Lincoln, Nebraska the Home of
Made it the Largest Creamery in the World Capacity 1 2,000,000 Pounds Per Year
Making millions of pounds per year
in our own splendidly equipped, sani
tary creameries, we are enabled to em
ploy the most expert butter makers,
who give every detail of the making
their most zealous care.
Such good butter could not be made
anywhere else.
Every particle of cream used is
carefully selected, thoroughly pasteur
ized and scientifically churned.
None but the "cream of cream" is
used in making
MEADOW GOLD BUTTER
It is always pure, nutritious and delicious.
This pure, delicious butter is immed
iately packed in a patented, air-tight,
odor-proof package that protects it from
all influences harmful to good butter and
enables it to reach the consumer with
all its delicacy and purity unimpaired.
ITS FLAVOR WINS FAVOR
BEATRICE CREAMERY COMPANY
HERE IN NEBRASKA.
The men who figure such things out
have figured that the center of popula
tion of the United States is somewhere
near Muncie, Indiana ; the geographical
center of the United States and its pos
sessions somewhere in the Pacific ocean
twelve or fifteen hundred miles west of
San Francisco, and the industrial center
up. around Detroit, Michigan, some
where. But when it comes to "centers"
Nebraska has them all beaten. These
same statisticians have figured on the
mental, moral and physical development
of the human race, and have located its
center the point where the human race's
best development centers. No, not Bos
ton ! It is in Nebraska, a few miles north
west of Hastings, and Hastings is al
most in the center of Nebraska east and
west.
NEBRASKA'S MILLING INDUSTRY.
the Missouri river, was second in flour
production with a total of 20,000,000
pounds. The milling industry of Nebras
ka is growing by leaps and bounds. The
reason is not far to seek. Nebraska wheat
is the best milling wheat raised. It is
used largely by mills in other states to
grade up the native wheat.
Between January 1 and December 31,
1909, the flouring mills of Nebraska
shiped by rail 210,000,000 pounds of flour
1,960,000 fifty-pound' sacks; 1,280,000
barrels. This does not take into account
the Nebraska milled wheat consumed at
the point of production. In 1909 fifteen
counties manufactured more than 5,
000,000 pounds of flour each. Col
fax count' led with 41,000,000 pounds
of flour and 21,690,000 pounds of mill
feed. Dawson county, 200 miles west of
NEBRASKA FINANCES.
The state of Nebraska has not a single
dollar of bonded indebtedness. It has not
a single dollar of floating indebtedness.
It has a" million dollars of state money
deposited in designated state depository
banks. State warants have been cashed
by the state treasurer on presentation,
without discount, for more than fifteen
years. The actual value of all forms of
property in Nebraska, including upwards
of $180,000,000 deposited by Nebraskans
in state and national banks, is upwards
of $2,000,000,000. The state owns, in
the shape of school lands, school property,
state institutions, interest bearing securi
ties and other forms of property, up
wards of $500 per capita. It is 'really
worth while in more ways than one to be
come a citizen of this great state.
PUBLISHING INTERESTS.
publications in the country the Nebras
ka Farmer, the American Homestead, the
Swine Breeder and the American Poul
tryman. It is also the home of The
Commoner, Wm.- J. Bryan's paper, and
of the Frieie Presses, the largest weekly
German publication in the United
States. Here, also are published several
insurance journals of national circula
tion, several educational magazines with
immense circulation, and medical maga
zines of note. Lastly, and by no means
least, it is the home of Will Maupin's
Weekly, a publication that modestly
speaks for itself in the presentation of
this number.
Lincoln has three great daily newspa
pers, The Daily Star and the Daily NeAvs,
evening papers, and the Journal, a morn
ing paper. The Journal and News are is-n
sued from the same plant by the same
people, but are in effect two separate
newspapers. The Star is the youngest of
the three, but has already made its place
secure, and is recognized as one of the
really great evening, newspapers of the
republic. The Journal and News are
steadfastly republican, and the Star is
republican but very independent about it.
Lincoln ranks sixteenth among the
cities of the United States in point of
originating second class mail-matter. It
is the home of four of the largest farm
In 1910 Cedar county, Nebraska, pro
duced 5,421,000 bushels of corn from 132,
000 acres, an average of 33.2 bushels per
acre. What county in any other state can
equal that record?