The Washburn leader., 1916-08-11
Support Your Co /.
operative Creamery
arc Making an Ef-
1bEt to Foroe Creamaies :,
III out Of Business
] Do NOT BE M1sLEAD
Compare Prices in the States
Where the two Kinds are
Carried On

Many cooperative creamery
managers complain that members
are not giving the support to
their own plant. The attrac-
tive prices offered temporarily
by centraizers take away much
of the trade which should go to
the cooperative if it is to at
tain its highest degree Of sue
cess. The only reason Of the
high prices from the centraliz-
ers is to make an effort to force
the cooperative out Of business
Those who support the former
are helping to cut their own
throats as pointed out by the.
IMahnomen creamery in the fol-
lowing communication to it's pa
irons:
"You are probably once in a
while receiving cards and cir
culars from one or more centra-
izing creameries soliciting your
shipments of cream. Perhaps
you have not had the opportun-
ity to- look into the methods whic
the centralizers employ in their
business, with the prices paid
in other states where the centra-
lizers have the monopoly Of the
creamery business, with the pric-
es paid in other states where
farmers creameries are setting
the prices. If so the following
lines will be worth your careful
perusal: "
"For the past ten or fifteen
years there has been a steady
effort made by large and we'll
organized centralizing cream
cries to force the farmers cream
cries out Of business. They are
heavily capitalized and are work
ing with great persistence in
order to obtain their purpose. In
the last five or six months a
special effort has been made in.
this territory. Therefore we
shall give you a few facts about
the centrali1ng system in gen.
eral.
Minnesota, Iowa and Wis
consin are the states where the
farmers creameries have had
the most success, and where the
prices of butterfat are controlled
by them. Nebraska, Kansas and
Oklahoma are three. states where
the farmers creameries have been
closed by unfair competition. The
United States government has in
vestigated this condition in Kan
sas an. Nebraska, and reports
through the Bureau of Animal
Hushandry, Washington, D. c.,
in part as follows
"Records show that in Kan
sas and Nebraska, where the mon.
opoly of the cenrahzers appears
to be complete, the farmers re-
ceiNed only II to 18 cts. average
price for their butter-fat, while
in Iowa, Minnesota and Wis
consin, where the cooperative
creameries have the field, the
prices for butterfat were from
20 to 26 cents average. This
quotation can be verified to your
satisfaction from the reports of
the Bureau of Animal Husband
ry, Washington, d. c.
1SThe following prices were paid
for butter fat in the different
counties of Nebraska for May
1915. May 81, Saunders county
a. CENTS, May % Northwest
Chase county 81 cents, May %
Furnace county % cents; May
% Holt county % cents; Com
pare these prices with the prices
paid by the same concerns in
minnesota and Wisconsin. There
is a difference of 10 cents poune
While the May prices in Neb-
raska were from 2l to % cents,
in Minnesota they were from 2S
to 80 cents. Compare also the
price paid by the Farmers Cream
cry at Mahnomen and other CO.
operative creameries then you
will see the reason for the high
er prices in Minnesota. The far
mers in Nebraska have to take
these low prices because there
are no farmers creamelies in
Nebraska. The centralizers are
q national organization and fix
prices to suit themselves. The
! centrahze1s would not pay as
high prices as they do If there