The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1921-06-16
DAIRYMEN FORM
MARKET AGENCY
Over 300 Minnesota CreamerieS
Form Organization to
Promote Sales.
DIRECTORS ARE CHOSEN
Plan For Service ls Modelled After the
California Fruit Growers-Large
Saving Seen In Handling Out
put In Carload Lots.

st. Paul-Three hundred twenty ac-
credited delegates representing APP
proximately half Of the $50 co-opera-
tive creameries Of Minnesota, met in
the State Capitol and launched a state
organization Of cooperative creameries
TO extend service to the ereameries
and aid In the establishment OF sales
agencies. 1t was declared that this
probably is the first organization Of
its kind In the world.
A board OF fifteen directors was
chosen at the meeting which was held
IN the House chamber.
The plan for Aervice-not primarily
a sales agency-is modelled along the
plan OF the California Fruit growers,
when has met with remarkable sue
cess.
Plan Carload Shipments.
The tentative plan is to have q car
lot shipping point in each district, The
principal aims Of the state association
are:
Frst-To have the state divided into
districts SO that car lot assembling Of
butter for shipment can be made.
Hugh ]. Hughes, marketing director
OF the Department Of Agriculture, es-
Inmates that 800 a car load net can
be saved butter producers in freight
charges alone by getting the carload
rates. That would mean considerably
more than the S155,000 expense given
as the maximum cost Of the state as
s~ociation machinery.
Second-To standardize grades and
Improve quality. That is so the con-
sumner will know what kind of butter
he will receive. The cooperative
creameries now sell under different
brand James and a person does not
know just what kind OF butter he will
get when he buys other than butter
put out by a large concern. If Mime
sofa A butter would be OF the same
standard and quality whether made in
Polk county or Mower county, 1t
would establish q demand for Mime
sofa A butter, the Department Of Agri-
culture contends.
Third-Service would be given in the
sale of products. Later 1t is planned
to have sales agencies in Chicago, Phi
ladelphia and New York, consuming
rcenters, where the products of Mime
gotta creameries would be sold in car
load lots and the expense OF middle
men would be reduced to a minimum.
Fourth-Co-operative purchases Of
car lots of salt, coal and other supplies
20 have expense for the individual
creameries.
The convention went on record
unanimously as opposed to a plan to
reduce the tax on oleomargariAe from
10 cents to / cent a pound as is pro-
posed in a bill before Congress. A
resolution to that effect was passed.
Program 10 Adopted.
The program as outlined by the Com
mittee Of Eleven. which was appointed
at the conference OF dairy men in st.
Paul in May, wal adopted in full, with
the exception Of the estimates Of cost
OF 1885, 00.
The state organization will not at
tempt to begin actual supervision of
grading and general direction Of the
creameries for probably six months.
The provision for financing the or
ganization requires each creamery unit
to buy $25 shares for each 100, 900
pounds Of butter manufactured an
nually.
Directors Are Announced.
The board Of directors, composed
solely of butter producers, elected are:
John Brandt OF Litchfeld, first dis
trict; Herman Berg of Rush City, Sec
ond district; William Harpel OF Glen
coe, third district; Frank Farley OF
Spring Grove, fourth district; Charles
Markytan OF Owatonna, fifth district;
Isaac Emerson OF Skyberg, sixth dis.
trict; w. r. Lindyille OF Long Prairie,
seventh district; A. l.. Beigel Of Man.
kato. eighth district. ii. b. Nickerson
OF Elk River. ninth district; C. j. Rath
of Eaton, tenth district; ]. o. Bjork.
lund OF Henning, eleventh district: G.
G. Baker OF Slayton, twelfth district;
G. r. Kirkvold Of Starbuck, thirteenth
district: K. D. Melsness OF Erskine,
fourteenth district, and ". Lockwood
Of Motley, fifteenth district.