The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-08-29

PRODUCTION
SHOWS jump
n. y. Farmers Marketed 40
Million Pounds in Fiscal
Year

Diversification Of agriculture al
ready is a fact in North Dakota. al
though, much remains TO be done TO
bring the state to the status which
it might attain. in the opinion OF
John HUSKY, dairy expert for the
state department Of agriculture, who
today completed the compilation of
statistics on the dairy business in
North Dakota.
The records show that 40,l25,l47
pounds Of butterfat were marketed
| by North Dakota farmers during the
| fiscal wear Just ended and that they
received for it $l3.353.626.26. nearly
! all Of which was paid in cash.
Big Increase
! This represents approximately a
25 per cent increase over last year
| report when 81 l,724,520 pounds Of
butterfat brought total of $9,S14.-
| s5s.67. HUSKY said. The fact that
the income did not keep pace with
! the production in comparison with
| last year was due to slight de-
! crease in the average price. HUSKY
| said.
Another noticeable feature Of the
! development Of the dairy business
. in North Dakota is the increase in
the sale Of buttcrfat to creameries
outside the state. Last year 1912
O52 pounds or about 40 per cent of
the total went to crcamcricS in other
states.
Burleigh county produced 398, 500
az pounds Of butterfat and received
| $l3S 90O.40. Morton county pro-
duced ?o9.2OO.lG pounds which
| brought $323.907.
| Compare 1914
The manner in which the business
has advanced during the last ~
years is best shown, HUSKY said, by
comparing this years figures with
! those for 1914. In that year 7,3l2,OsG
! mounds Of butterfat were marketed
| and brought total Of $S73,l77.93,
all Of which was paid out by cream
stations who in turn sent it to the
, creameries. In the year just ended
29,294,S22 pounds were sold through
| cream stations and l0.s3O,325 were
sold direct to the creameries by the
farmers.
For butterfat shipped direct to
them by farmers the creameries paid
53,624.67. while the cream sta
tions paid out ,5O0,00l.59 for the
butterfat shipped to them. The
number of creameries now operating
in North Dakota is SO. Ten years
ago, despite the comparatively small
! volume Of business being handled,
there were &C.
Large Creameries
The answer, HUSKY said. is that
! the creameries now operating are
large, fully equipped plants capable
of handling hundreds of gallons of
milk and cream where those of 10
years ago handled only 10 gallons.
OF the 1900 cream stations Ii
censed by the state for the fiscal
year only 1895 reported, HUSKY said.
Their average purchases of butter
fat were 16,5OO pounds.
Butterfat figures do not include
the 55,305 gallons Of ice cream man
ufactured in the state last year. an
! increase of l43,353 gallons over the
previous year. Neither does it in
clude the milk and cream from North
Dakota cows made into ice cream by
creameries in neighboring states or
the whole milk sold to consumers
| throughout the state. The latter
item alone, HUSKY said, will total
about $2,O00,O0O.
Ward First
Listed by cOuntleS. Ward county
| made the highest jump in butterfat
production last year with an
increase of 3l7,l39 pounds and
Cass county was second with
an increase Of 287,962 pounds.
Other counties reporting outstand-
ing increases were Grand Forks, La
| Moure. McHenry, Mcintosh, Ramsey
| and Ransom.
Stutsman county, although it fail
ed to show an increase proportional
to that in some other counties, con-
tinued to hold the lead in butterfat
production l,27S, 1882 pounds.