Buttermakers and Cheese01

Waupaca Republican

February 13, 1908

BUTTERMAKERS MEET

Secretary J.G. Moore Sounds Warning to Farmers

At the annual convention in session in Milwaukee this week, Sec’y Moore warns farmers of the danger of centralization and Standard Oil methods being applied to the dairy industry in Wisconsin which are now in vogue in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Western Iowa and other states. Large concerns operating in the larger cities by bidding high for the cream in the neighborhood of a creamery will induce a sufficient number of farmers to ship their product and thus drive the local creamery out of business.

With the local creamery closed down, the centralized concern has the cinch on the farmer and may drop the price paid for his product to a figure to suit itself. Besides this menace to the farmer’s pocketbook, Sec’y Moore said that cream deteriorates in shipment and the butter of the centralized company is so inferior to that manufactured in the local creamery that it brings on the market three to four cents per pound less. Again the advice holds good: patronize home industries and help them and yourself to prosper.

CHEESE IT

The value of the output of cheese in the State of Wisconsin for the year 1907 was twelve million dollars. Wisconsin now has more than one thousand seven hundred factories. Those are located in fifty-seven counties, one of which has no less than two hundred plants. One and one-half million pounds of milk, furnished by four hundred thousand cows owned by thirty-five thousand farmers, were consumed last year.