The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1921-06-23
TITO Kennewick Cooperative Cream
ery


Feeling that the life of the Kenne-
rick Cooperative Creamery. Is essen
t;aI TO the best interests of the pro
Jncer and consumer, the county farm
bureau directors at the June meetinq.
uassed a resolution endorsing a cam.
ppaiSn being waged to keep that insti-
f,tion in operation.
The resolution further urges all the
farmers within the boundaries Of this
county to come to the aid OF the
creamery by giving it patronage at
once. Attention is called to the fact
that the principle of competition is
Of stake and should the Kennewick
creamery cease to operate, so, also,
will competition cease to operate
among the private buyers of butter
fat in this county.
The Kennewick Cooperative Cream
erv is a county institution inasmuch
as it sends it's trucks out over a forty
mile radius to collect cream from the
PRODUCERS of the county. 1t is one of
the best equipped plants of its size
N the state and can manufacture dairy
products at as low cost rs any, pro-
yyided it is able to operate somewhere
near to it's capacity. During the past
wear the amount of product handled
has shrunken, thereby raising the
overhead costs per unit of product
handled.
Wages
The June meeting of the directors
nassed resolution requesting the
hoard of county commissioners, the
boards of directors of the various ir-
ripation districts, school boards and
other public directorates employing
labor, to establish as near as possible
4 uniform labor wage scale.
It is further requested that these
boards, in the interest of public pol
lev and particularly in the interest of
harmony between farmers ana farm
labor, pay a daily or hourly wage
which will conform as near as possible
to the wage scale of the Eenton Coun-
ty Farm Bureau.
A bureau committee on wages, ap-
pointed last spring, made the follow
ing recommendation for an average
farm wage
Forty dollars a month with board
and room for services in the irrigated
sections. Fifty dollars a month with
board and room in the dry or grain
sections. For short time work the
rate is thirty cents per hour or three
dollars per day without board. Twen-
ty cents per hour or two dollars per
day is the rate for the services of
team.
These rates were not offered as a
maximum or minimum but as good
average with the exception that re-
liable and competent workers would
be paid an increase according to the
value of their services.
It is the plan of the bureau to re-
consider the wage scale at a special
meeting in the near future with a view
to a possible revision of the scale for
the last half of the year. Il
Fruit Crop Estimates
: A survey of the county is being
made by the bureau to obtain care
ful estimate of the seasons fruit crop.
Besides being of value to the fruit
growers of the county in the market
ing Of their crops, this is a step on
the part of the county bureau to work
IN accord with the program of the
National Farm Bureau Federation to
obtain reliable crop estimates through
Its own agencies at such time, and in
such form as 70 lie of most value to
the farmers both in planting and in
marketing crops.
Last winter the farmers of the Yak
ina Valley, through the Farmers
BUSINESS Clubs, made a survey of the
hay and potatoes on the farms in the
valley and were remarkably success
ful in getting an accurate and quick
check which was of considerable val
ne to those who took advantage of
the information. The farm bureau ex-
poets to carry on work of crop report
ing so that it may be of increasing
value to. the producer.