The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-05-22

where in these demonstrations, Mr..
Nickel says. In East Ottertail,
County Agent Charles Kelehan fol-
lowed up the demonstrations with a
five-day campaign, every township in
his territory being visited.
One-eighth ounce Of powdered
strychnia alkaloid, one-eighth ounce
baking soda, and one-eighth ounce
saccharin, properly mixed, is suffic-
lent to poison four quarts of vegeta-
BILE bait, says Mr.. Nickel. Potatoes,
carrots, parsnips, beets, and turnips
make especially good bait when cut
into small cubes and sifted over with
the poison. A druggist at Fergus
Falls has begun putting up the poison
in small handy packages for the
wholesale and retail trade.
Mr.. Nickel has prepared an exhibit
showing the usual system of runways
constructed by the pocket gopher and
giving complete directions for putting
out the poison. Tools needed and
samples of alfalfa plants severed by
the pest are also shown. The exhibit
will be set up in store windown in
towns in Redwood, Swift, Stevens,
Anoka, Chisago, Houston, Fillmore,
Cottonwood, Blue Earth, LeSueur,
Pipestone, and various other coun-
ties.
In the, last issue of the Sank Cen
tire Herald the Blue Valley Creamery
company in a large advertisement re-
fers to recent item in this depart
ment in which the butterfat prices
paid during January and February
by centralizers at four or five differ
EN- places in Iowa were quoted.
These prices we're considerably be-
low the prices paid by cooperative
creameries in Todd county. We
stated that this is the usual condi-
ton where the centralizer controls
the market and pointed out that if
Todd county farmers wanted to con-
tinue receiving the high prices for
butterfat which they have received
since the establishment of the coop
erative creameries, that it was to
their interest to see that the coop
1erative creameries are maintained
and nothing is done to undermine
them so as to enable any centralizer
concern to secure control of the Todd
county butterfat market. In. it's
advertisement the Blue Valley conf
pany takes exception to the item and
states that the prices quoted as being
paid by the Iowa centralizers were
not Blue Valley prices and that the
Blue Valley regularly pays more than
the Iowa centralizer prices quoted.
The Leaders farm department has
made a more or less exhaustive study
of centralizer market conditions anu
it has found that wherever the CEN
tralizers control the butterfat market
that the prices are lower than in
those localities where the co-opera-
tive creameries either have a foot
hold or control. In other words, we
have found that if the cooperative
creamery EXISTS in the neighborhood
and is strong enough to cut any tig-
ure whatever, that the centralizer
prices measure up with those of tie
CO. operative creamery, and that as
soon as the cooperative creamery is
closed and the centralizer comes to
control the market, that the prices
drop down below what cooperative
creameries in similar neighborhoods
are regularly paying at the time.
l0dC was Tile SLdC6IllSIlC we IIlduc anu
the conclusion we drew in the item to
which the Blue Valley company now
refers.
We believe that our statement is
true and that the history of central;<-
err operations justifies it. We have no
desire to be unfair to the Blue Val
lev company, but the facts are its is
a centralizer plant with a CENTRAL ger
record. 1t is invading the co-opera-
tive creamery field, a field that is
beng fully and adequately covered
by the cooperative creamefl,5, al
it enters the field without there be-
ing the slightest den and for it. 1t is
tt crefore butte--i'l and so far as
p.sFing a sweet cream product is
accrued, can manufactlr, such
tutter only by growing az 5he ex
pense of the local creamerie; We do
know that wherever the certr:llizerS
have gained control of the butterfat
market, the prices have gone down.
The centralizer figures we quoted
from Iowa merely illustrated the