Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1891 — [Monticello Herald.] [ARTICLE]

[Monticello Herald.]

I visited the Rensselaer creamery last week. One only has to see the creamery in operation and talk with the .stockholders and patrons to be thoroughly convinced that it is a grand thing. Not a word of oomplaint against it except from some of the townspeople who grumble about the rise in the prioe of butter at the grooery stores. The stores can not get enough farmer’s butter to supply their trade. A year ago they had more than they knew what to do with. Nearlv all the farmers now take their milk to the creamery. It was hinted around that some of the stores weie quietly shipping in oleomargerine from Chicago. Country butter at the •tores was selling at 15 and 18 cents, while the creamery sold all they could make at 25 cents at the factory. . Tha 'armors realized $1.04 per hundred for their milk during the me nth of Janaary, and received back the separated milk. A gallon of milk weighs 8$ lbs so that it is worth about 9 cents. The avarage daily receipt is about 5.000 lbs. The company at present has only one separator of small size, bat their business is increasing and will be so much greater when spring opens, that they will soon exchango this for two of large size. Farmers at a distance only bring or send in their milk every other day in cold weather. The oommon expression was, “my wife never did better with the milk before. ” The price of cows has raised from $5 to $lO. Contrary to the experience of Monticello, the capital ■took of tha company was raised too quick, so that it was not distributed among a large share of stockholders. S. T. Virden.