Show CO OPERATIVE cooperative creameries CREA MERIES an Eno riBon amount of lubor labor savea gatei M lien T ahny hey al ai successful tho the operative cooperative co system must con continue linno to grow in magni magnitude tudo until a n large por per tion of all the milk produced is worked up at central points centralization is tho the order of the day and nowhere is it more evident than in dairying there will ho be some in tile iho system where private daira dairymen men supply individual customers with butter but there is a limit in this direction while for tho the factory factor system I 1 see none the bringing together of the milk from off a hundred daims to ono one central point means thit that a hundred farmers wives are belim relieved ca f from roin irksome labor and in place ilace I lace of a hundred kinds of butter in ill as many style pack packages alps each paying heay express charges there is ore lot of uni uniform forra quality shipped at low rates in the refrigerator car in the creamery 1 see the saving of nn A n enormous amount of energy on oa the farm which will bo be set freehand free and utilized in the direction of better dairy farms plea pleasanter santer homes and improved social conditions who shall control tile hie creameries crea erca meries upon this important question I 1 have arrived it at no definite conclusions thero there is a natural desire among farmers in these days to control their own business and who can blame thorn them for it the farmers fan ners occupation in a measure prevents him from being a lul shrewd business man in the usual sense of that term his work is to produce rather mathei than to barter in consequence of the desire among farmers to manage their aini business we a have seen scores and ant hundreds of operative cooperative co creameries crea meries spring up in the west dechuso of enmity jealousy and lack of buc business iness capacity we have seen a large per cent of these factories become bankrupt and pass into other hands if our farmers would only have more patience with each other and would put the same energy to work along business lines that is now given over to neighborhood quarrels operative cooperative co factories would rule the day hero here and therode there we find operative cooperative co factories successfully managed which stand ns as monuments OI of L neighborhood good beelin feel ing and brotherly confidence inlay lay their number rapidly increase Prof professor csor henry |