The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-05-22
LOCAL CREAMERY TO
MAKE NAVY BUTTER
SAUK LAKE COOPERATIVE ONE
OF FIVE IN MINNESOTA
SELECTED
START MAKING MAY 28
BUTTER TO BE SHIPPED WEEK.
LY UNDER LAND O. LAKES"
BRAND

will be used by the United States
Navy, starting with the making of
May 18th. Recently the Minnesota
Cooperative Creameries Association,
Inc, received the 1924 contract from
the navy department which calls for
450, 1000 pounds or more of creamery
butter per month. Under the speci-
fications, this butter must score 95
or better It will be interesting to
Herald readers to know that only
two creameries north of Minneapolis
have been designated by the Cream
cry Association to manufacture for
the navy. One is the Sank Lake
creamery of this city and the other
the Bertha creamery Of Todd coun-
ty.
The following is part Of the
Navy departments specifications in
regard to it's navy butter:
"Shall be Fresh Butter, made from
Fresh Pasturized Cream (held at
temperature of 145 degrees F. for rs
minutes, or at 176 degrees F. for an
instant), none of which shall contain
or shall have contained more than
0.234 percent of acid"
0udll NC oLIlCIly VI Tile I1lSlleSG
Grade of Creamery Butter, at least
two-thirds of which must score on
the basis of Sweet Cream Butter, not
less than 95 and the rest not less than
"a when made"
In order for the Sank Lake Cream
cry to manufacture this high quality
Of butter, for the government the
patrons of the local creamery must
comply with the following:
1. Deliver the cream perfectly
sweet.
2. Deliver the cream before II
o'clock A. M.
8. The. cream should test % per
cent or higher.
For butterfat reaching the above
specifications and used in the manu-
facture of Navy butter, the patrons
will receive a premium of &c per
pound above the regular price which
is paid for butterfat going into the
regular channel of marketing.
This butter will be packed in five
pound tin cans and sealed under the.
new brand "Land O. Lakes" recently
adopted by the Minnesota Co-opera-
tive Creamery Association. Mr.. G..
R. Campbell, of the Dairy Division
of the navy, will arrive in Sank Cen
tire, May 9th and remain in Sank
Centre during the life of the con-
tract with the government super
wise the making Of the butter to be
used by the Navy and to see that it
comes up to the required specifica-
tons. The butter will be shipped di-
rect to Norfolk, Va, and San Fran
cisco. This is the first time in the
history of Navy butter that Mime
sofa has the honor of supplying the
Pacific coast fleet.
The officers, directors, Buttermak-
er Axel Mejerton and patrons of the
Sank Lake Creamery are to be con-
graduated on being one Of the linn
tied number of creameries selected
for this important contract. It
speaks volumes for the efficiency of
management and the quality of the
product manufactured every month by
the Sank Centre cooperative organi-
cation.
During the month of April the
Sank Lake creamery manufactured
1881 pounds of butter, an increase
of 10000 pounds over April 1928.
For this butterfat the patrons were
laid AZ cents per pound, for first
grade butter and 81 cents per pound
for second grade, a total amount Of
$17,61O.00.
The following is list Of patrons
Of the Sank Lake Creamery who re-
received checks of $4,000 or more
for their April butterfat: