The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-01-15
.DAIRYMEN MEET in
SAUK CENTRE JAN. Is
TWENTY COOPERATIVE
CREAMERIES IN THREE COUN-
TIES REPRESENTED
"A. j.. MCGUIRE TALKS
ANNUAL REPORT OF FIELDMAN
MORTENSON SHOWS PROGRESS
HAS BEEN MADE

The second annual meeting of Dis
trict No. 7, of the Minnesota Coop.
erative Creameries Association, Inc,
comprising the member creameries in
Stearns, Todd and Benton counties,
was held at the Community Club
rooms, Sank Centre, Tuesday after
noon. When the condition of the
roads is taken into consideration the
attendance was highly satisfactory, as
most of the 81 creameries belonging
to District No. were represented
by one or more delegates, all of whom
showed much interest in what the
State organization is doing for dairy
ing, Minnesota's most important in
dustry.
The secretary and treasurer's re-
port showed that the districts organ
ization is in very healthy condition.
Because he has gone into other lines
of business w. r. Lindville, district
director, rendered his resignation
which was reluctantly accepted. He
has been a conscientious and capable
member of the state board since the
organization was perfected, giving lib
orally of his time and talent to make
the movement the splendid success 1T
has attained.
Theodore Hilpert, secretary of the
Bertha Cooperative Creamery Assoc
iation, was unanimously selected to
succeed Mr.. Lindville. Mr.. Hilpert
has been actively interested in the CO.
operative movement for several years
and the district association counts it
self fortunate in having in their
ranks so able successor to Mr..
Lindville.
The other four officers of the dis
trict were all reelected; as follows:
vice chairman, Steve Mitchell, Broo-
ten; secretary, Geo. Strauss, Sank
Centre; treasurer, Chas, H. Lien, St.
Cloud; director, H. H. Meyer, Oak
Park.
The address by A. j. Mcclure.
general manager of the State Assoc
iation, was intensely interesting. He
told of the splendid success achieved
in the marketing of "Land O'Lakespe
butter in all of the principal cities of
the country. He explained In detail
some Of the difficulties and obstacles
encountered and overcome, as well as
the slow but sure progress being made
in getting a price for butter that is
commensurate with the fine quality
made by the cooperative creamerles
of Minnesota.
The report of Fieldman M. P.
Mortenson gave an outline OF his ac-
tivities for the year, and marked I'M
provement has been made along sew
eral lines. Mr.. Mortenson's report
follows:
.The second year in the existence
of District No. 7 has just come to a
successful close. The membership is
substantially the same as year ago,
namely: 81, OF which 10 have signed
the marketing contract, and 15 whose
butter has been called in and sold
through the Association The first
two months of the year my time was
taken up largely by the Annual meet
ings of which / attended 22. Mr..
Lindville, Mr.. Gallagher and Mr.:
Brandt spoke at nine other annual
meetings in the District. | attended
10 special meetings during the year,
such as creamery picnics, booster
meetings, etc., with total attendance
of 3114. At all these meetings inn
proved methods of cream production
and creamery management was
stressed in particular. Three OF the
booster meetings were held on Sum
day afternoons with exceptionally
good attendance.
"During the year 401 calls at the
creamery or on its officers have been
made, of which 35 were board meet
ings. Eight days were spent in car
load shipping and re-arranging cars
10 days ION County fair exhibits de-
monstrating cream coolers and dis
tributing literature. Correspondence,
reports and other office work occu-
pied 81 days and 1877 pieces of first
class mail were sent out. Sixty-one
churnings were washed, sailed and
worked to demonstrate control, and
1872 samples tested for composition.
al am much pleased to be able to
saw that practically every operator
now tests every churning for mois-
ture and salt, and reasonably accur-
ate. While there has been consid-
cradle difference between the tests
made at the creamery and at st.
Paul or Duluth, believe in most IN
stances that has been due largely TO
conditions over which the operator
has not had complete control. In
MANY creameries there is still room
for Improvement along that line how
ever. Every churning of buttermilk
is not tested as yet, but most of the
operators tested frequently enough so
that they have, pretty fair idea how
it runs.
ssWhen the Association first called
for the. butter, considerable work was
necessary to get everyone to use
somewhere near the same methods so
as to get uniform results. Every
member creamery in the District now
pasteurizes their cream; ID use
starters; 10 grade and pay from &c
to SC difference, and seven grade close
and make two grades of butter, while