Show E ul RII 1111 S 5 the creamery situation in this count grows interesting the reaper is ie in receipt of a communication from H F jan en of the jensen jencen creamery company compan in legard to the meeting of the cream producers which vias reported in the reaper of march larch when the salina salim creamer company met with the dam men of this city and secured a promise of cream from this section the jensen creamery company offers to rent the poulson creamery in this eit cit to an any responsible person to operate a creamery camery cr so as to enable the farmers here to dispose of their cream to a home concern coni ern the question naturally arises why sen sell creamer company zet a lease on the Pou lerr creamer in this city and then close it do na mr air henren aliis us in his letter that there is dolenty of competition here in this counts count arid and nai ts cs t s i i u an in ill laj ilion to the salina company aich are making a bid for the cream from this counts count he sas sacs that it if the cream producers here think he is a danger and a menace to the dairy interests the farmers do riot not hae bae to sell their cream to him he turner sas tint that butter fat sold at 13 15 cents in sen i illey alley in and for 17 cents last summer arid and that theme thee prices are arc too low ile he does not propose to let the price get belov belom 20 cents this summer when the dastrup creamery was mas in ili on they paid for I 1 utter fat wit in ahr three ee cents of the market price of butter since they went ment out of business the price has dropped to five fic cents within the market price of butter IN which blob makes a differt din berince of per month to the daireen da irmen why V by this change if mr air jt ji ansen desires to keep up the price for the sake of the farmers 7 present indications are arc that instead of 1 00 there will be a loss of 1000 per month to the dair dairymen men of this settlor the ke kc to the bhole situation for the cream producers of this section is the erection of a creamery cri amery arid and cold storage plant of sufficient capacity to handle the cream of this entire section of four or five counties if the eo co operative plan is adopted by the farmers they cin can snap their fingers at the private concerns with monopolistic tendencies the storage situation must be solved before the creamery interests of this section can hope tor for the consideration to which they are entitled A co operative creamery and storage plant can be erected and maintained by each cream producer subscribing to a small amount of stock say 25 each and get enough farmers into it to own it these farmers can then pledge themselves to deliver ull all their cream to this plant and to refuse to sell to other firms they will then their get all the return from the manufactured product instead of the price for butter fat which the present crear creamery nery companies com pinies offer here is the solution I 1 it will mill pa the farmers to carefully care tully consider this matter and some leiding leading spirits should take hold of it and continue until cie every ry farmer farmei is converted to the co plan of conducting a creamery this thib plan has been the most successful of nf any yet tried imong imon dairymen according to the government reports dair dairing di iring ing is most 0 s t ss ma fu ful I 1 where this plin plan is I 1 carried r r ic out t in districts where the private crea creamery m is operated there is 11 ii a decided 1 decrease I it in deri products while in cooperative districts there I 1 is in increase think it over and see if it is not about time for the men to b too looking k out or |