The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1915-08-27
BUTTER. MAN
IS ON THE JOB

~ Wv I'LL VO0
Mr.. H. R. Van Auken of the
Service Department of the Hastings
Industrial Company was in Kendrick
this week and was interviewed by
the Gazette.
came here to meet Mr.. T. F.
Gibbons the new buttermaker, in
troduce him and assist in lining up
the Creamery business here. He is
Cornell man and a very practical
buttermaker. You people could
not get better buttermaker than
Mr.. Gibbons. He knows the prob
lens of dairying from the grounds
up and his advice on dairy matters
is invaluable.
You have a. wonderful country
here. Seldom do you see it's equal.
My opinion is, however, that you
need the dairy method of farming
to keep it up. The continual drain
ing of the farms by selling off every
thing raised is already in evidence.
For ton of wheat you get $25. to
$50. but you take out of your land SIS
worth of soil fertility. For a ton
of butter fat you get $500 and take
out one-half dollars worth of soil
fertility.
You can not keep up constant
draining of the land without some
day paying the fiddler" and dairy
ing not only brings in, n ore money
than any other method of general
farming, but keeps up the farm to
it's formal state of fertility.
The Cooperative Creamery such as
you have here has done much for
the farmer. 1t is the power which
carved from the forests of Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Michigan the wonder
full farms Of those states. 1t is the
alchemist' hand which, by it's touch
has turned the worn out lands Of
New York into healty productive
pastures. 1t is the savin of Iowa,
whose lands were impoverished by
continual cropping and set farmers
to singing song which ends with;
Mothers quit her washing
So has sister Ann,
Everybody's gone to milking,
Even my old man."
The Cooperative Creamery gets
at the business of farming in two
ways.
First, it brings the farmer the
most money and brings it regularly,
: and keeps up his land at the same
time. So much is known of the pros
perity of the dairy districts that
, discussion is unnecessary.
) Second, it always pays him fair
) price for all his products.
/ l want to say something about
, this. Last March the Dairy Com
, mission of North Dakota told me in
his Office at Bismark that he knew
that the Centralizers had sent word
to their various Cream stations to
cut the test of cream not less than
, two per cent.
, Last spring in Rocky Ford Colo
, RADIO, where there is successful
Farmers Creamery, a Centralizer
boosted the price cents per pound
for butter-fat. Some farmers fell
, for it. We shipped can of nine
: teen pounds of cream of 81 per cent
. test under a farmers name. They
, paid cents more per pound for
, butter-fat but reduced the test SO
, much that the returns were 76 cents
less than the local Creamery would
' have paid.
' | could go on giving instance after
, Instance But let it suffice to say.
that in your Creamery nobody pro-
f fits by unfair tests. Everybody
gains by just fair plain honesty and
t square dealing.
A You need silos, you need dairy
v cows and you need to "stick by the
q ship" We want to see you prosper.
We know nothing can increase your
n prosperity like dairying. We know
the dairy farmer always has money
$ to pay his bills and little left to
;. jingle in his pocket.
o We have a Service Department
n with the successful experience of a
$ century behind it. This Department
o is conducted free for the benefit of
i Cooperative Dairying. We want %
help and will do all in our power.
}. But in the final analysis your future
prosperity depends upon the loyalty
and good sense your farmers render
to this industry; and from what l
u know of them l preached Success.
u The Creamery will begin opera
/. tion September 4th.