Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-03-11
WOULD LIKE TO HAVE
PUBLIC TAX DEBATE
Editor News-Budget

EulIOf NeWS-btuSct
The letters published in the News
Budget under the caption. The Voice
of the People" are very interesting.
l am voicing the opinion of a good
many people in this neck of the woods,
who would he glad of an oppor-
tunity to listen to a debate by Mr..
Miller. who says those who make ,he
most of the noise about high taxes
don't know what they are talking
about. and other county dads and some
member or members of the tax rcduc-
ton league. | can assure You, if prop
erly advertised. they will not have to
talk to empty seats.
Now. Mr.. Editor. | want to write
on an entirely different subject than
taxes that is the n0n-SuppOrt by a
good many farmers of the cooperative
crpameries and cheese factories. !
believe that is Il subject as important
to the people Of RuSk county as the
question Of tax reduction.
How any farmer can pass by his CO.
operative creamery and sell his but
tcrfat to the centraliZer at Il distinct
loss is beyond me. | recently heard Il
man say that he could sell his cream
ut the cream station, even II II was
rotten. and if he patrOniZcd the cream
cry lie would have to fuss around with
it and keep it sweet, and. after tax
ing a deep breath delivered himself OF
the following-''I get a better test
tIt.,n
cream. anyway.
Also. it is true that there are still
people who believe that YOU can take
sweet cream. and by leaving it stand
around in kitchen, bedroom. or cellar
until it becomes sour and putrl1led
YOU can add to the percentage OF but
tprfat. all experiments to the con-
trary Notwithstanding.
Now it does not follow that because
one man sells bad cream that all 9th
crs that sell to the centraliZcr do the
same In fact. Il lot Of them deliver
i'm excellent quality. All the more
reason they should take it to the
creamery.
Now. brother farmers. would it not
pay YOU to take Il little extra care OF
Your cream. deliver it To your cream
cry in 4 sweet ana wholesome condl-
ton and get from five to eight cents Il
pound more for your butterfat?
Just stop to figure little. Take say
six COWS that will make 10 pounds OF
buttcrfat each in a year and you get
six cents pound more; that would be
500. TO say nothing Of all the good hllt-
tcrmilk YOU would save, which IN IT.
self. is no small item.
Did | hear someone remark that the
LadySmith creamery is not paying
from ) to cents a pound more for put
tprfat than our local cream stations
Right YOU are. but | am willing to
wager that if the LadySmith creamery
would get -. yes 80 per cent. OF the
cream in good condition. that Is
Skinned out Of LadySmith during the
wear. we would he getting better than
Xix cents more Il pound. In the corn
belt the farmers consider the hay the
MORTGAGE litter. but we of RuSk colln-
~ must look to the dairy cow to pay
oar mortgages. 50 it behOOycS us to GET
every cent out of her products that we
possibly can by boosting for and par
ronizing onr cooperative creamefles
and cheese factories.
In conclusion let me say. we should
remember that the principle OF cooper
alton gives to every man the right to
a full voice in the management OF the
affairs of the business. 1t provides
that only reasonable rate OF interest
shall be paid on the money invested
in the business and it provides that
all profits shall be distributed on q
patronage basis.
The farmer who can not recognize
the great value of his cooperative
creamery or cheese factory and Will
not use it should not complain of poor
treatments of other markets.
GEORGE EDEN.
IatlySmith. Wis. March I, 1921.