The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-07-10

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Dakota will more than equal in dollars
and cents, the entire wheat crop Of the
state ofsNorths Dakota. I do not Be.
n lieve that this statement is exactly in
We. But do believe that the year
1920, With an ordinary good wheat
crop throughout the state Of North
Dakota win be in the minority OF the
amount received from dairy products
throughout the state Of North Dakota.
We will now 60 back to the first OPP
Grafton of a creamery in Minot. This
is very hard matter to get any real
good sound information on because
all those who were interested in the
first creamery here in Minot as co.
operative institution are very careful
about having anything to say about It
and in number Of cases when you ask
people you know who were interested
in this, they forget entirely all about
4 it. But as near as can be ascertained,
there was a farmers cooperative
creamery organized in Minot about
fifteen years ago, over in the north
east part of town. I have been told
! that this creamery did not go out Of
business on account of not having
enough material to properly run a
creamery, but they went out of busi-
| mess through mismanagement. The
I next we have of record is about 1906,
when man by the name of Thompson
4 started a creamery on the same ground
that is now occupied by the Northern
| Produce Compaay's creamery. This
creamery was discontinued after a
| few years time, as at that particular
time, crops We're very good and as
long as wheat could be raised in alb
undance, the farmers did not have any
time to milk cows. Along in about
1911, the crops were not very good and
at this particular time the farmers
began to change and realize that they
must get into the dairy business to
some extent. The Henningsen Produce
Company, a well known corporation
operating throughout the northwest,
having about twenty-five houses scat
tered through the western part of the
United States, Canada. Alaska and
China. took over the creamery COM
ningsen Creamery Company. This
operated about two years with very
little success as financial PROPOSE
IiOI III 1J1o lNS
Company, corporation acting I'M
North Dakota and also South Dakota
and Minnesota. which was incorporat-
ed under the Minnesota state laws in
1907 This company started in a re-
Der of years to get the creamery busi-E
change in the creamery business in.
Mirnf ,,,Lo
tive Creamery, known as the Minot
Dairy, was organized and built This
creamery operated until sometime in
creamery. Again in 1918 it reopened
Creamery Company. What would be 4
inside schemes, being a Nonpartisan
creamery put up for the purpose Of
taking care of the Consumers United
Stores cream. This creamery is still
operating today.
Some people object to large central
izing plants. BY. large centralizing
plant, we mean one having shipments
made from a radius Of one or two or
three hundred miles and using it as
centralized point for making butter
This is the only plant in operation that
gives the farmers the best results foS
their cream, because the larger the
volume, the higher the price can Ne
paid for the cream, because the manu-
featuring cost is a great deal less per
pound on the large volumne than on a
small amount, as it takes practically
as much overhead expense to run a
forty thousand pound per month
creamery as it does two hundred
thousand pound per month creamery.
The only additional cost would be in
supplies and labor. Now, to give you
as comparison Of local figures over
the past four years, we will give you
the following figures: |
For month Of June, 1915, 37.514;t
for 6 months, 1915, 121 ,975.
For month Of June, 1916, 55,515;I
for months, 1916. $131 ,48O.
For month Of June, 1917, 1904;
for months, 1917, las, 41O.
For month of June, 1918, 1O3,361;
for months, 1918, 281, 73O.
For month of June, 1919, 281 ,45O;
for months, 1919, 814,251.
This is the amount taken in by one
creamery, with two others operating,
with an output which we believe will
be about 10000 pounds of butter man
ufactured for the month of June. mi
addition to this. we believe that there is
enough cream being shipped from a,
radius of 80 miles from Minot to man
ufacture one-half million pounds Of
butter insthe month of June
II connection with the product Of
butter made from cream. we have al
number of by-products. One that is
termed whey butter" is made from
the whey turned off in the cheese fac
tory. Now there is development on)
foot to use all the buttermilk. One
process is buttermilk condensory, j
which evaporates 9 great amount Of