The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-11-09
IN SPEECH
OFFERS UP ADVICE
II. r. Meyer Spoke To
Creamery Men
PUSH UP THE SALES
That Must Be Done BY Mime
sofa Association; Future
Prospects

Importance Of new outlets for the
marketing sweet cream butter made
by the cooperative creameries of
this state was, one Of the principal
topics of discussion at a meeting OF
the directors of cooperative cream
cries Of Blue Earth county and part
OF lie Sueur county held at the Man
kato State Bank building yesterday
Afternoon. A. L. Veigel, vice presi-
dent of the Minnesota Creameries
association, presided at the meet
ing, and II. E. Salisbury Of Amboy
secretary of district number eight
acted as secretary.
Mr.. Veigel told of the success OF
the state association, which had
done at least half a million dollars
worth of business in the past SIX
months.
II. F. Meyer, marketing expert OF
the Minnesota Creameries assoc1a :
ton. was the principal speaker at
the meeting. In opening his. talk,
Mr.. Meyer said that the selling OF
the butter is the weakest part oil
the creamery business today. Mr..
Meyer was for several years at the
head of butter concern in New
York city, the largest consumers
ed operative butter in the world.
q. u. Movers speech "a part was
"The grocery store and the
butcher shop are the ultimate out
let for butter as it is there the con-
sumner goes to purchase his sup
plies. The Minnesota Co operative
Creameries manufacture the finest
kind of creamery butter. One hun
dred thirty million pounds of butter
manufactured in COO D e tive
creameries, ninety million pounds OF
good table butter The creameries
are not seeking new outlets for
their butter but are shipping ninety
FIVE per cent to New York and Phil
adelphia They are Increasing their
output but are not seeking new out
lets. There is so much butter going
to New York that it is necessary to
reship TO other towns.
When Prices Went Down
"Last spring the New York mar
ket was flooded with butter in May
sending prices down to 35 cents a
| mound. This Is Just the time when
the farmer should be getting the
largest profits and this extreme dror
in price each year can be prevented
by better distribution. I venture to
predict that unless immediate steps
are taken to open up new markets
the price of butter will go below
thirty cents in New York next spring
when the great increase comes
when cows go on pasture.
"Of New York's population OF be-
tween six and seven million, about
one half are Jews and these people
use unsalted butter. New York and
Chicago make the price for butter.
in fact one man. Mr.. Taber who
has been on the New York exchange
for a long time, probably forty
years. determines the market. There
is a blackboard on one side of the
room and the price for extras is
only twenty-five tubs are sold but
loads. Extras is the standard. The
price on extras is always below the
MARKET. The price on extras in New
York is broad casted the eworld
over. Chicago deals in standards
This is ninety score butter and
the price is determined by the CEN
tralizer.
No Quotations On Sweet Cream
Butter
There are no quotations On sweet
cream butter Only comparatively a
few people know what Is meant by
sweet cream butter. When once a
quotation is secured for sweet
cream butter and this quotation Is
hroadcasted the works over as is
the price on extras the price on
sweet cream butter will be five cents
or more than is mid for extras.
"The score in New York and Chi
cago depends on the supply. II there
is a large supply the score is low. II
the demand exceeds the supply the
score is high.
"The interstate commerce COM
mission in a recent report say that
butter is the most profitable COM
modify handled by the railroads. At
the present time the CO operative
creameries are paying $1.55 per hun
dred on butter going east to New
York, philadelphia and other cities.
The centralizer at Paynesville up in
Northwestern Minnesota has been
getting a rate for sometime of ST ~
per hundred to Boston. Is this fair?
The cooperative creamery associa :
ton does not think so and has
brought to the attention of the rail
roads that last year cooperative
creameries shipped 5000 cars of but
ter and 1000 cars on eggs. An i'm
mense volume of business. The rail
roads threw up their hands at first
when the facts were brought to their
attention but have reconsidered the
matter and the co operative cream
cries will undoubtedly get reduc-
tion of twenty-eight cents a hun
fr..s;.,,.d ~ SosoA ~