Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-01-27
FARMERS AND
BUSINESS MEN
Meet and Discuss Creamery Sit
uation.-Talk on Business
Methods

The meeting of the creamery board
and business men at the Chamber OF
Commerce rooms Thursday was at
tended by A. A. MADDEN. L. {. SteuDs,
\. II. Plant, e. E. Grieshammer. Matt
Uaasl. Thorwald Ditmanson. l.. e.
Streatcr and Leo Schoepf
The meeting was called to see what
cnnld he done to improve the conditions
Of the cream and feed business or the
concern. Mr.. Streater said that ne
thought the creamery could get lot
more business if they went after II
right, than they are now getting, ana
ideas of lettering the business were
discussed.
Mr.. Steubs said that the butter made
last summer was 10 per cent No. ], out
in the winter it was not up to that
standard.
He stated that if the company could
yet reasonable profit on the feed they
sold and get the money for 1t they
,.ould recover their losses. This ne
said depended on how stiff the conpe-
tition would be in both feed selling
and cream buying.
He brought out the fact that tney
had 10 have all kinds Of feed TO supply
the trade and the buying was done IN
car lots. The hauling Of feed ls only
40 cents per ton when 1t could COST
half as much to put if from the car III
10 warehouse beside the track. 10
h,1c,i
creamery would necesstatc the rent
ing Of a warehouse which would add
500 to SD per month TO the expense
ue stated that one could ship car
nf corn here from Iowa and sell from
the car i'm bulk for cash AT less expense
thsn il could be handled. bagged, from
It warehouse in small lots that the
farmer could handle. In handling as
they are they must pay a midd!eman
bcsides the freight, which added 10
the cost. Then. holding feed costs
money. but il must be done to help the
farmer with small means. Many farm
ers have neither room nor money 10
lnIy even Il ton of feed nj Il time ana
they must he taken care or
He nuofed one item of where man
had q car Of corn at Tony in which he
had 10000 left. Mr.. Stcubs bought 1t
Ms he had some corn IN stock a a hlgh-
or price, and wanted 70 equalIze the
pricc down and not have the compe-
titiou of the car coming here lie
thought the freight from Tony would
be about $1,000 but when he got the
bill ii was $1,000. All Of those things
must be figured in a business.
\ wear ago when the slump came
cream buyers IN the city gave UP h'lF-
ING. for awhile When they started IN
again they didn't crowd 50 hard fof
business as formerly. but rather TOOK
what they could get without boosting
the price. 1t that he thought they
were not making much money on the
cream they bought here
Mr. Streater said that the creamery
was Il big thing to the community anu
that the business men wanted 70 see
II Succpcd. He said he had always ad-
yocated having the creamery run sep
orate from the feed business ana
thought it would be much better 10
have ii in different building ana with
separate management. They should
get capital behind it and go after the
business on business basis, as ne
thought that as long as they had the
two together they would have the same
problem to confront
II was brought out that some farm
crs who owed the creamery for feed,
dodgnd the creamery and sold to 0ther
huycrs for cash Selling on too close
margin and not following the market
mn as feed raised in price ieft them
without recourse when feed dropped,
and they had TO follow the price down
10 meet competition.
Then again some men who nave al
ways paid regularly got hard up ana
could not buy.
Mr.. Steubs says the trouble started
when corn sold for $500 per cwt and
was fed to hogs that later sold for 1o
cents per pound dressed.
The subject of advertising was
brought out, and A. A. Hadden stated
mat they put ON an advertising cam
oaign a year ago which had greatly
increased their sales OF butter locally