Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-05-28
ANNUAL CREAM
MEETING HELD
District No. 2 Creamery
Representatives Gather
at Shafer.
johnson, Striegl and Brandt
are the Principal
Speakers.

The annual meeting of District No.
2 of the Land OLakes creameries was
held in Shafer last Thursday. All of
the creameries in the district were
represented and in the evening the
annual banquet in honor of the
creamery operators was held at which
John Brandt, president of the Land
O'Lakes creameries, was the princi-
pal speaker.
The meeting in the afternoon was
an interesting one. Emil G. Johnson,
assistant general manager and treas
urer of Land OLakes Creameries, told
of the steps taken in consolidating
the gains made by Land O'Lakes in
extending its market facilities in re-
cent years and showed how these
moves had already reduced the ex-
penses of operation. He said that
the other companies were now fol-
lowing the lead of Land O'Lakes in
grading dairy products and maintain
ing strict laboratory supervision over
all production.
S. A Striegl, director of the dis
trict, who presided, urged that every
effort must be made to maintain CO.
operative supremacy in the marketing
of dairy products. Private companies,
he said, had an advantage in that
they could pay more in territories
where they had cooperative compe-
tition and then make it up by pay
ing less where the farmers had not
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He cited as an example that IS cents
a pound was being paid in Kansas
for butter, while at the same time
35 cents was being paid in Mime
sofa.
Chairman Striegl emphasized that
cussion of present problems. The
rising value of milk powder has
caused the creameries without dryers
to face stiff competition from private
companies which have invaded their
territory. Herman Berg, former di-
rector of the district, led this dis
cussion. Creameries having dryers,
with present powder prices, can pay
10 cents a pound more for butterfat,
but, of course, it was brought out, this
does not leave any skimmilk at home
for feeding The general opinion was
that all creameries should equip
themselves with dryers so that as
the market changed they could shift
their type of manufacture and in this
way be always able to get the high
est return for their patrons. Some
sentiment favored the grouping of
creameries and purchase of a dryer
at a central point.
Mayor Welcomes.
Mayor George Matson of Shafer,
welcomed the visitors at the eve
ming banquet for Shafer, and o. E.
Grandstrand gave the welcome for
the Shafer Cooperative Creamery. C.
H. Chadborn, donor of the Vendome
Trophy, which has been won more
times by District No. 2 than any
other district, made a few remarks.
Gus Hellzen, Stacy, responded for the
creamery operators.
Mr.. Brandt discussed the need of
better financing for cooperatives,
spoke of the splendid work being
done by cooperatives in this period
of depression and urged that here in
America was the greatest market in
the world ready to be developed by
seeing that the farmers got a fair
price for their products.
The situation in farm sections to-
day is extremely critical, he said.
Farmers cannot meet their obliga-
tions as long as they get the low
prices for their products that they
get now, he declared. Back years ago
when prices for farm products were
as high as they are at present, farm
machinery was selling for half what
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