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    The Nebraska Dairy De
velopment association has
for its slogan, “Not more
cows, but better cows for
Nebraska.” That is a goal
well worth the efforts of
the organization. Nothing
short of the best should sat
isfy • great state.
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Omaha’s centralized cream
ery business has been built
by Omahans. The men who
have made this the greatest
butter manufacturing city
of the world have been
building Omaha for a quar
ter of a century *nd over.
The business is the product
of real constructive
workers.
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OMAHA’S GREAT BUTTER INDUSTRY IS HEROIC STORY
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Men Behind
Creameries
Had V isions
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(ireat Dairy Product Plants!
Here Are Result of Years
of Hard Work and Pro
gressive Managing.
Had Humble Beginning
By C. H. BLAKKLY.
/ How often the thoughts come to
nil of us as we stand before the
buildings that represent one of Oma
ha's great Industrial establishments '
—"how did this thing come?"
Then again the thought, who was
the man, who were the men? The
man and the men were there. Back
of the men were their thoughts, their
ideals. Those buildings, the great in
dustry, is but the material expression
of the thoughts, and the hard, patient !
labor that accompanied the thoughts,
12,000 Gallons Doily.
The Alamito and Roberts Sani
tary dairies combined, deliver over
12,000 gallons of milk daily. Dup
ing each day these two Omaha
dairies deliver 1,500 gallons of
cream to the people of Omaha,
The smaller dairies in and around
Omaha deliver about 7,400 gallons
of milk, house-to-house, daily. The
amount of cream delivered by these
smaller dairies from house to I
house is difficult to ascertain, but
a conservative estimate would
place it at 600 gallons daily.
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of the men who built that industry,
who laid the stone and the brick, who
erected the steel of what is now a I
series of great buildings.
We pass hy the magnificent estab- I
lishments of rhe "world's greatest
butter producing center" and look
upon it with unconcern. We see 35,
Ct'0,000 pounds of butter turned out
annually. OffPTi wo do nOt realize
tile human equation which makes
this achievement possible. We know
little of the men who have spent a
lifetime molding the present great
ness of Omaha's creamery Industry.
We determine to learn something
f'jout them. S
Look Behind the Scenes.
We raised the curtains of the bust
ness the other day ami looked behind
the scenes. We saw the presidents
of the various concerns who repre
sent the Industry and talked to them
about their life's work. C. F.
i'chwager, of Alamito, speht his early
<1 i,vs on a farm near Omaha. —
Hand-t burn Start.
/ He had his first experiences ns
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Largest of Kind in World.
The creamery industry of Omaha
pays nut annunlly for freight, $3,
280,380. Most of this goes to pay
the wages of railroad employes.
Consider this with the $18;248,000
paid back to the farmers of the
territory; add the amount paid to
employes in Omaha, *1,857,515, and
Omaha eati boast of an industry,
tlie largest of Us kind In the world,
that distributes $23,189,875 to its
patrons.
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manufacturer, behind the dash of an
old-fashioned hand churn. His mother
was an expert butter maker. She
supervised the work. He arose early
in the morning and quit late in the
evening.
"Those were the days of real
sport," Schwager said. "I used to
drive a team of mules into Omaha
and peddle butter from house to
house. I learned a great deal about
selling in those days."
Fairmont Head Tnllts.
K. T. Rector, president of Fairmont
Creamery company, became enthused
after a few moments and dismissed
the busy stenographer. For two hours
lie told about his 35 years service in
the dairy manufacturing business. He
went back over those old days when
hq. gathered cream from hand skim
min's In tlie days when great cen
tralized skimming stations were all
the vogue. The farmers hauled fresh
milk to tlie skimming vats and had
tlie cream taken out. There they
went home with the skim milk,
which often was whipped to sloppy
whey by the jolting of the wagons.
“The poor calves sure had tougli
sledding in those days,” said Rector.
“X have milked cows, hopped clods
the same as any other farmer, have
dreamed of great things and have
lived to see some of those things
teallzed,” he said.
First Hairy Student.
C. F. Schwager was the first dairy
student at the T'niverslty of Nebras
ka. 'When he sat on the edge of his
chair and told about the early days
down at Lincoln his fare broke from
pleasant smiles to frowns of regret.
He told abdut his work with A. L.
Haecher in establishing the first
dairy herd at the university, how
they made a Jersey heifer produce
292 pounds of butter fat in one year,
a record for those days which stood
for many seasons.
He curried the cows, carried their
feed to them. He laughingly told ot,
his first job after leaving college. An
old friend, Charley Harding, now
head of the Harding Creamery cord
pany, had been plugging for him with
one of the concerns in Nebraska.
Harding told Schwager to hold out
for $50 a month. However, it took
i week of deep thinking and a lot
of seif conviction for the young dairy
student to get up courage enough to
ask the amount. Finally he did so
nd got the jol) without a word.
