Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-10-08
COOP. CREAM
PLANTS MANY
Number 667 in State in
1929; Produce 198,64O,-
915 Pounds Butter.
Pine Has Thirteen With
Normal Output of Over
100000 lbs. Each.

According to a survey by the Extern
sion Division of the University of Min
nesota the early years of cooperative
creameries in Minnesota were marked
by very rapid increase in the num-
Der of plants in operation. The first
creamery was organized in 1889 and
a few creameries were established
each succeeding year until about 1892.
The period from 1892 to 1900 was one
of very rapid development, during
which the number of cooperative
creameries increased at a rate in eX-
cess of fifty per year. This increase
continued at an appreciable rate until
1915 when 655 cooperative creameries
were in operation. Since that time
the number has increased slowly and
in 1929 there were 677 cooperative
creameries in operation.
Although the, increase in the num-
Der of cooperative creameries practi-
cally stopped about 1915, the total
amount of butter manufactured by
these creameries has continued to in
crease. In 1915 the total production
of 655 cooperative creameries was
76,767, 006 pounds of butter, an aver
age of 117,201 pounds per creamery.
The total production had increased by
1929, to 198,640,915 pounds, the num-
Der of creameries to 667, and the aver
age output per creamery to 297,S12.
An increase of less than two per cent
in the number of creameries was ac-
companied by an increase of 159 per
cent in the total production of butter.
The average size of creamery, meas
ured by butter manufactured, in
creased 154 per cent from 1915 to 1919.
The increase in the average size Of
Minnesota cooperative creameries
has been due partly to the develop
ment of a few very large cooperative
creameries. Six of 43O creameries,
for which records were available.
made over a million pounds of butter
in 1880. The typical Minnesota CO.
operative creamery, however, is still
relatively small, and almost sixty per
cent of them make less than 100000
pounds of butter annually. Only about
six per cent make less than 100,0 900
pounds of butter per year.
According to statistics gained by
the University of Minnesota, coop
Grating with the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, 26 cooperative cream
cries churned 100000 pounds of butter
in 1880; 100, from 100000 to 100000
pounds; SO, 100000 to 100000 pounds;
76, 100000 to 100000 pounds; 40, 4OO,-
900 to 100000 pounds; 81, 100000
to 100000 pounds; 16, 100000 to 70o,-
900 pounds; 4, 100000 to 100000
pounds; 5. 100000 to 100000 pounds;
2. 100000 to 100000 pounds, and
churning 100000 pounds and over.
Pine Co-ops Good.
Pine county had IA cooperative
creameries which produced collective
ly 4,269,975 pounds of butter in 1929.
Patrons of these creameries we're paid
in the same year $1,6S1, 44S.94. Since
that time the Duquette Cooperative
Creamery, however, has quit business
and the plant is being operated indie
pendently, thus leaving Is in Pine
county. Six of the Pine county cream
cries are normal producers of over
300, 900 pounds of butterfat annually.
one of which makes nearly a million
pounds. The average production per
creamery is approximately 305,000
pounds.