The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-11-28

sen, a fiaxen-haired young Brunhilde
of seventeen, and Calista Simms-
Jennie saw him do 1t, while listening TO
Wilbur Smythe's account of the ex-
acting nature of the big law practice
he was building up-and would have
been glad to exchange places with
Bettina.
The repast drew to a close; and over
by the burt oak the crowd had grown
to a circle Surrounding Jim Irwin.
II seems to be making am adj
Dress" said Wilbur Smythe.
well, Wilbur" replied the colonel.
you had the first shot at us. Suppose
we move over and see what's under
discussion"
As they approached the group, they
heard Jim Irwin answering something
which Ezra Bronson had said.
You think so, Ezra" said he, "and
it seems reasonable that big cream
cries like those at Omaha, Sioux City.
Des Moines and the other centralizer
points can make butter cheaper than
we would do here-but we've the fig
ures that show that they aren't eco
nomical."
They can't make good butter, for
one thing said Newton Bronson cock
lily.
why can't they?" asked Olaf Han
sen, the father of Bettina.
"Well," said Newton, they have to
have so much cream that they've got
to ship it so far that it gets rotten on
tAo -o- o1I tb1,- ha,.1 - o.ao,o@ t.
with lime and other ingredients be-
fore they can churn It,"
well" said Raymond Simms, 81
reckon they sell their butter fo' all it's
with an they CANT get within from
foah to seven cents a pound as much
TO- it as the farmers creameries In
Wisconsin and Minnesota get TO
theirs"
"That's a fact. Olaf" said Jim.
How do yo1 kids know so darned
much about it," queried Pete.
Huh !" shifted Bettina. we've
been reading about it, and writing let
tiers about it, and figuring percentages
on it in school all winter. We've don
arithmetic and geography and gram
mar and l don't know what else on It."
We'll, I'm agin' any %schoolin'." said
Pete, that makes kids smarter in
farmin' than their parents and their
parents hired men. Cir me another
swig o. that lemonade, JIM"
You see," said Jim to his audience,
meanwhile pouring the lemonade, the
centralizer creamery Is uneconomic In
several ways. 1t has to pay excessive
transportation charges. 1t has to pay
excessive commissions to its cream
buyers. 1t has to accept cream with
out proper inspection, and mixes the
good with the bad. 1t makes such long
shipments that the cream spoils in
transit and lowers the quality of the
butter. It can't make the best use of
the buttermilk. All these losses and
leaks the farmers have TO stand. /
can prove-and so can the six or
eight pupils in the Woodruff school
who have been working on the cream
question his winter-that we could
make at least six cents a pound on
our butter if we had a cooperative
creamery and all sent our cream to it."
r Well said Iha 5RyaFsoA iaett
start one.'
"T1l go in," said Olaf Hansen.
me, too" said Con Bonner.
There was a general chorus of as
sent. Jim had Convinced his audience.
Hes got the jury" said Wilbur
Smythe to Colonel Woodruff.
YES said the colonel, land right
here is where he runs into danger.
Can he handle the crowd when it's
with him?'
well" said Jim, 81 think we ought
to organize one, but I've another
proposition first. Let's get together
and pool our cream. By that, 1 mean
that we'll all sell to the same cream
cry, and ger the best we can out of
the ~centralizers by the cooperative
method. We can save two cents a
pound in that way, aud Wen learn to
cooperate. When we have found
just how well we can hang together,
Wen be able to take up the co-opera-
tive creamery, with less danger of
falling apart and falling"
who'll handle the pool?" inquired
Mr. Hansen.
We'll handle it in the school," an
swered jim.
Schools about DONE" objected Mr..
Bronson.
won't the cream pool pretty near
pay the expenses of running the school
all summer" asked Bonner.
1--WE ought to run the School plant
all the time" said Jim. Its the only
way to get full value of the invest
ment. And we've corn-club work, pig
club work, poultry work and canning
club work which make it very desira-
Bile to keep in session with only a
weeks vacation. If you'll add the
cream pool. it will make the school
the hardest working crowd in the dis
trict and doing actual farm work. 90.
I like Mr.. Bonner's suggestion"
"Well," said Haakon Peterson, who
had Joined the group, cay tank we
better have a meeting of the board
and discuss it,"
well, darn it," said Columbus
Brown, Il want in on this cream pool
and l live outside the district !"
We'll let you in, Clumb," said the