Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-08-30
RURAL ACTIVITIES AND NEWS n
OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER
CREAMERIES FACE
new COMPETITION.
Cooperation Made Mim1esota Greatest
Dairy State, Says Mcclure
Now Threatened
1 BY A. ]. Mcclure

D6Ay OUSbUo, says NACUu1TC ~
Now Threatened
BY A. J. Mcguire 2<@
For 25 years Minnesota has been
recognized as the greatest butter state
in the Union. Minnesota won this dis
tinction chiefly thru the quality of
butter produced: Minnesota has made
high quality butter because of it's 600
cooperative creameries. :. :. ~
Other states built cooperative
-creameries at the same time Mime
sofa was building it's creameries, but
in the other states the cooperative
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 practic-
ally all the butter that was made in
Minnesota. At the present time there
are 1000 cream stations scattered
throughout the state and owned by
the centralizers.
The centralized system is what
killed off the cooperative creameries
in other states and they are now max
ing every effort possible to get control
of the butter industry in Minnesota.
To this end one Of the largest cen
tralizers in the United States has an
nounced it's plan to establish sweet
cream creameries in Minnesota. 1t is
doing this in order to be able to COM
pete with the cooperative creameries
on the New York and PHILADELPHIA
markets where the consumers demand
high-quality butter. The centralizers
have practically all the other butter
markets of the United States, and they
are now making drive to get these
two important markets.
The establishment or 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
1zers taking the field for high-quality
butter, the cooperative creameries
will have to put forth exceptional eff
fort to hold the ground that they have
made during the past 25 years.
The Minnesota Cooperative Cream
cries Association, Inc, has seen this
competition coming, and, fortunately.
AoA IAC NACduCllcS, IL Is prepared 10
meet it; 335 cooperative creameries
have become members of the state. as
ISOLATION, and through this combined
power they are going to be able to
wage successful battle
The association has organized the
whole state with the exception of but
five counties. During the flush, June
and July, y cars Of butter were
shipped weekly on which there was
net saving Of $3.50 car.
The association has a New York
Office for the distribution of the but
ter, and through this Office as high
as IA cars of butter have been dis
tributed i'll a, day. The association
has been successful financially from
the beginning. 1t has never been
dollar in debt, and the $4,000 that
has been paid in by the 1886 member
creameries in capital stock is prac-
tically all in the treasury of the asso-
citation, 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 creameries have won
IL times. There is a national contest
on again this fall in connection with
the National Dairy Show, October 81
to IA 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
Sreameries Association is Offering $500
in cash, to be pro-rated among the
creamery operators whose butter
scores IS Or above at the National
Dairy Show.
Dairy farmers as well as the cream
cry operators should be interested in
the winning of the national banner
1t will not only mean valuable adj
vertising for their product, but it will
result i'm a higher price for all the
butter produced in the state.
When the little cooperative creamery
in Southern Minnesota exhibited but
ter at the Worlds Fair in Paris
number of years ago and won the first
prize in competition with the whole
world, that one stroke of good work
>on the part of the creamery operator
may be said to have brought hundreds
Of thousands Of dollars to Minnesota.
It made Minnesota Cooperative
Creamery butter known as the best
butter in the world. We must keep
this reputation. s s@s%
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