The Glenwood post., 1923-11-22

he seems TO be making an ad-
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, land
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 hg-
ures that show that they aren't eco
| nomical."
"They can't make good butter, for
one thing" said Newton Bronson cock
fly.
"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 1t gets rotten on
the way, and they have to renovate 1t
with lime and other ingredients be-
fore they can churn it."
well" said Raymond Simms. II
reckon they sell their butter fo' all it's
wuth; an they CANT get within from
| foah to seven cents q pound as much
TO 1t as the farmers creameries In
Wisconsin and Minnesota get TO-
theirs"
THAT'S fact. Olaf" said JIM
"How do you kids know so darned
much about it?' queried Pete.
"Huh !" shifted Bettina. We've
been reading about it, and writing let
ters about it, and figuring percentages
on it in school all winter. We've done
arithmetic and geography and gram
mar and don't know what else on it."
"Well, I'm agin' any schoolin'," said
Pete, that makes kids smarter in
farmin' than their parents and their
parents hired men. Gi me another
swig O. that lemonade, Jim!"
You see," said Jim to his audience,
meanwhile pouring the lemonade, 1.-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 mikes the
good with the bad. 1t makes such long
| shipments that the cream spoils in
| transit and lowers the quality of the
butter. 1t can't make the best use of
the buttermilk. Al these losses and
leaks the farmers have to stand. l
can prove-and so can the six or
eight pupils in the Woodruff school
who have been working on the cream
question this winterLthat 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."
We'll" said Ezra Bronson, Tets
start one"
"Fll go in," said Olaf Hansen.
ME, too" said Con Bonner
| There was a general chorus df 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 well all sell to the same cream
cry, and get the best we can out of
the centralizers by the cooperative
method We can save two cents a
pound in that way, and 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 failing"
| who'll handle the pool?" inquired
Mr.. Hansen.
wen 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
4, 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 1t very desira-
bic to keep in session with only
weeks vacation. If you'll add the
cream pool it will make the school
the hardest working crowd in the dis
trlct and doing actual farm work, too.
I like Mr.. Bonners suggestion"
well" said Haakon Peterson, who
had Joined the group, "Ay tank we
better have n meeting of the board
and discuss it."
"Well, darn it, said Columbus
Brown, II want in on this cream pool
and l live outside the districtl'
"Well let you in, Cumb," said the
colonel.
"Surel" said Pete I'VE hain't no
more sense than to let any one In,
| Clumb. Come in, the waters fine. We
amt proud"