The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-01-20
LOCAL CREAMERY
MAKES GAIN in rs
Blue Valley Expect to Make
100000 Pounds of
Butter in 1927
ALFALFA IS PROFITABLE
M. A. Nye, Local Manager,
Reviews Dairy Outlook
for This Section

"A short time ago the Herald
editor in discussing business con.
ditions with M. A. Nye local
manager of the Blue Valley
Creamery of this city asked him
how their output for< 1926 com.
pared with 1925. Mr.. Nye has re.
Gently completed his annual re-
port to the company's head office
ait Chicago, and he has prepared
a statement for the Herald on the
business, which indicates that the
Dairy industry in Central Mime
sofa is in a very healthy condi-
ton. Mr.. Nye's statement is sub
stantially as follows:
with anywhere normal wealth,
er during the pasture and growing
season the Blue. Valley Sweet
Cream Creamery will pass the g..
100000 pound mark this year,
said M. A. Nye.
GIN spite of dry weather and q
shortage of feed the past years
business showed a substantial gain
in volume, Here around Saul
Centre where the dry weather last
year took about as heavy a toll as
anywhere in the state the farm.
ers sold us 1895 per cent more
butterfat than in 1925. The num-
Der of active Customers from
around Sank Centre showed a
gain of 1911 per cent over 1925.
some of them never before having
traded regularly in our city.
"The quality of the cream has
also improved wonderfully, and
the Sank Centre farmers have
placed themselves right in the
front rank of farmers everywhere.
when it comes to handling and car,
ing for cream. Over 95 per cent
of all the cream received from
our local customers during De-
cember, for instance, graded
Especial Sweet" and so received
our highest price-a remarkable
record as compared with the av-
erage quality of cream three and
half years ago when our COM
pany first opened for business. II
is safe to say that the great I'M
provement all Sank Centre farm
ers have made in the quality OF
their cream, have secured for them
one hundred thousand dollars in
three and cne-half years.
GAS whole the butter markets
have ruled little lower during
1926 than they did during the
previous year. However, due to
Improved quality and the big de-
mand, we have been able to pay
our customers price that made
dairying profitable.
"During the last month of the
year prices were the highest in
three years, and while butter pric-
es are somewhat lower now, there
is no reason to believe that dairy.
ing will be less profitable to the
farmer during the coming veal
than it was in 1926. The sale Of
sweet cream and the feeding OF
the fresh skimmilk to poultry, hogs
and calves is a combination hare
to beat for profit and safety. The
only better combination is the ad.
dition of alfalfa, making it Cows
Alfalfa, Sows, Hens, which spells
Cash farming.
"The large increase in alfalfa
acreage around Sank Centre is
giving our community much de.
sirable advertising. I have seer
newspaper clippings way dowr
from Texas, giving an account o1
the progress made here in grow
ing alfalfa. We are continual!
striving Ito pay the farmers thu
highest possible price for sweet
cream. However, still greater
profits will come to the men wht
grow alfalfa and feed it to theil
cows. In that way they will in
crease the milk production per COW
and cut the cost of tie feed, thu
making still larger profits.
eve urge all Sank Centre farm
ers to increase their alfalfa thi
spring. It was the only green spo
last summer, and the man win
grows alfalfa is bound to maxi
more money from his cows yea
in and year out. We SHOULD
reach the. 10000 goal this yea
and, as in former years, we vii
do all in its power to help SAD
Centre farmers to grow more al
falfa."