Askov American., 1932-02-18
MANY ATTEND
CREAM MEETS
Sandstone, eroun, Pine
City, Bruno Patrons Re-
view Plants Earnings.
Boards are Selected, Some
Changes and Plans
Made for 1892.


Various units of Pine county's larg-
est agricultural enterprise have been
summing up business during the past
weeks and the past week has seen
four more close their years books
and start anew. These are Sandstone,
Beroun, Pine City and Bruno.
The Sandstone Cooperative Cream
cry Association was the last to hold
its annual meeting and that annual
gathering was held Tuesday after
noon in the presence of large crowd
The financial report of the cream
cry showed that a total of SS3,310.22
was paid for butterfat and an average
price of 26.77 cents per pound was
paid. The quantity of butter manu-
factured in 1881 amounting to $685.
AIS pounds was a little less than that
of the preceding year which amounted
to 3S6,669 during which year an aver
age price of 1882 cents per pound
was paid. The overrun of the past
year was 1923 per cent.
The same board of directors were
elected to serve the coming year.
Members of the board and the capaci-
ty in which they served in 1881 fol-
lows: Gust E. Johnson. president:
Louis Anderson, vice president; NelS
Lundorff, secretarytreasurer; Guy
Hendricks, J. c. Hansen. Fred Ander-
son, and Joe Warner. p. E. Robinson
is the operator.
or
which the patrons, in such numbers
that iammed the New Theatre, were
treated to a theatre party.
100 People Attend BerOun Meeting.
One of the largest crowds to ever
attend the BerOun Cooperative
Creamery meeting was that which lis
tened to a review of the years busi-
ness Saturday in the Beroun high
school building.
A few changes were taken up for
discussion at the meeting and adopted.
Among these was the reduction of
the ACCOMPLISHMENTS salary from
$500 to $500.
Patrons delivered a total of 773,4S4
pounds of cream which comma anded
an average test of 253 per cent. The
creamery made 242,7S5 pounds of but
ter and the overrun percentage
amounted to 23.7. or a total of 46,624
pounds. The statement also points
out one of the most important fac
tors that producers themselves can
control in making more profitable
enterprise from dairying and that is
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who produced such cream received
27.7S cents per pound of butterfat,
while those who produced No. cream
received an average of 24.20 cents per
pound, causing direct loss of S819.S4
to the producers of No. 2 cream.
Leo Haberman was selected as a
director in place of H. NJ. Posel. Other
members of the board are. Anton
Kacer, who was president in 1881;
Frank j. Paveck; L. ]. Ouradnik, sec
retary-treasurer; F. NJ. Kubesh, Will
liam Won Bush and F. w. Runa.
A. Adamek has been the efficient
operator for the past year and was
-Complimented very highly by differ
ent members who spoke during the
meeting. Lunch was served at noon.
Pine City Makes Gain.
The annual meeting of the Pine
City Cooperative Creamery Associa-
tiOn was also held Saturday afternoon
at Pine City with a large attendance.
The terms of three directors had ex-
pired and they were reelected for
three years, they being George Kick,
ID II
Other officers of the association are
P. H. Anderson, George Dipprey, An
drew Carlson, directors, and Elmer
Carlson, operator S. A. Striegl, sec
retary. read the annual report which
showed the creamery to be in an ex-
cellent financial condition.
During the year 1881 the creamery
sales amounted to S23O,560.48. Sta
tistics presented by the secretary
showed the following for the year:
pounds of milk received, 1880, ,129;
pounds of cream received, 2,378,059;
pounds of butterfat bought, 712,360;
pounds of butterfat sold in milk and
cream, 5,430; pounds of butter made,
875,038; statistical butter make, in
cludes fat sold plus average overrun,
881, ,758; gain over last year, 44,743;
per cent of overrun, 23.77&o; average
price received for butter, 26.05c; aver
age price paid all grades cream, 29.-
46c; average price paid for sweet
cream, 29.8c; direct manufacturing
cost per pound, 21c; total cost, over
head and depreciation included, Csc.
Art Rentz of the Land of Lakes
Creameries, Inc, gave a talk on the
marketing system used by the cor
poration. Mr.. Jacobson of the Mid
land Cooperative Oil Association
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