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THE CENTRE REPORTER
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1913
COOPERATIVE EXPERIENUE
Pian of Hlinots Farmers Might be Dupll-
eated Locally to the Profit of Investors
and Community,
The experiences of others is always
well worth considering when an indi-
vidua!, a company, or an organization
of any kind is considering a business
venture, True it is that where one
succeeds another fails, but if by experi-
ence it is shown that a plan is feasible
it remains only for those interested to
apply good business methods and re-
sults will be gimilar,
At Centre Hall there is 8 creamery
plant about to be elosed on account of
the owner removing to another point
to accept an attractive position. . There
is abundant evidence on all sides that
these small creamery plants bring to
their owners large returns in pet prof-
ite, and it is also coveclusively shown
that the of pro-
ducers of milk make it possible to con.
banding together
duct a co-operative factory, It would be
an
in
easy matter to pick a dczen farmers
this immediate
would support ten
vic'nity whose
to fifteen
could te
checked on to purchase this plant, and
whose buriness gkill would be amip'e
to sucees: fully conduct such a plant,
the only remaining requirement being
to put into action their money under
their own direction,
farms
3s
¢h we: whose bank sccounts
The possibilities of co-operation is
well demonstrated io many sections in
the west and t, where farm-
prefer to direct their own funds
A brief history of a co-operative cream-
ery plant in the village of Hebron,
north west
ers
in
MeHenry county, Illinois, is here re.
printed from the Country Gentleman :
the mea-
#ell whole
large compsnies who
enntract by the month for the product
a 80 much per hundrad pounds.
verage farm price of milk per
this system of disposal
All
to the
Milk Commission,
that the barn in
which the milk is produced be equip
or, a dust-tight
ventilation and
about four square feet of window area
per cow, while the animals must be
maintained in a healthy, vigorous
condition and there must be no disease
among the families of any of the milk-
ers
The fed after the
milking process is completed, and the
milk house must
In the Elgin dairy district
jority of the milk farms
miik to several
The
quart
udder Tanges
this milk
requirements
undar thr2e cents ia
used subject
the Chicago
which necessitate
ped with a conerete fl
eeiling, adequate
silage must be
be located from six
the barn, The milk
must be immediately enoled below 65
after it is drawn
and it must be delivered to the factory
in In
a word which
is producad are rigid and ex-
pensive, so that the dsirymen make
ttle money at less than three cents a
Fis
to ten feet from
degrees Fahrenheit
condition.
under
a clean, wholesome
the ¢
nditions
3 itis
thia milk
quart. [no addition the farmers that
their milk to these companies
s
contrac
must decrease the number of young
animals and swine that they maintain
they have no skim
milk or buttermilk to feed to young
hogs Coney
selling considerable fertility
places
on their farms, as
gtock or are annually
from their
in the guise of whole milk,
I
It was dae to these two factors—the
f
fact that litlle
youag
yo raised under this
the Farmers’
stock or hogs
syatem
Cooperative Fac-
tory, of Hebron, Illinois, Organ-
ized. Bix of th» leading farmers
that rich dairy region met and formu-
Inted plans for their
At a central
farms that
could 1
that
Was
private factory
near the
were (0 supply cream to
the butter factory the manager of the
projet purchased
upon which
leestion
two acrea of land,
he erected a small con.
na well as a8 plessant dwelling house
for ‘he butter-maker,
The countryside predicted the com-
plete failure of the new prejeet within
the first #ix months The failure
never materini’zad, The factory has
been successfully operated for three
years and at present the demand for
the bu'ter, which ia marketed in the
neighboring town of two thousand io-
habitants, is at a maximum. Were
the daily output five times aa large all
the butter could be readily marketed
at a premiom above Elgin prices
‘I'he remarkable feature of this cooper.
ative factory is that its promoters and
owners have never had to invest any
of their private funds in building and
establishing the preject, The factory
has not only paid ite way from the
start but it has also sccumulated a
sufficient surplus to settle all the ex-
penses of establishing and managing
the plant
In every seanae of the word this fa a
private farmers’ factory, The six
countrymen who own it milk about
120 grade and purebred Holstelne, an
average of 20 to the farm. Each msn
owna a hand separator aud separates
his milk on the home farm. This
permits of feeding the skim milk to
the young stock and hogs when it is
in the best conditior—'hat ls, still
warm from the cows. This method
of separating the milk on the farm
and hauling the cream to the factory
mesures (he butter maker of a clean,
high testing aream of a uniform quali.
ty.y Puere has never been a cause for
plaint at this factory regarding
quality.
