Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-06
IOWA cREAMERfs
NOW FIGHTING FOR A
"PLACE IN THE SUM

| tuls SeCtioH ~ may NC SoAu tho' wv" V
CO. operative creameries are fighting
for "a place in the sum-" Arguments
against the wisdom of dairying are
abundant now as compared with ordi-
nary times. very great majority or
farmers perhaps really prefer work In
the cornaeld and around the hog house
to the steady grind Of milking and the
general care Of mich cows. The GER
tainty Of profit and the keeping up
of the soil on the farm are the reasons
for many farmers continuance in the
business Of producing cream and other
dairy products and just now with corn
and other COW feed so valuable and
with hogs selling at heretofore un-
heard Of prices 1t is uphill work for the
creamery management seeking to hold
its own with other forms Of farm &C
tivlty. or course the creamery adVo-
cate insists that II would be a calam-
| ity to close the local plant because
! the present grain and hog market sit
uation will undergo reimbursement some
of these days and then the local
creamery will be missed as valued
! friend. Centralized concerns are ready
to take up the product, it Is true but
| somehow prices settle In centralized
territory when all is over with the To-
cal plant which can not be closed one
day and opened the next at Will. 1t
would seem that If ever dairy trains
and other forms Of dairying instruc-
ton and enthusiasm were necessary
now is the time and that cooperative
creamery management ought now
more than ever before to be harconi-
Gus and fair and impartial to all con-
cerned otherwise there presently Will
be a considerably smaller number OF
such plants operating in Iowa FEW
months hence than is the case at this
time.
Alexander has modest creamery
plant that promises to continue In
business despite adverse conditions
and a rumor that it Is busted
concern. 1t was organized in 1871,
and capitalized al $4,000 practically
paid up. Shares OF dividend bearing
stock with a par value OF :25 supplied
the capital required About $500 Of in
.debtedness has bene paid off within
the last year and the institution Is
now almost debt free There are only
SDDuI SISLN a Hp lIbus dl pItSSIt'f 1917
more than half as many as in former
days but with the coming OF spring
the number will be considerably in
crea sed. The stockholder receives l
cent per pound more than the non
stakeholder and there Is said TO be
sentiment enough against the dis
elimination to warrant at least a con-
sideration OF change in this particu-
lar. 1t is told with pride by one in
terested that the product Of the local
plant sold last month in the New
York market to within / cent per
pound of the top price paid.
80
J. c. Arends, q local farmer, fur
nishes this as an interesting record OF
deal in horseflesh-and horse hide.
Years ago Mr.. Arends invested in
blooded Percheron mare that cost him
1000. She raised him ten colts which
he sold at from $500 up. then she died.
Her skin was given 40 another man :,
exchange for a hog OF the female sex.
In time n prolific litter OF fall pigs ar
rived and these at the present writ
ing are worth something like 5000. OF
course there was the cost Of feed. etc.
but that wouldn't help the story any
and will not here receive considera-
ton. AS an example Of colt raising
possibilities Mr.. Arends has 2-ysar-
old that weighs 1850 pounds and ais
months old colt that tips the beam at
1850
Il will put this away with my other
papers of the kind. | keep them ALL
cat Stnf ahakpy a q his # a.
Republican receipt was handed him
and then he told this receipt" story.
Years ago the Studebaker family lived
in Wright county and one day one OF
the boys went to town. bought suit
Of clothes and had them charged TO
his father who later on sent another
son, the one who related this. 70 the
clothing man, with the money to liqul-
date the debt. A SO bill was rendered
and a receipt and the 80 cents of
change given to the boy. Then the
Studebakers moved back to Illinois
and probably thought no more about
the matter until one day statement
came from the clothing man request
ing payment for the suit. The old
farmer questioned the son who In
sisted he had paid and taken receipt
which he could not find and Mr.. Stude-
baker being man Of peace capitu-
lated and paid up again. The boy
who claimed he had paid as instructed
increased In weight and stature as
other boys and outgrew his coat. Later
it was proposed to give this article OIL
appare! to boy whom 1t would mt.
The pockets were gone thru and in
one of them were the old receipt and
the silver change. The receipt was
mailed to the Iowa merchant still in
business and the 1866 paid twelve
years before was returned without
further parley.
1t will be long time until the eff
fects OF the seasons car shortage Is
forgotten. landowner near Kanawha
rented his farm for grain rent and
contracted with the tenant to deliver
the farmers share Of oats, about 5000
bushels TO an elevator not later than
March l. A week previous to this date
the elevator was full Of grain and no
cars to be had. The tenant could no:
he expected to return to the farm
from which he was moving and haul
the grain after the specified time. The
owner would simply have to employ
some one else to do the job later max
ing q good sized dent" In his profits
4 ioca! condition favored Elevator
Manager Mcdowell at this point A
lot Of county ditch work is being done
in this locality and car after car OF tile
has been shipped to Alexander. These
when unioaded serve as "empties'
available for elevator use and car