Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1914-02-04
THE COOPERATIVE CREAMERY

:
In listening to the reports submit
ted by Treasurer G. r. Gillespie and
Buttermaker n. n Larson at the
meeting of the stockholders of the
Stephen Cooperative Creamery held
Saturday afternoon at the High
School assembly room. one could not
help but wonder if those directly in
terested in the institution really ap-
preciated to its full extent the value
of the creamery. In the light of the
report of the treasurer we could not
help but conclude that they did not
We quote the figures as submitted by
the treasurer for the year ending on
January .1st, 1914, without going into
detail as was done in his report:
Total receipts SID. 765. 80
Paid to patrons ----.-.-.-... 12,64OO0
Expenses. of operation, new
apparatus and new well. 2.716.64
Estimated value Of the
creamery property ...--...... 1000 90
Indebtedness ...--......... 900 90
In the fact of a total volume of bus
mess for the year of nearly $4,000.
there is no dividend for the stockholm
ers. but they are paying out 8 per
cent interest on an Indebtedness that
equals the value Of the property.
Comment as to this, would, Of course,
be out of place. We just submit the.
fact as it appeared from the report.
In the light of the report of Butter
maker Larson however, we could see
the wonderful advantage the cream
cry must be. His report. showed that
in the, year 1913 there was received
at the creamery 197,137 pounds of
cream, as against 131,858 pounds in
1912, and that the average price paid
for butteTfat in 1913 was 29c, as COM
pared with Csc for 1912. In other
words a first class home market has
been provided that is equal to the
best What this means to those in
terested in dairy farming was we'll il
Illustrated by four statements of indi-
vidual herds given by Mr. Larson. We
quote from his report:
Chris Paulson's Herd.
II cows, valued at $50 each, $3.50.
Butterfat sold s.................... .S626.27
Value of milk fed to 5 calves
at $l2 each ......-......-...... 5000
Value of milk fed to 10 pigs,
at $15 each ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000
Toll income ....-.......--..--.. $836.37
Cost of feeding cows estimat-
ed at $25 each ... 275.OO|
Net profit from sales ............ 1851 .27
Consumed at home .-.-. 10000
Leaving a net profit on invest
ment of 100 per cent or 49,. 1861 OF
S. P. Jenson's Herd.
IS COWS. valued at $50 each, 100000
Total sales of cream .... .S9OS. 90
Value OF milk fed to pigs, at
SIS .....-.............. 5000
Value of milk fed to 10 calves
at $12 1900
Total income -....-................1 ,l1S.0O
Cost of feeding cows ................ 1880
Net profits from sales a........ 1890
Consumed by family s.......,........... 20. 90
1905 per cent profit on invest
ment, or total of ............ S943. 90
Martin Jenson's Herd.
II COWS valued at $50 each, $4,000
Milk and butterfat sold ........ $917.25
Calves raised and sold -...-......... 1900
Value of milk and butterfat
consumed by family .. 5767
Total income ........... Isl ,04792
Cost Of feeding estimated at
$2s each Observation-Disclosures. 10000
1908 per cent profit on invest
ment, or total OF STAG 90
Milk and butterfat con-
summed by family ....s57.67
$50 lbs. creamery but
ter consumed by ia
mily ..-.............11 lab s171,SO
S. J. Grandstrand's Herd.
II COWS valued at $50 each, $500
Sold to creamery in cream $3.50 90
Raised Z calves on milk at $12
each $500,
Total income ..-.....................-.. 544.O0
Cost Of feeding cows at $25
eacn W5.OO
10000
Estimated amount consumed
by family Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
80 per cent profit on invest
ment, or total OF $4,000
OF course the value of the milk fed
to calves and pigs is estimated, but
would appear a very conservative es-
inmate. The amount of cream estimat-
ed as used in the different homes is
also conservative. In the case of
fine Martin rQns0n Sfafomont tho fiu