The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-02-17

herman, has about completed his log
cling contract in Sec. %.
The next thing on the program will
be new Easter bonnets and taxes.
For the first time this year, the Fin
ley poet missed calling at the Office
this week. We hope he has not taken
offense because his poem on Spring
was not published in full.
|. Saturday, February 26, is in demand
in this neighborhood, but way has been
made for the Parent-Teachers' assoc
citation annual meeting and election.
The county officials will be on hand,
and the ladies have prepared New
England dinner to be served at noon.
Everyone is invited and asked to bring
brown bread and beans.
We hate to admit it, but on the 9Th,
9th and 10th the oiled road between
Finley and Kennewick was better than
the old trail over the sand hill. This
was due to the fact that Supervisor
Thamke had it plowed out on the 7th.
Who is Bertha?
Why she's the ferry operating at
the O-W. bridge.
The Kennewick Cooperative cream
cry has put on a cream wagon down
the valley, and we venture that it will
prove paying investment. One would
be surprised could he know the amount
of cream that has been shipped out of
the valley the past year, and yet our
creamery has been on the job all the
time with prices equal to the highest,
and often two cents better than others
have paid. True, when they first
started we had to wait until the 18th
or the Goth for our money, but each
month it has come little earlier, and
now it comes promptly the first of the
month. It is a lamentable fact that
where no creameries are established
butter fat prices are two or three
cents lower than where local cream
cry is being operated, and that the
larger creameries are continually try
ing to force out the little local con-
Germs. Our creamery is no exception,
and when we consider what it is do
ing for the community, we cannot un-
derstand why the local men have per-
sited in shipping out their cream.
However, nothing succeeds like sue
cess, and now that our creamery has
weathered the storm we predict that
everyone will turn their cream to Ken
newick.
Along these lines, we have often
how many of the local dairy
men know what their cows are making
them. The creamery has made prac-d
tice of testing milk for their patrons
without charge-this within reasons
able limits-and we surmise that if
all the patrons would weigh the milk
from each cow, and have it tested oc-
casionally, many would have their
eyes opened. Many pet cows would be
led off to the butcher, and others that
had been condemned would be found
to be money makers. The most inn
portant thing is to see that the milk
is thoroly mixed before the sample is
taken. Experiences in the valley diff
fer widely, and dairymen receive from
$1,000 to $500 per ton for their. al
falfa when fed to dairy cows. If they
would. but take advantage of the OPP
portunity the creamery affords, and
Gull their herds as the actual records
would indicate, $1,000 per ton would
be the rule rather than the exception.
News is so scarce this week that the
editor is going down to Arthur Quinn
by's and try to get him to call on Capt.
Hoyt in the hopes of striking up an
argument.
Later-As this goes to press Quinn
by and the Capt are just getting
started and we can't report until
next week.