The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-06-04
wedding OUT BOARDERS
GET RID OF THOSE COWS
THAT DO NOT WORK
ADVISING THE DAIRYMEN
Buttermakers and Creamery
Heads Held Their Meeting
Yesterday

yesterday
Efficiency of the creamery opera
tor as. means of advancing the in
terests Of creamery associations
throughout the state, was the princi-
pa theme taken for discussion at the
meeting of District union No. 6 of
the Minnesota Creamery Operators
and Managers association, held at
the Y. NJ. C. A. Auditorium yesterday
afternoon when a large number of
the buttermakers Of the surrounding
co operative creameries met. Among
speakers of the afternoon were Coun-
ty Agent L. E. McMillen c. II. Brown
of Elk River. Mimi, member of the
university extension bureau and
James Sorensoa, state secretary of
the association. In the, absence of
President Pomeroy of Mapleton, who
is confined to his home with illness,
Vice President M. A. Schons of this
city presided at the meeting.
Following the meeting yesterday
afternoon, the delegates to the con :.
vention were the guests of G. p.
Murphy of this city, representing the
Creamery Package Manufacturing
company of Minneapolis at dinner
at Mitchell's cafe.
County Agent McMillen of this
city was the first speaker of the aft
ernoon. Mr.. McMillen said that the
work of the county farm bureau and
cooperative dairies have much in
common. The farm bureau is ready
and willing at all times to aid in the
creamery industry. In the two years
that the farm bureau has been in ex-
istence, much good work in the way
of CO. operation with the farmers in
this respect has been done. The farm
bureau, the speaker said was made
mp entirely of farmers, and formulat-
ed on the policies formulated by the
farmer. 1t is distinctively a farm
movement.
Among the problems now under
consideration by the local farm bu-
reau is the question of wool market
ing. The pooling of wool of the
county so that 1t can be shipped in
carloads, and a better market Sc
cured for it. Mr.. McMillen called
attention to tho fact that one of
those meetings will be held at the
Y. M. C. A., building Saturday after
noon.
Mr.. McMillen dwelt at considera-
BILE length on the necessity of better
breeding of dairy cattle in order to
bring about an increase of produc-
ton of dairy products.
James Sorenson, state secretary
of the association, spoke at some
length the necessity of CO. operation
between the creamery operator and
the creameries. This CO. operation
is absolutely necessary if the CO.
operative dairies are to combat the
centralizing plants. Mr.. Sorenson
gave a number Of instances of where
the centraiizing plants have put the
cooperative creameries out of bust
ness. At the present time Minneso-
ia is far in the lead in the way of
cooperative diaries, and there is lit
tie danger for some time to come at
least of the centralizing plants put
ting the local creameries out of COM
mission. Mr.. Sorenson said that the
CO. operative dairy is the one closetst
to the cow, and should be backed up
to the fullest extent. There are $40
Of them in the state at the present
time.
In order to make success of his
chosen profession, the creamery op-
orator must take a decided interest
in the business of the creamery, for
better business means better pay and
poorer business means poorer pay.
Therefore it behooves the wide
awake buttermaker to bring his parti
cular creamery to the greatest de-
gree of efficiency
One of the greatest objects of the
association is to furnish competent
and trustworthy buttermakers or
operators to the farmer to run his
creamery. No man is admitted to
the organization without three years
experience, and thorough test in
every way as to his integrity and
honesty. For this reason the CO op-
erative diaries need not hesitate in
the least in employing member of
the association. Mr.. Sorenson ex-
planned that the association Is not
union, and at all times the directors
OF the local creameries are welcome
to attend business meetings. The
prime object of the association is to
CO operate in furnishing competent
men for the handling of the dairy in
terests. Another aim of the associa-
ton is to protect the interests of the
local diaries, and see that no frauds
are perpetrated upon them.
Weed Out The Boarders.
Mr.. Sorenson said that he wanted
to reiterate some of the statements
of County Agent McMillen, for the
necessity of testing dairy cows and
of wedding out the "boarders" and Sc
curing, cows that produce good re-
suits in butter fat.
G. e. Brown of Elk River, Mimi,
member OF the extension service of
the state university, said that there
were three fundamentals to be look-
ed after in the dairy business. First
good business, that is plenty of
cream from which to produce dairy
products. Second the securing OF
good profits and third the securing
of good market for the products
produced. Perhaps the grade of the
products is the most important after
all, for without quality, the dairy
business must OF a necessity be
short lived.
1t was with considerable emphasis
that Mr.. Brown dwelt upon the ne
cessity of advertising butter and
other dairy products, owing to the
fact that substitutes are rapidly TAX
ing the place of the real dairy pro-
ducts, which greatly lack in nutri-
ton. The speaker said that even in
the last war the great nutrition Of
milk and butter was proven on the
battieflelds and in the field hospitals.
There is campaign now under way
in this state to collect one tenth Of
one cent per pound of butter to
create a fund for advertising dairy