Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-08-15
DAIRY REGULATIONS FOR
NORTH DAKOTA.

eHectlng the handling, shipping and
manufacture OF DAIRY products which
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and loses OF food man-power, and
shipping space that result from the
present system; If handling, shipping
and manufac;- icug dairy products OF
the state.
Dairy products properly handled
are the most perfect of all foods;
they are necessary to normal health
and development of every human be-
ing.
The annual income from marketable
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value of our average wheat crop
Approximately 16.000.000 pounds OF
butterfat are marketed annually; this
in the form of cream represents Il
total of approximately 50,000.000
pounds. OF this amount only 1S. 3
per cent is manufactured ut the local
creameries of the state. 1914 per
cent is made up into butter at ten
creameries in the state that do CEN
traliZing business and involves the
shipment of twelve and one-half mil
lion pounds of cream an average dis
lance of 100 miles. The remaining
30 3 per cent of our entire marketable
dairy product or 10000 900 is shipped
an average distance of 400 miles to
points outside the state where it is
manufactured into butter This de
plorable system is used in Il state that
has sufficient number of creameres
SO located and equipped that all of
our product if delivered to the nearest
manufacturing plant would require an
average shipping distance of less
than 80 miles.
Unnecessary shipment of bulky,
highly pcrishable food product direct
ly causes waste of food through
mechanical loss and deterioration of
quality besides adding great and
unnecessary burden to our transporta-
ton facilities which are already con-
gested.
Few people realize the extent of
waste and loss which results from
system that necessitates the fermen-
tation and spelling of what in its nat
ural condition is the most perfect of
all foods; and any system agency or
individual that keeps cream from the
churn longer than is absolutely neces-
sary encourages a practice that dis
courages production and consumption
of food now necessary to help win the
war.
The Dairy Regulations call for the
elimination of all creamery stations
at points where well managed cream
cries are operated and limits the num-
Der of cream stations at all points
to one for each 100000 pounds of but
terfat annually shipped from sucn
points. The purpose of eliminating
of expense il: operating same as such
unnecessary expense is always borne
by either the producer or the consum-
err. Also when several cream sta
tons oprate at single point the ele-
ment of competition tends to discour-
age production and delivery Of high
quality product. which results in low
prices to the producer and poor quail
ity product to the consumer. No high
quality standard can be successfully
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petition in cream buying exists. and
where several cream stations operate
at single point it is usually true that
one or more of these act as agents
for centralizers distantly removed
thus involving unnecessary shipping
charges avoidable delay in shipment
and poor quality cream by the time it
reaches the distant churning point.
Contrary to what has been COM
monty taught. especially by central
izer creameries. competition in cream
buying is not protection to the pro.
Queer of cream. 1t actually reduces
net prices to him. or increases The
price cf an inferior product to the
consumer. Cream producers who late
ly have signed petitions circulated b.
centralizers through their cream buy