Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-26

CREAMERIES
HOW THEY ARE SUCCESSFULLY
MANAGED IN MINNESOTA.
TALENT BANKERS EXPERIENCE
f. B. AdamsOn, for Ten Years Treas
urer of Cooperative Creamery,
Talks to Tidings Representative
Mr.. AdamsOn an Enthusiast.


died is a matter that is much in the
minds of the people of Talent and
vicinity at the present time and a
representative of the Tidings, hear
ing E. B. Adamson, the cashier OF
the State Bank of Talent, say at the
recent Farmers Institute that he had
been for ten years the treasurer of a
cooperative creamery at Delavan
Mimi, sought him for an interview
as to the method of organization and
management of such an institution.
Mr.. Adamson is an enthusiast on
the subject of creameries and holds
that the financial salvation of the
Rogue River Valley lies in the di-
versification of her husbandry and
that the creamery and the dairy COW
will be two of the principal instru-
ments in working out this salvation.
How was the creamery of which
you were treasurer organized?" was
the first question asked Mr.. Adam
son. His reply was: "The first step
was to secure the requisite number
of cows, the output of which could
be depended upon for the creamery.
Next they organized a corporation
without capital stock, and borrowed
the money to erect the building and
install the machinery. A sinking
fund was created by holding out
cents from the proceeds of every 100
pounds of milk brought to the cream
cry Cat that time there were prac-
tically no hand separators in use)
which in a few years paid for the
plant as well as taking care of the
improvements and fixed charges. AT
the meeting of the corporation every
man who was supplying milk to the
creamery had one vote, and only one
regardless of the amount of milk
furnished or the number of COWS
owned"
by whom were the business af-
fairs of the creamery managed?"
BY the officers of the company, of
whom the secretary did the detail
work, he being the only paid, officer
of the corporation. The secretary
took the daily milk sheets as fur
nished by the butter maker, showing
the amount of milk furnished by the
patrons, and the test of each, and
computed the amount coming to each
from the returns received from the
sale of the butter after taking out
the current expenses and the cents
per hundred pounds for the sinking
fund"
How was the mechanical end han
dled?" "A competent butter maker
was secured and given complete say
as to all things in his department.
He hired and paid his own help and
1t was squarely up to him to produce
a top of the market product. The
butter maker had no trouble to get
good help at a nominal price as there
were always young men who wished
to learn the business of making but
ter"
Have you ever had any knowl-
edge of the success or non-success of
FARMERS creameries established on
the ordinary stock company plan?"
In the town where l was raised,
wells, Mimi, such a creamery was
1t started out in a flour
shing and apparently successful
manner, but as one after another of
he stockholders left the neighbor-
hood or for some other reason de.
sired to dispose of his stock it gradu-
lily got into the hands of three men,
Ind as result the aim of the cream
Try became to pay dividends rather
nan to pay high price for butter
at. Its business dwindled as the
armers became dissatisfied with the
rice received for butter fat and.
inally cooperative organization
vas formed by the farmers and the
BUSINESS of the stock company cream |
ry dwindled until it was finally pur-
hased by the cooperative organiza-
ION and is being thus run at the
resent time"
DO you consider it feasible to or
'anize a cooperative creamery in
'alent?" Most certainly 1 do. 1t
'ould, I think, be no trouble to bor-
ow the money to put up such a
reamery. 1t would probably be nee
ssary for a number of the farmers
Interested to sign joint notes for the
mount of money necessary to erect
he building, install the plant and to
AIRY the current expenses until the