Grand Forks herald., 1922-06-10
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CREAM ERIES ON
BET ) ! ! ] Ter ! ! !. BASIS
Loose = 3 Business orga1liza.
tons Of Old Day Seem to
Have Gone Out. \.

Bismarck, n. d., June 1O.-Few Of
North Dakota's creamery organixa-
uons nave been in existence Tor twen-
" years; many changes in the busi-
ness nave occurred in the last leh
years and the stock company, which
was the popular form of promotion
OF Just q decade ago has almost pa sas
ed from the ken Of North Dakota'S 3
dairy organizations. IS \
In the place of the stock company,
Iour of the present creameries;3 are
! partnerships, twenty-seven4 are owned
I by individuals and twenty-seven are
corporations. The latter title is not
a veil for the stock companies Of q
i lew years ago, but is q title Of a well
ordered set OF business institutions,
FIFTY Of the present creameries
make butter and fifty-one. make ice
e cream these two being the manufac-
turing activities listed sin the 1922
North Dakota creamery directory.
twenty eight sell eggs. twenty-five
sell poultry and fifteen are listed as
selling milk. l a
The distribution OF these fifty-eight
running .creameries places one 4 or
more each Of thirty-three North Da-
kota counties. Morton and Cass
counties lead with, five creameries
each, and Richland, Grand Forks.
= Mclean and Williams are next with
three each. III
20 Twenty Years Ago.
Twenty years ago, in 1902, accord
ing to the directory Of that year the
/ state had twenty-eight creameries. In
to indicate that there has been q
continuing organization for the score
Of years. Morton was again one Of
the high counties of the state, that
: county and Sargent having nine
creameries each. Rchland had three,
Stark two, and Oliver. LaMoure.
Dickey, Wells and Caas one each.
Ten other creameries are listed in
the report of that time with the in
1 formation that the Organizations had
been formed and the machinery, pur-
: chased. OF this early time list of
4 creameries, twenty-three Of the total
( of thirty eight, including the organ
lied but not running creamerfes,
twenty-three are listed as stock con-
Germs.
70 in 1919.
The year 1912, witnessed a state
with seventy-nine creanieries,, probably
the largest number the state has ever
Z had. This year was just at the end
4 of the promotion Of stock company
creameries and sixty-six Of the num-
per are listed as stock concerns. This
time Morton county has an undisput-
ed lead in. the largest number of
creameries with eleven. Oliver had
7 six. Cass five, McHenry and Ward
( four each. Eight counties that had
creameries ten.years ago are not list
h ed in the directory of the present
year, while Bottineau, Dunn, Eddy,
/ Foster, Pierce and Ransom, some OF
!. which supported creameries twenty
/. years ago are back in the list with
butter factories. OF have erected new
creameries. ~ s55, ne
Ffint's Name Is Old One. T,
!. The name ef the present dairy
! commissioner is the only one Found in
all three Of the directories. 2 In the
one OF 1902, twenty years ago, Rob
ert f.. Flint is the first name In the
list Of buttermakers holding that po-
sition for the New Salem Butter
Manufacturing. company. His name
is upon the cover of the 1912 and the
1922 directory as dairy commissioners.
Mr.. Flint has been with the North
Dakota Creamery movement from the
beginning, as he started the first
Salem district. In discussing the
changes of the twenty years, Mr.
Flint expressed the opinion that the
creameries which were continuing to
make money were the small cream
cries, with local. trade, dealing in q
number of commodities, and with q
localized outside trade for their sur
plus. and the other type, the larger
creamery with capital enough and
territory enough to produce large
amounts and make extensive market
connections ~ sH54