The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-01-29

Sank Lake creamery paid their pat,
rons Ice more per pound for butter,
fat than the II stations were paying
without cooperative competition. This
should be sufficient evidence that il
pays to cooperate. The cooperative
spirit in Minnesota is growing. More
has been accomplished in the last year
than competition has in twenty-five
years. After you have quarter GEN.
fury record to point to, the centraliz-
er will have no chance" No Ok
! Mr.. Schilling said that Denver, COL,
Omaha, Neb., and Indianapolis, md,
paid the lowest price for butterfat
of the entire country-just because
the farmers of those sections are mot
organized. -~&ti.-.s..
In conclusion Mr.. Schilling said:
"The first lessons in cooperation be-
gin at home. If you cannot cooperate
with your wife you cannot cooperate
with your neighbor or your own in
stitution. Next year if you want me
to speak at your annual meeting you
will have to assure me that you farm
ers will bring your wives and that
your businessmen will be in attend
ance-otherwise I will not come w.
eff you have a .boarder COW kill
her and eat the meat. If she is not
producing for you don't sell her to a
neighbor.
1t will be interesting at this point
to know that Mr.. Schilling has ac-
cepted an assignment to address the
farmers of this section at Sank, Cen
tire on the second day of the Stearns
county fair next September.
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Mr.. Mejerton, buttermaker at the
Sank Lake creamery followed Mr..
Schilling and gave a rapid fire talk
to the farmers. He called the farm
ers' attention to advertisements and
circulars sent out to the patrons by
competitors. He admitted that there
was a difference in butterfat prices,
but that during the last eight months
the difference in the average price has
been very small if the farmers take
into account the free buttermilk, Mr..
Mejerton said, among other things:
"The difference in prices paid the
first four months in 1924 were due to
the sharp drop in the butter market.
1.-THE support of unnecessary mid
dlemen should not mean a whole lot,
as If any party or organization have
such thing, those different men who
have during the past year called on
every farmer urging them to quit
heir own business institution, surely
must be classed as unnecessary mid
llemen.
s'The statement made that the
Blue Valley has to compete with many
points where higher price is paid |
'or butterfat than is paid by our
.reamery is rather misleading, as the
Blue Valley don't get anything worth
Mentioning from points like Bertha, /.
Jlarissa and similar places where al.
'ood cooperative creamery exists.
he statement made in the same cir
ular that rs per cent are paidtl
ne special sweet cream price does not Isl
ecessarily mean that that you farm ID
RS would get the same grading when {
our own plant is closed down. ]
"The Blue Valley use some official IA
ate figures, and cow population, in 4
with their argument that !
rices in Northern Minnesota natur- A
ly should be lower th2n jim Stearns
,unty. They fail however to in \
'rm the farmer that in these count {
s there is very little winter dairy T
g, when prices are highest, as hasd 4