The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-11-16
Cooperative Creamery
Patrons to Fight Blue
Valley Co, to the Finish

his cream during the period necessary
to kill the cooperative creamery.
He said that if they succeeded ir
putting he Sank Lake Creamery oui
of business it would cost the farmers
in territory adjacent to Sank Centre
at least $4,000 year in the decreased
price would be received for their
dairy product after their creamery has
been eliminated. To prove this state
ment Mr.. Mcclure had had the Chi
cago representative of the Minnesota
Cooperative Crealaeries Company
investigate what the Blue Valley
Company were paying for butter-fat
in states where they had no co-opera-
tive opposition.
On November 18th, the price of but
ter in New York was 40 cents pound;
on this date the Blue Valley Company
paid for butterfat in Chicago, 48 cents
per pound, the farmers paying the
express. In Missouri the farmers
received A cents per pound, in Iowa
46 cents, in Nebraska 44-45 cents, in
Kansas AZ cents and several points in
Illinois 46 cents or an average price
of 46.2 per pound for butter-fat.
AT this point Mr.. Mcclure asked
Buttermaker Mejerton what the Sank
Lake Creamery would pay their pat
rons for the October butter-fat and
he stated that it would not be less
than SO cents per pound.
County Agent Huntemer pledged
the Cooperative Creameries of
Stearns County every possible assist
ance of the Farm Bureau in combat
ing the movement Of the Blue Valley
Company. He said that the farmers
of Western Stearns should be especi-
ally proud Of the product made by the
Sank Lake Creamery; that it had
reached a point where butter can be
manufactured as cheaply and as
efficiently as butter can be made;
that the product of the Sank Lake
GneT2iry commands a price of "New
York Extra in New York.
Mr.. Huntemer stated that he came
to Steans County from South Dakota
about ten years ago and that he re-
called what the centralizers of the
Twin Cities had done to the co-opera-
tive creameries of that state, and
today not more than twenty
cooperative creameries were doing
business in South Dakota. He urged
farmers to recognize the seriousness
of the situation and to stand fast and
support the Cooperative Creameries
of Stearns and Todd Counties shoulder
to shoulder.
DR.. Dubois was the next speaker.
He stated that the double spirit of 10y
atty was demanded and the ultimate
consumers in Sank Centre should back
up the local creamery to man; if
necessary pay higher price to the
Co-operaive creamery for butter.
He called attention to the splendid
financial success maintained by the
Sank Lake Creamery during the past
few years. This success had appealed
to outside capital and now they pro-
posed to come in and take away the
fruits of the labor of the farmers of
this community. He said that no big
business concern was coming to Sank
Centre to aid the people of this COM
munity, but rather to gain control of
the butter market. He said that if any
trust on earth was justified it is a
trust of the producers of the soil.
DIR. Dubois stated it was the duty of
every citizen Of Sank Centre to stand
back of the farmers of this community
and prevent the control of the local
outter-fat market by the Blue Valley
Or any other outside organization.
Mayor VIM. Parker was the next
called on. He stated that he was in
crested in anything that promoted
he welfare of the people of this
section and he deplored any attempt
by outside capital to control the local
outterfat market and he urged the
farmers to keep their creamery, and
light the trust shoulder to shoulder.
lie said that the farm and town men
should work together and urged every |
'itizen of Sank Centre to stand with |
he cooperative creamery in this
light.
F. P. Minette caused considerable
when he stated that five
n six years ago the City Council of !,
Sank Centre would not permit the
Sank Lake Creamery to build their
lew creamery on Main Street between
Third and Fourth Street. He said that
n-as-much as the Blue Valley Com
,any proposed to build their plant on
Main Street he thought it would be
good idea for the City Council to
Keep them off that street if possable.
Mr.. Gallagher, secretary of the
Padua Creamery said that the pro-
posed oooming to Sank Centre of the
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