Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-02-11
81. 90 Per Year
co OPERATIVE CREAsfERIEs
Can BE Made OF Great Benefit to tho
Farmers.

Throughout Southern Idaho stand
nineteen abandoned cooperative
creameries. part of these are leas-
ed to private parties while a part are
standing idle In the same region
three cooperative creameries are be-
ing run successfully.
Without exception the first named
were organized by professional pro-
moters. The other three were organ
lied by the farmers themselves with
some assistance from the Idaho Agri-
cultural college and the u. S. Dairy
division.
SO many creameries have failed
that it will be we'll to study the prob
lem carefully. Honest creamery
promotion should not be condemned.
In order to establish a creamery a
promoter must stay in one place sew
eral weeks. If after all his time and
expense in that community, he fails
to start a creamery there, do you
blame him from getting his pay from
the next place a creamery is started?
1t is not entirely a swindle when a
good stiff price is asked for the
to pay for services rendered.
Usually the promoter has one par
ticular line of machinery he wishes
to sell. Just to prove that everything
is all right he may agree to furnish a
, butter maker and market. This ap-
e pears to be a good proposition but II
may be only so that the creamery
5 may run long enough for the promot-
n er to get his pay. Soon afterward
g the stockholders find that a part OF
a the machinery will have to be re-
d placed at a heavy cost, that there Is
l. not enough butterfat produced to en-
.e able a creamery to run at profit and
,e that it is difficult to find market.
m Soon afterward the creamery will be
G. shut down and the creamery business
to pronounced a failure.
ne 1t is to be regretted that so much
ne ranch butter is produced. A large
ed Quantity of butter of "a uniform quail
ON ity will bring a better price than
as mixed lot OF butter OF all colors. ffav
IA ors and grades and degrees of salti
m ness. Idaho is losing money by pro
TO- ducing all kinds of butter. A cream
cry will get more butter from tn
same amount OF cream and 1t Wi
bring better price on the market.
In starting creamery the frs
,o proposition is to secure enoug
cream. Under northwest condition
unless the product OF five or six hui
dred cows could be supplied III
de, creamery cannot run at a profit.
Ike For the beginning it is better
,h start with a modest factory and q
=, large later, than to invest more thu
r.. necessary. The machinery must
80. that which is needed rather than tn
49,, which someone wants to sell. The
49, are a number of reliable supply hou
- es each anxious to please their CT
49,, toners,
-, The creamery man is the most Il
.,,, portant problem of all. A man I'll
. can make good butter. who has bu
49,, ness ability and can make and hS
- friends is the kind that is needed.
..a man who can be bluffed into raisi
~ the tests for some pessimestic patr
,.,,,. who imagines he is being cheated
no place in a creamery.
Gathering the cream is best left
each neighborhood. Cream routes
expensive and must be paid for
sent those who receive the benefit.
very several patrons will join together
,ddi- take turns delivering the cream
expense can be saved.
In the northwest marketing 1
serious problem. This must be d
noti- by commission by contract or by
gen ing direct to the retailer. Most ere
,.,,,- cries use all these methods.
For a successful co-opera
"'eS creamery there must be a boarS
Nerh- directors. who are willing to
inn some of their time to the work. tt
alton must also be a class OF patrons
atoms stockholders who will uphold the
srvice rectors Instead OF constantly crit
con- ing them. f. Il. RINEHAR'
cases L. :. Dept. OF Agri, Rupert. Id
been