The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-06-07
Success of Blue Valley Creamery
Makes Sank Centre Great
Cream Market

Sank Centre is the natural CEN
ter of one of the most progressive
and greatest of farming districts
of Minnesota.
This was the conclusion of the
Blue Valley Creamery Co., the
largest exclusive butter manufac-
turers in the world, after a thor
ough survey Of the state back in
1922. The great success of the
Blue Valley Sweet Cream Cream
cry which accordingly was OPP
ened for business the following
year has proven this conclusion
entirely correct. Sank Centre is
not only the center of a great
farming country but leader in ag-
ricultural progress and prosperity,
to which the Blue Valley cream
cry has contributed its ample
share.
At the time the Blue Valley
company located one of its cream
cries in Sank Centre, it owned and
operated 10 large and successful
plants, situated in Missouri, Kan
sas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Ken
lucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and
Wisconsin, and had just opened an
other large factory in Duluth. 1t
also had a big sales house in New
York City.
A Sweet Cream Market
The Blue Valley creamery sys-
tenn, built up in the course of twen-
ty years, had served the farmers
of these states most successfully
in the marketing of sour cream,
the grade usually produced in the
corn belt, and in the manufacture
and sale of Blue Valley package
butter. The company believed that
with creamery situated in a
country where the farmer has an
opportunity to produce sweet
cream, the service which the Blue
Valley system would be able to
render would be still greater. Ac-
cordingly the Blue Valley Sweet
Cream Creamery was located in
Sank Centre and opened for bust
mes earlyin July 1923, almost five
years ago. CSince then Blue Val
ley creameries have been establish
ed at Bemidji, Mimi. Fargo, N. D.,
and WATERFOWL, S. d.
1t quickly became a success. Ev-
cry year since then it has grown
in the volume of sweet cream sold
to it by the farmers, and today this
Sank Centre institution receives
more Sweet Cream for butter man.
ufacture directly from Individual
farms than any other creamery not
only in Minnesota but in the whole
Northwest.
The Blue Valley System
The Blue Valley creamery sys-
tenn, the ability of which to serve
the farmer has been so amply
demonstrated here in Sank Centre
during the past five years, is built
entirely on the principle of making
the distance between the cream
producer, the butter manufacturer
and the butter consumer as short
as it is humanity possible. In this
way expenses are cut to minimum
all along the line and this saving
naturally is reflected in the cream
CllcChS W IIlt pIOuuCcIS.
The success of the direct Blue
Valley system is providing a high,
dependable cream. market is fur
Their enhanced by the butter man.
ufacturing system which the COM
pany, due to it's long experience
and tremendous volume of business
in a comparatively small number
of large plants, has developed. The
director of its butter manufacture
ing department is Prof. Otto F.
Hunziker, the worlds foremost
butter manufacturing scientist, so
acknowledged not only by the adop-
ton of his text books by agricul-
tural colleges here and their use
abroad, but by the great demand
for his services as counsellor and
lecturer on butter manufacturing
problems. In that capacity he has
served at the Minnesota college
and at many other colleges in the
United States and Canada. Last
year, at the request of dairy Of
ficials in Australia and New Zea-
land he made an extended tour of
those far-off countries and this
year he is invited to speak before
the Worlds Dairy Congress in
London, England,
Prof. Hunziker's word is law in
every Blue Valley creamery.
Through the employment of thor
oughly Blue Valley trained super
intendents, through constant super
vision and checking of factory re-
ports, through analyzation of
samples of the butter in the Blue
Valley research laboratories, recog-
nized as the largest and best
equipped of it's kind in the coun-
try, the methods designed by Prof.
Hunziker are enforced, to the great
advantage of the producer as well
as the consumer.
Sweet Cream by Mail
The Blue Valley system is es-
.sentially a cream shipping system.
While many farmers haul their
own cream to the Blue Valley
creamery, the large volume neces:
;sary for greatest economy could
never be supplied by one single
locality.
From hundred or more railroad
stations within shipping distance
of Sank Centre, farmers ship THEN
Sweet Cream to Blue Valley here
Each farmer ships his own cream
in his own can direct. This is
dono m avoid the overhead ex.