All the cream is paid for on the basis
of its butterfat teat, the price paid per
market,
hundred pounds of e¢ream
delivered to the factory from the six
farms and approximately 150 pounds
of butter ure made. The larg st daily
output of the factory during the yeur
ranges around 500 pounds of
quality butter. The
four cents a pound above Elgin
the year round.
“I wonder if you could let
a couple of pounds of this
take home with "m1
butter-maker,
high-
have
butter to
me
me asked the
he replied, "Lut each day every pound
of our output is sold before it is even
made, There is a big local demand
for our butiter, and even if we
daily turning out five times
as wo areright
were
BS mug
now we should meet
with little trouble in disposing of it 7’
This six-farm factory sold ab 2) -
000 pounds of butter during
the current salea promise to
If the plant included a
many
like to
nt
1911
he van
and
greater.
separator
IArTEe
of the other local
farms would market their
cream there; but as is thelr owners
ol j ot to maintaining hand separalors
snd separatiog the milk on their home
farms fhe owners of the fat
not bemoaning this l«eck of apprecia-
tion of the prj»
the factory is efficiently sary
purpose for which it was de
st by their neighbors ;
the
and
ne
igned
at least six farms of this Northern
[ilinois region are reslizing
tive profit from their
an Aattrac-
dairving opers
ning
reta K
tions, as well as
milk snd buttermilk fo
cif and swine men
The 1
and
$2000
gtruciure about 40 b
na
and, house, sctory bulldir
: ly
cquipme: cost ox imal
winaratehinek
Io
Fhe factory is
addi-
tion to the churn ro
amsll engine room w tailing a
that
rating
bs ry
gix-horse.power gasoline engi
for op
a
ne
furnishes all the power
well as arate en
The
witli Aan
the machinery as
ing and s'orage rooms cooling
rom is supplied abundance
of epring wat-r that is clear as ervalal,
furnishes 8» much eold
at
nad ‘a
This spring
ti
of ie th
have ta be
Fhe wooden
' 10
meity of 120
that
water
otherwise would
184 moun
lessened,
measurably
fee house has 8 0a tons
§
and is filled once a8 year
The churn room cqquipped
which makes
modern machinery
production of superior butter an actual
ity
equipment
rather than a possibility, The
incluleas a large otary
large
wk
paraphernsiia of the
churn, two cream vata, 8 WARK
box, scales, printer, a Babe testing
outfit and similar
creamery. A
up-to-date notable
feature of thia factory Is that it i
erated and mansged by only one but-
ter-maker
The buttermilk is «
between the f
Bix farmers «
they carry
divided
gch
their
jin iy
day
it bse to
where it ia fed,
farme,
hie batter is
ph ked
in fancy cartons ws and sold
private trade or
or in
t
i
local hotels,
0 the
restaurants and grocery stores,
————— A —————
Th otch peer, the Bari
of Levon, who rebuked a snip news re
3 * nim by deciar-
it sprouting S
reertor whan or
ing that “no gentien
anoth without
iO ever speaks wo
it
isn't done.” is an o friend of
Francis Australian
that | wan't
the Levon, but he
know ti
British
er
simply
Janes Dwyer, the
novelist 8
ally E
Knows his sweetly
*1 ought to,” sald
broke in London and learned to
know the true Briton Once 1 an-
swered an advert went for a literary
secretary 'v make certain that my
letter would read 1 wired the
vertiser as follows:
“Do not engage a literary secretary
until you have read my letter of ap-
plication.’
