the farmers have learned the lesson
that il they all furnish The Local
creamery with good. sweet cream they
are going to get more for their but
terfat than any centralizing plant can
ever pay.
1t stands To reason that any local
creamery getting sweet. fresh cream,
directly from the farm. can make bet
ter butter and get better price for it
than the centralizer, which must have
il shipped for some distance. coming
TO the plant old, sour. and perhaps
stale
There is another matter of consid-
cradle importance that is often over
looked by the farmer who ships his
cream away from his local creamery
In every pound OF butter there is
some salt. moisture, and other ingre
dents besides the fat Altogether
this amounts 10 about Is per cent:
hence for every pound OF buttcrfat
you will get about one and one sixth
pounds OF butter, the onesixth con
stituting what we call ''overrun."
When you ship your cream the cen
trailer gets that; but when you take
it to your local Creamery YOU get it, |
because they pay you whatever ii
brings above the cost of production. |
Suppose you have herd OF fifteen
cows that are bringing you an aver |
age OF Us pounds of butterfat during
al tka, ,,,nl-ac , Ak bounds nt
butterfat: Is per cent of that equals |
l72 pound overrun, which will bring /
an average price OF about 80 cents per |
pound. or total of Sl4l.6O; add to /
that YOU will save in eXpressagc.
In concluding, we will state that /
the success Of your local creamery /
depends largely on your effort. Re
member that whether you patronizc |
creamery that is holding the price up /.
creamery that is holding the price up
where il is. and that the creamery /
cannot stand without your patron
age 1t is strictly up to you to de |
eide whether YOU want to fix your
price on your butter fat or have mo- /
noDoly do II.
AS farmers you are complaining !
about the great corporations taking
too much of your profits. This is es- .
pecially true it'll the grains, pork and |
other meats. 1t is not so with the /
butter because the price of hat com
modify is determined largely by its !
quality. and as long as you are capa- !
BILE OF keeping mp the quality and stick |
10 your own creamery you can Tx |
your own prices
A little incident occurs to the writ
cr's mind 1t will serve to illustrate |
inst exactly what is going on in this !
State today. and what has been tax |
ing place ia other States for years.
Last winter the writer attended a |
creamery meeting in one of the east
ern States, where the proposition of
building new creamery was discuss
ed Going home | had to wait at the |
train few minutes, and fell into con