Twelve Creameries in 1021 Turned Out 4,804,518 Pounds

of Butter Valued

at $1,040,871.90.

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NUMBER OF PATRONS OF CREAMERIES 3,870

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Statistics Relative for

Butter-Making in Brown and Nicollet Counties for Past Year.

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Minnesota is rightly called the “Bread and Butter State.” Not only does Brown county produce its share of the bread-making material-flour-but on the other hand its creameries produced over four and a half million pounds of butter during the year 1924. The flour and the butter placed on the market by this county will go a long way towards keeping the wolf from the door of the state. Not only does it do this, but its flour and butter are shipped to many other states and some reaches foreign countries.

Total Received from Butter

The one independent and eleven cooperative creameries in the county during the year 1924, produced 4,834,513 pounds of butter, which was disposed of for a total sum of $1,940,-371.96. This is an increase of 1,110,456 pounds of butter over the preceding year and of receipts in the sum of $324,520.01. The running expenses of these creameries totaled $160,439.92. This is $37,047.60 less than in 1923.

The patrons were paid $1,669,864.66 for butterfat. This is an increase of $193,816.37 over the preceding year. The average net price paid for butterfat was 43.94 cents. In 1923 the average price was 43.35 cents. But few counties in the state had a higher average net price. The highest was in Carver county, where the average was 47.56 cents. The lowest was in Lake of the Woods county, where the average was 37 cents.

Number of Patrons

The number of patrons of the Brown county creameries during 1924 totaled 3,870 and the number of cows, which furnished the butterfat, was 23,364. This is in comparison with 2,580 patrons and 22,250 cows in 1923. Dairy interests are on the increase in Brown county. These bovines furnished 12,496,983 pounds of cream and 976,234 pounds of milk, from which 3,808,199 pounds of butterfat were derived. The average overrun was 23.32% and the average price received for a pound of butter was 40.17 cents.

The twelve creameries, operating in the county during 1924, were Albin Creamery Co.; Comfrey Farmers Creamery Ass’n.; Essig Co-operative Dairy Ass’n.; Evan Co-operative Creamery Ass’n.; Hanska & Linden Creamery Co.; Sleepy Eye Farmers Co-operative Creamery Ass’n.; Linden & Cottonwood Creamery Co.; New Ulm Farmers Cooperative Creamery Ass’n.; Sigel Cooperative Creamery Co.; Springfield Farmers’ Creamery Co., and the Stark Creamery Co. and Minnesota Central Creameries, Inc.

There has been an appreciable increase in the number of cows milked in Brown county since the census was taken in 1923, as noted above, as well as in the number of patrons of creameries. Farmers are going into dairying more and more each year, and together with diversified farming will place Brown county agriculturalists in a position to withstand crop failures in certain cereals, which is of frequent occurrence, as well as depressions of a financial nature, which are also of frequent occurrence. Diversification is one of the greatest salvations of the farmers of the northwest and they are diversifying each year.

Brown County Journal,

October 16, 1925