The Mena weekly star., 1921-08-04
SEE PROSPERITY
 IN DAIRY INDUSTRY
Rally at Twin Gates Farm July % Brought Out Hopeful Ideas From Prominent Polk County Men
 Conference at Hatfield Fair.
To the Editor of The Star.

The Dairy Rally held at Twin Gates
 farm July 29 was success in every
 way. The farmers began gathering
 in before 10 o'clock and by noon we
 had a crowd of 50 or more. Im-
 provised tables were arranged in the
 shade of trees and no one left the
 table hungry.
 By o'clock we had big crowd of
 farmers, anxious listeners to every
 word spoken during the business ses- sion which lasted three hours. The principal speakers being V. Abbott,
 James A. Slote, w. J. Rork and ]. F.. Taylor of Hatfield: M. B. Fried and F. J. Greiner Mir. Abbott dwelt on the
 rapid and substantial increase i'm wealth in his old home in Wisconsin when the dairy business started there. Mir. Slote explained why it was so hard for farm products manufactur- ing industry to dispose of its goods.
 He related his experience in disposing
 of the output of his home cannery. The retailer was afraid to handle it
 because he, the retailer, might be penalized by his wholesaler. The
 wholesaler feared he might be penal
 ized by the broker, and the broker
 did not want to get in bad with the big concerns. The result was he ad- vertised and took the short cut to the consumer.
 w. J. Rork told us of the success and difficulties experienced at his old
 home in the north. He told US how
 the creamery was kept in operation for years How the patrons kept loyal, willingly or unwillingly, for a quitter was penalized, and how the big
 concerns paid two to four cents more than market value for cream, or more than the home concern could pay, de-
 termined to put another small com
 petitor out of business, and at last
 was successful.
 M B. Fried is one of the few actual
 cream producers and shippers of the
 county. His talk was very instruc-
 tive and should have been heard by
 more owners of rough land. He told , of the grasses he grew on the noun tain side, and how he grew them and gave all doubters tthere seemed to be
 some doubters in the crowd), to come to his place and see for themselves, but iii the end he seemed to be able to prove his assertions every time he called on Mir. Dilbeck, another sub stantial and progressive farmer and
 dairyman of Big Fork. While the writer was denied the privilege of hearing all of Mir. Wears talk, we
 noticed he was certainly in earnest. He had his talker in high gear," and among other things, he told of the folly of trying to compete with the prairie farmer, while we had ideal condition for more profitable and
 more certain line of farming. He was in town looking for separator Monday morning Others who. took an active part in the proceedings
 were Mir. Taylor of Corinth, M. Seitz, w. Seitz, Edward Shinn and Mir. Cory
 of Ransom. Miss Katherine Clause favored us with very good reeita- | tion after dinner. And F. J. Greiner of Golden Rule farm used the Babcock | tester, showing the per cent of butter l fat in samples of milk brought for l that purpose, and demonstrated the sure way to tell whether a cow was
 really an asset or liability. A few general notations may not be amiss l here. While you will note the speak
 CTS all recognized the little difficulties
 we may meet in entering the dairy
 business here, it was not with feel | ing or in a tone of despondency. They
 were merely mentioned and passed by as something to be overcome and to man in the crowd who. like the writer. hope the result of these meetings will be transformation of farming l methods in this county, the talks made were encouraging, even an inspira-
 tion.. 1 saw no one at the meeting 1 that looked like business or pro- fessional man except Judge Prickett and very few farmers who looked like old settlers. Those who were there
 did not look like nor talk like they had been shipwrecked and were grasping l for straws, but rather like those who had been braveiy weathering the storms of life in unsuitable craft, and were shifting to a staunch and de- pendable boat, sure of reaching the shores of the land of prosperity and happiness, because there are cream cans aboard for life savers. Climb onl l I have letter before me from K. 1 0. Yeakey of Hatfield, who was a
 very much interested farmer at our meeting, stating that the managers
 of the Hatfield fair had set the hour of 1:30 Thursday, August II, for spe- cial dairy meeting. This is another chance to help put 1t over.' Don't fail. I believe now we all know we can and will produce cream. How
 shall we market it7 Will We sell to
 the local buyer or ship to the central izing points direct, or put up a "stock
 eompany" creamery, or induce but
 ter-maker with an agreement with
 the grocers to handle no other butter as long as home product was stand I'd. substituting the project if necess ry to locate here or ferret out some other plan or just lie down? Think this over well for the next ten days.
 If I have omitted anything, know l will be forgiven