The Benson signal., 1919-10-25

eight townships
And it is the cooperative cream
ere tfllt makes this showing posi-
hfe.
LET 1r1e give you some more fig
ures. They can talk lots louder
than I can. The average net price
per pound for butterfat paid by all
these nineteen creameries, figuring
in every month of 1914, was .86
cents.
Just study on that while, too.
If YOU are shipping your cream to
centralizer, compare that average
price with the average price you
got for the same twelve months. It
will help you to understand the
truth of that manufacturer state
ment that the man who finishes"
the product gets the real profits in
the business. The farmers of Todd
county are finishing their dairy
product and they are getting for
themselves whatever profit the busi
ness affords.
The cooperative creamery in
| Todd county has stimulated the
dairy business because it has made
it immensely profitable.
The creamery has stood with
open door offering a constant mar
ket. It his literally urged and ar
gued the farmers into dairying
None of us in Todd county today
believe that the dairy industry
would have advanced much more
than the fraction of the distance it
has advanced if the industry had
been on cream shipping basis. No.
gentlemen, if you want to advance
the dairy industry in your commit
nifty, organize and manufacture the
butter at home. Let the manufac-
turing plant be your plant, let its
management be your management,
and I do not need to tell you that
the profit will be your profit.
WHAT FARMERS RECEIVE
I said moment ago that the CO.
operative creamery had made the
dairy business immensely profitable
to Todd county dairy farmers.
Let me read to you the amounts
of the checks received in 1914 by
three farmers from the creameries
named. I will not take time to
read reports from all the cream
cries.
Bertha Creamery---James Johnston, ST.
55O.64: Julius Klebs. $l.455.28; Aug. Wei
her,$l,lll,7I. Round Prairie Creamery
w. w. Livingston, $909.52; c. ]. Johnson,
S5364 Jas. Christensen. 747.2o. Hewett
Creamery---Aug. Wendorf. l,202.82; Fred
Sellnow, 9878O; Chas. Baumgartner;
87l53, Reynolds Creamery---J. w. Nc
Neil. 1860; NJ E. Clutches, l.O57.l3;
John Zennley. l.046.63. Eagle Bend Cream
ery---Merickel & Nelson, l,35467; John
Haugdahl. l.32277; N. M. Bergstrom, L.
O7764. Gray Eagle Creamery---Christian
Schwanke, 1926; F. Hoffman. 78O.9o; H.
McCIintick, 74O.3l. Rose City Creamery.
P. ]. Nelson, 857.83; A. B. Rosenquist.
1857; Andrew Johnson. 75l.43. Osakis
Creamery---J Bird, l.62097; w c Shaw.
I.O727O Geo. H. White & Sons, $3.50.
When the farmers are averaging
from $500 to $4,000 per month
the year round from their sale of
butterfat, it can be assumed that
the dairy business is pretty we'll es-
tab1ished. In my county where
these dairymen live, it is agreed
that the cooperative creamery is
the agency which has built up the
dairy business there.
THE OVERRUN
When the butter is made in the
community where the butterfat is
produced, there are manufacturing
reasons why a greater profit comes
to the farmer. Do yon know what
the overrun' is in the manufac-
ture of butter? When you take a
pound of butterfat and churn it
into butter, you add water and salt
to it so that a pound of butterfat
will churn into more than a pound
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