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Show LOOK OUT FOR THE CREAMERY ROMOTOR Form and Fireside the national farm paper published at Springfield Issues the following varn-.ng In Its current number a warning that Is a' liable to Investors whether they llvo In tho city or In tho country; "The month of June, when dairy cows nro producing the greatest aggregate ag-gregate amount of milk of any tlmo of the year, Is n favorite month for tho activities of creamery promoters. Dosing their nssurnnces for ei largo and prosperous business on Juno milk jte'd, these promoters have Influenced Influenc-ed thousands of dairymen to buy the material and mnchlnery for a creamery cream-ery capitalized generally nt from J5, 000 to $8,000 and usually worth about hnlf tho nmount. Such a plan Is no, to bo confused with a cooperatively organized creamory where tho formers form-ers nnd tho local business men take an nctlvo spontaneous Interest in the organization nnd nro not talked lntoM by promoters who cite successful co-' operntlvo creameries ns oDject les sens. "Tho creamery promote- Is not Interested In-terested In helping tho formers, but rather In selling them a creamery establishment es-tablishment at n high price and making mak-ing n largo commission on the transaction. trans-action. Tho promoter is nlmost al ways an agent of a building nnd supply sup-ply company, Is a good tnlker nnd radiates rad-iates prosperity which formerly bo longed to others. "At least 75,000 pounds of butter-fat I rr, expressed differently, tho total jleld of four hundred good cows, Is needed to enable a creamery to oper-ato oper-ato economlca'ly throughout tho year. The amount of milk or cream produced produc-ed In the spring and summer Is very misleading as a btsls for calculation. "Fanners contemplating the establishment estab-lishment of n local creamery on tae cooperative system are advised to write to tho Diary Division of the United States Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture for full and reliable Information on tho subject. Most of tho experiment experi-ment stntlons are also able to give this advice and any who aro in doubt tuny address their Inquiries to Farm and Fireside which will refer them to the nearest source ot official information. informa-tion. "Hemeraber that about a thousand unsucessful creamery plantshave been promoted in the United States and dairymen will do well to give promoters prom-oters plenty of passing room during the next few months. And don't Blgn your name to their papers under any pretext which they may give." |