The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-07-21
DAIRY INDUSTRY IN
THESTATEGROWING
PEAK IN BUTTER PRoDUC-
TON REACHED
STATISTICS FOR 1921
Total Number Pounds Made
During That Year Reach
ed 69,574,872 Pounds

st. Paul, July '1S.-Minnesota's
dairy industry which several years
ago passed the toddling stage, has
grown by leaps and bounds until it
has reached the peak in butter pro-
duction, with many of her former
contenders left at the starting line,
reports for 1921 production prepar-
dairy and food commissioner, dis
close.
The butter production for tho
year 1921, the reports show, totaled
169,574,S72 pounds. This amount
was churned by the states S21
creameries, whose trade area ex-
tended into every corner of the
state and churns the production Of
1,152,S Gods.
The ever increasing production
and the trend of Minnesota farm
ers to dairying is shown In COM
parative figures, which show that
In the year previous, by some called
a banner year, the butter produc-
ton reached 139 .229. 843 pounds and
the total number Of cows furnishing
this product for the churu was l.
097, SCI.
The industry numbers 127,031 pa
irons, who patronize the 831 cream
cries of the state and furnish the
cream which makes possible the
production of this vast amount o.
golden product. The total number
of patrons serving creameries q
yaRr ago was given at 1861.
What Patrons Received.
Patrons received $57, 81, 301. 81 for
their product, while creameries re-
ceived $65,S05,S69.24 for the finish
ed product. The average paid by
the creameries to the patrons TOR
butter fat was 41.93 cents the pound,
while the average received for out.
ter by the creameries was $3.50
The report further shows that
during 1921 the state produced 49,
342, 005 pounds of milk, as compar-
ed with 167,75S,9 92 pounds a yeal
previous; 465;454,52S pounds OF
cream compared to 339,541,316
pounds in 1920, while the total num-
Der of pounds of butterfat was 49,
SS5,00S, compared with lis, ,039
pounds the year previous.
Of the total number of cream
cries in the state, 645 are managed
under farmers cooperative meth
DDS, 139 are classified as Indepen-
dents and AZ are cenTalier plants.
for the most part found in the larg
er centers of the state. Centraliz
ers, accor| ing to officials of the
dairy ar1 food commission, are
those plants which receive their
raw material through shipment,
f~c-, outlying districts. The co OPP
n~~t've creameries. and some OF the
;" =. c7Cent receive their cream
81, direct from the farmer -liv-
ius in the immediate vicinity.
Output Cooperative Creameries
Co. operative creameries produced
112,303,760 pounds of butter of the
total production reported for which
they received $44,759,626.S5 or an
average of SO. IS cents pound:
Centralizers produced 4o,S09,39S
of butter for which they re-
ceived SIS ,262,57767 or an average
of 37.49 pound. Independent
produced 16, 561,774
pounds during the same period.
Although the producer and the
creamery alike received less for
their butter than In 1920. dairy and
food officials explained that the
percentage of profit was greater in
1921 than in the previous year. This
for the most part is due to the TACT
that feed prices slumped so materi-
ally during that period. Labor also
was a determining factor in bring
ing the percentage of earnings for
the producers to high level.