The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-12-27
MINI. DIARIES ARE
GREAT PRODUCERS
Department Places Value of
1928 Butter, Cheese and
Milk at $1S7,313,907
OLD STEARNS LEADS
"a Creameries Produce 49,
O71,79S Pounds of Butter
Valued at $6,SS3,944. 76
Obi Charles F. Collision, Mime
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Steated on the lowly milk stool
night and morning, harvesting a
crop of cream twice day-in-
stead of only once a year like the
grain grower-the dairymen of
Minnesota drew from the udder of
the friendly dairy cow total OF
$187,313,907 in real wealth last
year.
This is the estimated value of
all the manufactured dairy pro-
ducts of the state, according to the
Minnesota dairy and food commits
sion. Paul H. Kirk, federal and
state statistician, estimates the
farm value of Minnesota's milk
and cream crop to be $3.50, ABS, 4Ol
or nearly $1O,50O,O00 more than in
1926.
The value of the 1927 butter out
put of our $50 creameries mounted
up to the enormous total of $685.
745,O5O.55. In the previous year
it was worth $111,990,623.05 1t
exceeds that of any other state or
of the dominion of Canada.
One of the most gratifying facts
about this cooperative production
of butter wealth by the creameries
and the dairymen is that the latter
received 80 per cent of all the
money received by the factories for
their golden product. Their en-,
tire creamery output is made and
marketed on a margin of cost that
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In the form of cream checks, the
Minnesota creameries disbursed to
their milking patrons the sum of
$113,613,474.11 last year. During
the previous year these payments
amounted to SOL, 308,333. The
average price received by all the
creameries for their butter was
44.72 cents a pound, while they
paid the producer an average of
51.21 cents a pound for his but
terfat, the raw material.
From being recognized as the
greatest flour milling state of the
world, Minnesota has now blossom
ed forth as the true "bread and
butter" state.
Only Wisconsin (1,948,O00) has
more dairy cows than Minnesota
(1,528,0O0) and while the former
has developed the largest cheese
making industry in America, Min
nesota holds the palm for butter
making.
$50 Creameries in Minnesota
Minnesota butter is made in $50
creameries, divided into three types
known as cooperative, individual
and centralizer. About two-thirds
of the entire butter output is made
in the cooperative plants. These
belong to farmers themselves, and
return to their patrons all of their
profits, according to the amount of
raw material of "butterfat" that
each one furnishes.
Most of these are local cream
cries, receiving their cream from
sthauling distance" and depending
upon these local supplies for fresh,
sweet material. This enables them
to produce a particularly high
grade of butter.
Then there are 157 individually
owned plants of somewhat the same
local character, but not operated on
the cooperative plan. Their pro-
fits are paid back to their owners
or stockholders. -.<
The third class differs widely
from these local plants. The CEN
tralizers are located in the cities,
or at strategic shipping points thru
out the state, and draw their
cream supplies from a wide radius.