Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1906 — GO SLOW ON INVESTING IN THE CREAMERY PROPOSITION. [ARTICLE]

GO SLOW ON INVESTING IN THE CREAMERY PROPOSITION.

Rensselaer, Remington, and various other neighboring towns have had “experience” in the creamery business, and it has been to their financial loss and sorrow. This craze swept over northern Indiana some fifteen years ago, worked up by agents from the cities who no doubt made thousands of dollars out of it. Of all the scores of creameries established throughout this section of the state at that time not a solitary one, so far as we know, ever lasted five years, and from one to three years was the usual life of each. Several hundred thousand dollars was lost by the farmers who took stock in these enterprises, for they were losing ventures from the first, and in view of the fact that agents or creamery promoters are again trying to work this section of the state on the same old scheme, The Democrat believes it is its duty to warn the people of the rocks of financial disaster that wrecked the scores of creameries in this section a dozen years ago. We do not want to discourage any worthy enterprise, but we do not believe the conditions now are much different from the conditions then, and this section of the state is still too sparsely settled to make enterprises of this character pay. Think the matter over carefully before investing any money in this almost sure to be losing venture.