The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-02-19
CREAMERY MEET
| ING SATURDAY
GROWERS WILL DISCUSS PLANS
New Industry Creates Interest and Great
Benefits Seen from the lntrOduc-
tiOn Of More Cows

uI creamery IN HOOD RIVER, are urgeu 4
to attend a meeting at the Commercial |
club next Saturday at 1890. a. m. This
meeting has been called by S. A |
Mitchell, chairman of the committee |
on manufacturing, assisted by j. 2. |
Thomson, A. f. Bickford, Of Pine
Grove, ana C. f. Coffin. also Of Pine
Grove.
At the rate cows have been coming
into the valley during the past few
months and the talk heard on all sides
reg riding contemplated additions to
the Hood River herds, there IS every
prospect that the local creamery will
be success from the very start.
Already there is talk of establishing
automobile cream routes in various
parts of the valley.
Cooperative creameries in many diff
ferent parts of the country have shown
marked success. The citizens of June
tion City have made wonderful record
with their plant. The Trout Lake
creamery showed good return for last
year. Burnette E. Duncan, who was
in the Camas Prairie district of klicki-
itat county last week, reports that the
ranchcrs Of that district are making a
success of their creamery.
The herds of cows in the Hood River
valley have been increasing in carload
lots during the past few months. 1t is
believed by many that should plant
be installed here it will meet with
gratifying success.
Mr.. Bickford was particularly chosen
for place on the manufacturing com
mittee on account of his long expert
ence with dairying and creamery
affairs.
The two other prime movers in the
local creamery project are c. Il. Coffin,
of Pine Grove, and j. z. Thomson,
of the east 0dell district, both mem
bers of the Commercial club. 1t was
really Coffin who brought the local pro-
ject to focus and started the Com
mercal club committee into activity
resulting in the call for the meeting
next saturday. MIR. Thomson repre-
sented the club in making thorough
investigation recently of all the CO.
operative creameries in the Willamette
valley. Accompanied by Newton Sex
ton, of 0dell, he spent several days at
the junction City creamery, which he
states is the most successful cooper
ative creamery in the Pacific north
west. Through Mr.. Thomsen's efforts
Chris Myhre, manager of the Junction
City plant, will be present at Satur-
DAYS meeting aud assist in planning
the organization of the local project.
Mr.. Myhre is considered one of the best
posted creamery men in the business
and he is strong for a cooperative in
stitution.
In speaking on this point to Mr..
Ihomsen, MIR. Myhre said, Don't let
promoter put in your plant or you
will be sorry. The cooperative plant Is
the most satisfactory in every way.
When the farmers once understand II
they will always stay by it. And they
will furnish a much better quality OF
cream than if they were selling to
some individual or company. In the
cooperative creamery every farmer
gets all that belongs to him, and that
! is as much as anyone can ask for. Ht
is doing his own business in his owr
way for his own good and he will be
better satisfied than he would be ii
any other way"
"The Importance of this creamery t(
4 l1UOu hihGI CdIiIIUl DC
said Tr. Thomson upon returning iron
his tour of investigation. 1T vii
create steady flow of money here dur
ing twelve months of the year, will en-
able the farmers to pay their bill
J monthly and will bring a prosperity t
] US that we little dream about now
With the addition of cows, it means
great increase in the number Of hog
raised here, and between the two tn
4 fertilizer returned to the soil OF ou
orchards will more than pay the cos
] of the care and feed of the cows
i There are many farmers here VIII
/ have been adding cows recently an
! unless we afford them some immedlat
I and easy way of realizing on thei
= cream they are gong to become dis
{ couraged with their venture and ge
E rid of the cows. Other farmers haV
assured me that when creamery
Z started they will get cows,so am sur
/ we can make d success Of this frol
. the start. want to particularly urg
: every farmer who. is at all interests
! TO attend.this meeting on Saturday,
4 Ii. A. Graft, prominent East SID
i grower, has come out very emphatlcall
Z in favor of a local creamery. 1T
. the best thing that has yet bee
Q broached for the benefit of Hoe
! River" said MIR. Graf yesterday I
Z the Commercial club. 1T will mea
! that the cows will pay the running eI
! penses of our farms and when we hay
: poor year in apples, we will hay
Z something to fall back upon. ! hay
I three cows nowsthat pay US at the IA
! of over $50 per month, and the fertl
E izer added to my orchard last yei
3 increased my production of large slz'
I extra fancy apples over 80 per cent.
= have experimental with all kinds
I'll fertilizers and ! find that oarnya
Ill manure is the best thing can put I
HI my land. | was one of the instigato
III of the farmers cooperative butter ia
III tories in Wisconsin. They were n
HI called creameries in those days. Up
HI that time all the milk was hauled
HI the cheese factory. We were only pa
III rs cents per hundred pounds for mil
Hi aud we of the younger generation, wi
HI did all the work, came to the conclusi
Ill that we were not getting enough p
iii for the labet involved. A bunch OF
Hi got together and formed the first {
Hi operative butter factory in Visions
Hi From the start we doubled the pri
III per hundred pounds of milk, and h
HI all the milk left to feed to the hol
iii When the farmers here see what tn
iii cows will do for them. Though
II mediup of a local creamery ] am 81
II they will be thankful to the Comm
II cial club for starting this agitation.
Ill A. X. McLaren, of Oak Grove. "
Il has made the McLaren brand of but
a household word in Hood River,
III keen for a local creamery. 81 hi
five cows now and have been compel
. to make butter as the most convent
means of utilizing my cream. | ii
&c however, there is nothing in the
~ vste manufacture of butter. ]