Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1922-08-30
|CREANlERlE FACE
, 7. new COMPETITION
Cooperation Made Minnesota
Greatest Dairy State, Says
:: MCGUIRE
(By A. J. McGuire)

fOr 20 years MINNESOTA mas Deen
recognized as the greatest butter
state in the Union. Minnesota won
this distinction chiefly thru the quail
ity of butter produced. Minnesota has
made high quality butter because of
its 600 cooperative creameries.
Other states built cooperative
creameries at the same time Mime
= sofa was building it's creameries, but
creameries have been largely killed
off. In Minnesota they have survived,
but they are by no means safe.
twenty-five years ago the co-opera-
tive creameries manufactured prac-
tically all the butter that was made in
Minnesota. At the present time there
are $4,000 cream stations scattered
thruout the state and owned by the
centralizers.
The centralized system is what kill
ed off the cooperative creameries in
other states and they are now making
every effort possible to get control Of
the butter industry in Minnesota. To
this end one Of the largest centralizers
in the United States has announced
it's plan to establish sweet cream
creameries in Minnesota. It is doing
this in order to be able to compete
with the cooperative creameries on
the New York and Philadelphia mar
kets where the consumers demand
high quality butter. The centraMzers
have practically all the other butter
markets of the United States, and
they are now making a drive to get
these two important markets.
The establishment of sweet cream
creameries in Minnesota by the CEN
tralizers is putting into effect the most
dangerous weapon the farmers cream
cries have yet had to go against. The
cooperative creameries in Minnesota
have kept in the lead because they
have made better butter than the CEN
tralizers; but now, with the central
izers taking the field for high quality
will have to put forth exceptional ef-
fort to hold the ground that they have
made during the past Is years.
The Minnesota Cooperative Cream
cries Association, Inc, has seen this
competition coming, and, fortunately,
for the creameries, it is prepared to
meet it; 1876 cooperative creameries
have become members of the state as
ISOLATION, and through this combined
power they are going to be able to
wage a successful battle.
The association has organized the
whole state with the exception of but
five counties. During the flush, June
and July, ~ cars of butter were ship
ped weekly on which there was a net
saving of $3.50 car.
The association has a New York
Office for the distribution of the but
ter, and thru this office as high as IA
cars of butter have been distributed
in day. The association has been
successful financially from the begin
ming. It has never been a dollar in
debt, and the $4,000 that has been
paid in by the 1886 member creamer-
les in capital. stock is practically all
in the treasury of the association,
making the capital stock worth 100
cents on the dollar. The association is
financially able to take up any work
the member creameries want to have
done.
In Is national buttermakers' con-
tests, the buttermakers in the Mime
sofa cooperative creameres have won
10 times. There is national contest
on again this fall in connection with
the National Dairy Show, October 9
to IL at the state fair grounds.
1t is highly important that the Min,
. nesota cooperative creameries should
win the national banner again this
fall, and to assist in this important
work the Minnesota Cooperative
Creameries Association is offering
$500 in cash, to be pro-rated among