Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-10-27
Know Your Town

NnOWT your JOWu
Since March, 1915, more than $780,
00.G0 has been paid directly into the
{ pockets Of farmers in the territor;
| surrounding the Capital City by a
Bismarck concern which cackles less
,ver laying down 4,320,00O eggs than
| he busy North Dakota hen does in
! aging one. Eggs sufficient to pro-
| idei the daily ham and" of every
nan, woman and child in the Flicker.
all state for four days, have been
| bought by this one Bismarck institu.
ION since March l. During the same
! ,eriod this concern has paid out more
han $3O,090.00 for butter fat, and
bout $10,000.00 for live poultry, and
ne poultry season is just beginning
The establishment has a payroll OF
approximately s12,O00.00 per annum,
Ill of which is spent in the Capital
ity, and it brings to town hundreds
f farmers, attracted here by the
eady market and cash sales for their
,roduce. Were the plant operating to
Ill capacity. it would be paying out,
or butter fat alone, more than $4,000
! >er day, or $270,000.00 per. year, and
ne management is optimistic enough
believe that the day is not far dis
! ant when the possibilities of this re-
ion as dairy country will be fully
,ppreciated, and when not only the
resent plant but a number of others
ill be churning tons OF butter daily.
Concern, a Newcomer. 80"
The Northern Produce Co., with
eadquarters at St. Paul, and with
erge branch houses ins Bismarck,
1inot, Grand Forks, Fargo and Aber.
cen, took over its Bismarck house
':pril /. 1914, when $15,000.0O was ex.
ended In 'rem0deling and improving
ne already modern plant. The man,
ger, Carl Nelson, who had been with
he company for four years, came to
bismarck from Billings. Mont, where
,e had been with the yellowstone
'reamery Co. He recognized the ,oR;
'ortunities existing said 3he, has neyef
aissed an opportunity foYatheir devel
'pment. The result has been that
very month the company has made
more butter and better butter than
he month before; the Bismarck
louse is handling 10000 pounds of
oultry now, where it handler 5000 a
ear ago, and its egg business, since
1arch l, has reached the enormous
otal of 100000 dozen, netting Mis-.
ouri Slope farmers $60,00O.00, on
roduct which has always, heretofore,
'een regarded as a side issue.
The Northern Produce Co. has
demonstrated to the North Dakota
armer that there is money in poultry,
ggssand cream. It is noM planning
0 sAuca ake,,ih hiMs along lineAsof better
odslaratrtprean ItR convihe*,
! MatSsa!s Npdsc hiGksts, as 'sa6s
axiliary to the farm proper, or as a
peeialisaslstfQen1s tlsehaudry, 'sltif ssayI:
arm the farmer as good dividends as
ogs and hominy or wheat and flax.
o. Ton Of Butter, Daily. 4!
The capacity of the Northern Pro.
luce Co. dairy is now 1000 pounds of
utter per day. The present produc-
ion is about 900 pounds daily. The
armer is too busy to ship his cream,
" prefers to risk the chance of turn.
1g it into butter. But the receipts
re Increasing every week, and an
ther year should :r.see,n production
'rought up to full capacity. The time
believed not far distant when the
liant will be compelleds to;l operate
light and day, or to double it's pres.
mt equipment, either of which re.
'ults would mean a daily expenditure
t almost 100000 for butter-fat
lone. y,
The plant at the intersection Of
.Sinth street and the. Northern Paci:
C is a model Of sanitation, rated at
y out of a possible 100 points by
Pure Food Commissioner E. f. Ladd
N September 49,, 1915. The. walls
: nd floors of the creamery: the but
; er packing department, the cold
. forage rooms and refrigerating plants
are a snowy white, relied upon to be.
! ray the, presence of the slightest
race Of dust. There are no odors:
20 dark. damp spots which might i'm.
9air the purity of the products hand.
ed. Fresh air, sunlight and water
re used in abundance, and the re-
'ult Is absolute cleanliness.
: The cases in which eggs are stored
ire Of new, clean maple! veneer, nail.5
"a here. Nuggets of calcium chlor.
de in the cooling rooms absorb every
vestige Of taipt or. .impurity, and keep.
ne atmosphere at the proper, degree
u humidity. So perfects;is the con.
srol of the refrigerating system 4that
since May l the telppsrature ,of. tlic
Egg room has been maintained at
twenty-nine degrees, without the var.
!ation OF & degree. BY plan of ven.
'ilation which keeps the air in con.
slant { cirtnlation,, it is possible to pre-.
.'erve q temperature Of several dc,
.gsrces below fleeing wfthout affecting
the eggs which, without this constant
current, would freeze solid in a night
Refrigeratin3 System.
The modern, insulated ice house. in
which the damp, odor.breeding saw.
dust is dispensed with, has a capacity
OF $50 tons: The frigidity engendered
by this ice, Wien properly combined
with salt in the cooling tanks, is con.
yeyed to the various departments
through pipes, operating on system
Just the reverse of that used for hot.
water heating.
Every egg which goes into cold
storage is candled, and it must be
above suspicion. Experts engaged at
this task each handle thirty cases, or