The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-18
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Agricultural CoIiege, MISS, Dec. 10.
i-Creamerymeh and dairy workers
from all sections of Mississippi gath
cred here today and completed the or
ganization of the State Creamery
mans Association. for the purpose Of
furnishing practical knowledge of
creamery methods, the development of
the dairy industry, and for promoting
better facilities for the transfer and
storage of butter in the state.
This movement was launched dur.
ing the Mississippi-Alabama Fair at
Meridian when number of creamery
and dairy workers assembled in the
A. e. NJ. College Dairy Extension Elk.
hibition building. At that meeting o.
F. Fuller of Jackson was elected tenn.
porary president, and DR.. ]. W..
Crumpton, manager of the creamery
at the A. &. M. College; Prof. J. s.
Moore, Head of the Dairy Department,
and L. A. Higgins of the Extension Di-
vision were appointed to draft the con.
stitution and bylaws. These were re-
vised and adopted at the present ses-,
sion. An important feature of the by
laws, suggested by J. NJ. Alexander,
manager of the Mississippi Creamery
Association at Jackson, is the pro
vision for a credit association to keep
the various creamery managers in
formed as to the standing and delin.
quent customers.
Officers were elected for the coming
year as follows: President, j. M.
Alexander; vice president, Frank John.
son, manager of the Aberdeen Cream
cry; secretary and treasurer, George
M. Long, manager of the Macon
Creamery; board of directors, Lee
Harrington, Manager of the Clarified
Milk Company of Meridian; A. H. Tay
llor, manager of the Okolona Cream
cry, and DIR. ]. w. Crumpton.
The program for the meeting was ar
ranged by Prof J. S. Moore and includ
ed talks from several of the men most
interested in the dairy development
of the state. E. r. Lloyd, director Of
the college extension work and of the
Experiment Station, discussed the
need of cooperation of the dairy inter.
ests of the state in standardizing dairy
products, reviewed the dairy extension
work of the Agricultural College, show
ing it's growth and results: and urged
all workers to see that a locality had
the 400 to GOO COWS necessary to
support a creamery before any such
organization was undertaken.
A feature of the meeting was a but
ter scoring contest in which each Mis-
sissippi creamery entered a twenty
pound tub of its butter taken from a
regular churning, and packed for mar
ket. The Okolona and Meridian cream
cries tied for first place with score
of 91.5, though the others were close,
the lowest score being 90.5. NJ P. A.
Sondergaard of the manufacturing sec
ton of the United States Dairy Di
vision,- who judged the butter, com
mented on this uniformity, and was
well pleased with the work of the
state creameries. After the contest
Mr.. Sondergaard who is now the field
agent for the government to aid the
creamery work in Mississippi and
Louisiana, addressed the association.
Although new man in the South, hav-
| ing taken up the work here in October,
he is familiar with Mississippi condi-
| tons and is enthusiastic over the
dairy development of the past few
years, and the states great possibili-
| ties in that industry. According to
his investigations, Southern cream
cries are at present filling only Is
per cent of the market demands for
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