Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-06-13
NORTHERN
STANDING OF CLUBS.

western Association of Dairy Officials
II wish to thank your association for
it's invitations in asking me to dis
cuss such an important subject before
this meeting. The material | shall
present will be chiefly my owl exper-
fence gained by working with cooper
alive enterprises in a large number
of different states, and the ideas
have formed regarding such associa-
tons.
There are very few dairy districts
in the United States that have not,
at some time Or other, been interested
in operating or in organizing a CO.
operative creamery. The idea the
average small dairyman first posses is
that the cooperative creamery will
pay him considerable more for his
product than he has been able to get
Elsewhere. Almost every state In the
Union can furnish as an example OF
failure the wrecks of cooperative ef-
forts along this line. Now, these fail
ures are not all due to the same use
Nevertheless, regardless of the cause,
they stand as monuments to failure,
and as such thev should be useful as e
source of information.
! Briefly stated, the history of a ma
ton is merely the biography of it's
great men, and the history of an in
dustry is the life story of it's success
full men. Education plays a most in
lflucntial part in the changes which
take place in the methods of doing
business. The true way for a man
to be practical Is to take advantage
of his W knowledge and all the
knowledge of other men that he can
absorb. The time has come when the
truth about dairying can not easily be
covered up, nor that which is falsely
pretended. The growth of the dairy
industry demands that all dealngsi
must be based upon an honest under
standing between contracting parties.
Perhaps, you may know the real
facts, the things that caused the many
cooperative creameries to fail. Now,
i shall not attempt to assign a reason
why all those creameries are closed.
Instead l shall simply enumerate and
again repeat a few of the things that
are commonly known to cause cream
cries to fail. Among these are: This
lack of sufficient number of COWS to
furnish the desired amount of cream
poor organization; lack of proper CO.
operative spirit; poor management
and poor markets.
To any mind there is but one word
which e%xemplifies creamery success.
That one word is efficiency" Mod
ern philosophy teaches that nothing
is important that does not have a
work to do. If a creamery has a work
to do and exercises efficiency in doing
it, It fulfills its mission. Otherwise,
1t will in time give way to n that
is efficient. At the present time a
creamery may, possess the strongest
possible organization, but II it's man.
agement, through a feeling of conf.
dence, will lack vigilance and neglect
the. smallest details that creamy will
gradually fall below its high standard,
and perhaps fai. The finest machine
made will 60, wrong and perhaps stop
altogether II something gets into its
cogs; SC it is with the strongest
creameries-when the cogs are block
ed trouble ensues. #
We know that many farmers aregfol-
lowing improved methods Of cultiva-
ton in order that they may receive
larger crops; they are feeding their
cows more and better feeds, and hous-
ing them more comfortably so that
they will produce a greater quantity
of milk. They know that by feeding
their own crops to the dairy o they
can retail their grain and hay, in the