“That letter was a gem.
would land the place with it sare. 1
was certain of it when a large, square
Dwyer d actu
irl of
sort,
“1
be
ed address at a given hour, It was a
RL squandered the fourpence without a
miserly thought. A
ushered me into a black oak library,
where the original stuffed
John Bull gat at a table. [| sat down
meekly and waited to be spoken to,
“Blam! He hit the
elinched hand,
* ‘You cannot dictate to an English-
man,’ sald this old image.
* ‘No, sir,’ 1 said.
**1 tell you,” he shouted, ‘you cannot
dictate to an Englishman!’
* ‘Certainly not,’ 1 said
“‘But you tried to,’ he said,
sent we this impertinent telegram.
Englishman wonld have done that.
was an American trick.’
“I tried to soothe him, for 1 wanted
that job. Hut he got hotter and hotter.
Finally be told me outright that he had
hired a young man who once had work:
ed for a lord. .
"1 bave sent for you,’ sald he, ‘and
you should be grateful to me in order
to teach you a proper respect for the
traditions of England and for the Brit
ish flag.’
* ‘You old fossil,’ sald I “If I had a
British flag here I'd tear it in two and
choke you to death with it.’ "~Chicago
News,
“What on earth made you buy that
comfortable when we have more how
in the house than we need?’ i
“] guess it was because [| saw It
marked ‘down.’ "Exchange.
wo.
‘You
it
FUN FOR THE ROWDIES.
Revelries of the Mohocks In London In
the Old Days.
us particulars of the dan-
in the old days
“Ihe
i i
Seow
British
1etice of the
gome tavern
ut the
sroprietor and his
ClUS-
nises and,
) all, roa : | the
Mahocks, one whose istimes was
to ] and roll
them down 1712 a roy-
al |
rew
any M
of
wroclnmation wi i ( offering a
rd of £1 » apprehension of
of
1820 there
ncecession
i
HADOW OF THE MOON.
its Rapidity Shown In
Pr
torit
ing
tra
afforded
det
but
come. the m
min
intieriy
.
purpose
How He Lost
ine n
His Dog.
“I've lost i
a German re
“Those dog cnt
“Mey be des
pound fe
him?”
“They
plied the loser sa
asked hi
took him 1 der yard,” re
New York Press
Perhaps She Was Skeptical
“Just my jJuck.’
“What's the matter now?”
10 o'clock last night.”
“And conldo’'t make it, | suppose?
“No: | got In at just 0:45, hut she
eredit for iL” — Detroit Free Press.
The Other Way.
“If 1 were younger,” sald the rich
old man, “1 believe | might win you
for my wife”
“Yes,” replied the cold beauty,
dreamily considering his sixty vears,
“or. say, fifteen or twenty years old:
er.” Philadelphia Press,
Continuous Performance.
Wigwag-—-My
Henpeckke Huh! My wife doesn’t need
nny platform. Philadelphia Record.
A AR. aaa
This world belongs to the energetic.
- Emerson,
——————— i YM AR
Advertise it in the Reporter,
!
E JUNK
Nith Eyes
Painted on Its Masts.
SOME TOPSY TURVY METHODS
The Crew's Quarters Are Aft, Not For-
Blandly Sets His
Course East South and Tells You the
Wind Is Blowing From West North.
ward, and John
ancient old world
Chinese, 18
in-
first
Chinese
rity, but its
been a
marine
mon-
Juhu
by be
that is.
View
carried
of for
eat and
passengers
deck nstend
ward below ihe
sleep near the ster The
are accommodated in the forward end
In China Plimsoll mark
and no government inspector ready to
check off the number of passengers
as they go abonrd Neifther there
any instance upon such requirements
ar life belts, fire dapplinness and life-
boats. When everything is ready John
starts forth on his vovage feeling safe
In the happy possession of his pratique
or clearance papers, wherehy he is
commanded to refrain from many prac.
tices. These Include about everything
from smuggling to the carrying of
stinkpots. This pratiqne also com-
mends his soul to the gods and bids
him an affectionate farewell and
wishes for a safe passage. Norman
aud Crew
there is
fi
is
It never occurs to fools that merit
and good fortune are closely udited.—
toethe,
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Centre Hall, Pa.
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