Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-12-24
Dairying communities Prosperous.

Dairying communities Prosperous.
Rice county is the home of the
famous Northfield Holstein center,
People come there from all over the
world to buy pure-bred cattle. The
Mortified banks are full of farmers
| deposits. Her creameries made ST.
100000 worth of golden butter.
There are no frozen credits" there.
| Scott county made more than
$744,000 worth; Washington more
than a million and a half
Steele, another small county of on
ly twelve townships has paid up all
four of her war finance loans. She
made $2,300,000 worth of butter in %
cooperative 'creameries, and paid
farmers more than $2,232,000 in cash.
! Steele is said to have the highest
butterfat production per acre in the
United States. She has only 1880
farms, only $4,000 people, and $4,000
dairy cows; more than one for each
| farm.
| Bank Deposits Increasing.
Carl Bennett, the banker in Owa-
tonna, says that Steele county bank
deposits have increased in the past
six years $4,000, OO0-they now total
more than $2,OOO,OOO; nearly all of
it subject to farmers checks.
Goodhue, our great cheese making
county, has only one loan unpaid and
lone paid up. She made $2,500,000 Of
butter and cheese. Her farmers are
not hard up.
Here is another striking compari-
son. Anoka county, just above Min.
neapolis, where the potato is king.
Her four creameries made only
$4,000 worth of butter, and her
| four war finance loans are unpaid.
Wright county, just westward, made
$2,5OO,OO0 worth, in "a creameries
and has paid five of her six loans.
Pipestone, another small county on
| the western border, made more than
| $1,500,000 worth of this creamery
gold. She paid up 16 of her 81 loans.
| Freeborn county, "home and mo-
Their" of the creamery industry, made
more than $2,600,000 worth of but
| ter in 26 farmers creameries. She
paid up four of her five loans. Vase
ca borrowed on two. and has paid
them up, by making more than mil
lion in golden butter and golden dol
| lars.
Cream Checks Pay Debts.
These farmers are getting regular
cream checks, every month in the
year, and they are paying their debts
like good business men.
| Now of course you folks can guess
why. 1t is because they have cows
good, old contented, sweet-breathed,
cud-chewing, grass grazing, milk
making dairy cows, making money
for their owners night and day; work
ing while they sleep, producing milk
4 and cream and golden butter and gol-
den cheese and golden dollars.
These farmers reap a harvest in
the milk pail, twice or three times a
day, instead of only once year, like
the wheat growers They have their
dreds of them. There is fine coop
erative creamery around the bend of
nearly every road, in central and
southern Minnesota.
The business men know that these
butter factories and dairy farms, and
silos, all make mighty good neighbors
for country banks and country mer-
| chants.
Cow Proves Foster Mother.
Now let's cross the river into North
Dakota. Mcintosh, county for exam
pie has rough, rocky, swampy soils;
not much good pillow land there. So
her farmers turned to dairying years
ago, and to raising cows and hogs.
She stands second in butterfat pro-
duction in the state, more than one
million pounds which brought in more
| than 100000 in golden money. !Thir-
teen of her loans are paid up; only
one unpaid.
Mcintosh has the smallest amount
OF mortgages on her farm lands and
of delinquent, taxes and overdue pay
ments of farm contracts of any coun-
/ ty in North Dakota. The little town
| of iceland is said to be the richest
of its size, only 325 people, in the
state. It's banks have on deposit more
serves of nearly $150,000. Mcintosh
county's bank deposits are $780,
| 900, and have trebled in ten years.
| Compare this with Dickey county,
| just eastward, with better wheat soils,
there my own family have been rails
/ ing wheat and flax for years. Her
butterfat sales are about one-third
those of Mcintosh. Only four of her
loans are paid up, 15 are unpaid.
Morton county, out on the slope
country" with six creameries, leads
/ the state in butterfat production,
more than 100000 pounds. These
sales brought more than half mil
lion dollars last year. The Journal in
New Salem, town of 500, where q
great Holstein center has been devel-
oped, says that farmers there are re-
ceiving an average OF $1,000 q
month, or more than $4,000 in three
months for butterfat this year.