Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-08-12
CREAMERY BOARD AT WORK
Two Important Meetings Held This
Week, at Which Time Plans
We're Adopted for
Building.
Contract for the Erection of Same
Soon to BE Let.

oraat benefit to the jerome district,
particularly the dairy farmers in this
section. we're held last Monday. The
first meeting was called at the re-
onest of w. G. Scholtz. director of
the state Department OF Farm Mark
ets and was held In Mr.. Stoltz' room
at the North Side Inf in the after
noon. where he outlined to the di-
rectors OF our new cooperative
creamery association the object and
plan OF operation of the Southern
Idaho Dairy Products Association.
Through the efforts OF the Farm Mar
kets Department the cooperative |
creameries and cheese factories In |
Southern Idaho have just recently |
been brought together into fedora
ton for the purpose OF standardizing |
the product OF all these factories, in
this way enabling them all TO put a
uniform product on the market buy
ing supplies together In carload lots,
pooling shipments In carlots, and Sc
curing for each local organization the
best markets on the coast. and better
prices than they are now securing.
An expert butter and cheese man has
already been employed as field rep
resentative and is now working
..f Ia .sgngfp-
ton Mr. c. a. Scott, the field man
above referred TO. was also present at
the meetings OF Monday. and gave
our directors the benefit OF his advice
and experience This federation OF
cooperative dairy interests. known
as the Southern Idaho Dairy Pro-
ducts association. is expected to be
OF especial benefit To the newly or
ganized farmers creameries which In
the past have been handicapped
somewhat In the marketing of their
output at the beginning on account
OF having no standing with the trade
Through this new federation, how
ever. a new creamery. such as ours
can start right out with the same
market advantages as the old estab-
lIshed concerns State and govern
ment dairy officials. trade papers on
the coast and the trade generally
look upon the formation OF this big
federation as the most important
move affecting the dairy interests OF
Southern Idaho ever undertaken In
the state.
Our board OF directors unanimous
ly decided to affiliate with the other
cooperative creameries in this move
ment.
Second Meeting.
In the evening the board of direct
ors held another meeting, at th'
Times office, for the purpose OF de
Gliding upon plans for creamery
building. necessary apparatus, etc
At the evening meeting. an addition
to Messrs. Scholtz and Scott, the al
rectors had the benefit of the coun
sci OF Prof G. +. Frevert. creamer'
Inhalation expert of the federal gov
ernment. Plans for a building A.
by 81 feet were adopted. and a lis
of necessary machinery prepared. Be
fore deciding upon the purchase o
this apparatus. however, II was dc
cided to investigate the defunc
creamery plant at Kimberly, whic
machinery had been offered to on
directors at very low figure. Messr'
Frevert, Scott and Scholtz, accompa
MED by Geo. Lawshe of our Doar'
drove over to Kimberly Tuesda
morning to investigate the Offer an
upon their unanimous recommend
ton the machinery of that plant wa
purchased. The Kimberly plant wa
installed by professional promote
who loaded the property down VIII
a lot OF expense for which no Valu
was received. That part OF the ou
fit purchased by our board, howeVe
was machinery of highest quality an
was secured at only fraction OF u
original cost, although the plant ma
been in operation only two months
Before leaving Jerome, Mr.. Stol
stated TO our board that after L
vestigating all the communities
the state In which cooperative creai
cries we're now operating and goiI
over their plants, he could unhesita
ingly say our outlook for success W
more promising than any OF the
calities that had organized TO da'
and furthermore that II the creame
is constructed according to the pla
proposed that we will have the me
modern and most efficient co-operi
i've creamery plant in South ldaf
all the mistakes of other plants ha
ing been overcome in our plal
This was a source Of much satisf'
ton to our board.