-"It was a big raise over my last
work for my father, when I arrived
at the age of 21. I hired out to my
father for six months. At the end
of the time he gave me $40, Which
4 -lb. box ... $ .35
5-lb. box.65
12-lb. box- 1.25 ,
More Eggs or Money Back
The greatest, money-makpr and
baby chick life saver ever of
fered poultry raisers. Acts on
the egg glands. Makes all hens
lay. Supplies the mineral need
ed by growing chirks and laying
hens. Helps the baby chicks
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You take no risk. We guaran
tee that EGG-a-DAY will pro
duce more eggs or money back.
Hoc buys a month’s supply for
100 hens and often brings $15
estra profit. Results will l?e in
stant. Come in and get a paok
Hg£ of EGG-a-DAY at once.
Where 35,000,000 Pounds of Butter Is Made Annually
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t pper picture: Here are tlie building* in whirl) Omaha manufacture* and handle* 33,600,000 pounds of butter
a year. These buildings are the heart of the greatest butter center in the world.
I.ower picture: Taken upon one of Douglas county's good dairy farm*. These row* are tested for production.
They are making money. Hurl) herds as this one are making it possible for Omaha to produce 33,000,000 pound* of
butter annually.
put me through the first year of col
lege,” sakl Schwager.
Ilimliug Has Old Timers.
The Harding Creamery turn the
first one of the litg centralized con
cerns to locate in Omaha. When we
went looking for Charles Harding, Ita
founder, we found he was away for a
short vacation.
Ills right-hand worker snd old time
associate, 1>. C, KUlredge was at the
desk and said, "I dont know much
about this business, wish you could
talk to Charley, I hafe only been In
the game 21 years.”
While he was relating some of the
things which had happened to the
business since Its Inception the tele
phone rang, lie took down the re
reiver and then said, "Gladys, please
"hut off that typewriter for a moment,
I have n call from New York rltv and
the fellow seems to be s little deaf or
something "
When he had finished talking to his
New York representative he turned
and remarked, "Well, times have
changed oven In my young life. When
I (list went on with Harding we didn't
have to buck the whole world, our
manufacturing mi l hods were almost
as crude ns our marketing problems.
Hut today we are In the world mat
ki t. We use I In- lies! machinery poe
slide and put nut tin* product Ht a
small margin of profit. Volume of
business is our sole hope for profit.”
Huberts Would Karin.
•T. H. Huberts was In the city for s
few hours when we pulled the cur
tain* upon his concern He had the
"Information desk" send us hack, hut
said. "Now, young man, make 'er
snappy, f am sorry, hut you see I'nt
way behind ami niual leav* town to
nlifht!"
before we left, an hour Inter J. R
was looking longingly out of the win
flow and telling us about his plans
of running a farm, lie wild, "Wish I
had time to run n dairy farm my
self, do all the work, take care of the
cow s There is loo mu< h 'honk' he
lug fed the farmer, thinks Huberts,
lie believes (lie farmer, the' common
kind, 1* doing a tremendous lot 4>£
3,750 Carloads of Eggs.
The poultry business, which Is
closely attached to the creamery
industry, forms a part of the tre
mendous volume of trade executed
by the local concerns. The total
number of carloads of live poultry
handled in 1924 was 700 carload?.
Of dresed poultry there were 350
carloads. The freight upon dressed
poultry was *157,500; upon the
live poultry. *450,000.
A total of 3,750 carloads of eggs
came to the big creameries In
1924. The freight upon this Item
was *1,150,000.
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"He who eareth for flowers, eareth
also for Him."
A Seedsman’s Opportunity.
The Russian explorer, Kozloff, has
found skeletons of animals, fish and
insects near Urga, Mongolia, now ex
tinct. He has also found a royal tomb,
antedating Tut-Ankh-Amen. In It
there was tea and wheat compressed
Into bricks and ltlll fit for human
consumption. Now watch some enter
prising seedsman announce a marvel
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from this ancient grain.—Capper's
Weekly.
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Milk make* jrood chicken feed. The !
l*e»t result* can be obtained from fe^d- <
inr well balanced and sc ientific for j
mulas with milk a* 0 basis for :
protein part of tide diet.
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Fourth Industry in America
Dairying and the product* derived from the manufacturing of raw
milk to the fourth industry In America. The total'value of dairy cows m
America in'TOI* was *1,565,*77,000; all other rattle, *1,563,847,000.
Consumption of dairy products in America could !>» easily doubled and
still not use as much as doctors and nurses advise. That would be doubling
a tremendous industry'- Yet it Is possible. It show* the potential pos
sibilities for dairying. , j
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1 Omaha’s Annual Creamery
Payroll Is $1J)57J>15
$1,657,513. The Industry pays bark to the farmers of this territory $ 8,
248,000 annually. There was received at Omaha In 19.4 a total of 6,400
carloads of cream. The freight alone upon this cream was $7.0,(W0
Besides the butter sold within the state of Nebraska the Industry
shipped out 1,840 carloads to other points. The freight alone on this hutter
jfc a/l|g f)00
W It takes some additional materials to Keep the industry running.
During 1914 they shipped in 1.018 carloads, consisting of new machinery
and creamery supplies. The freight costs alone upon these supplies was
The byproducts, largely ice cream and buttermilk preparations totaled
161 carloads for 1924. The cost in freight for these byproducts was $.8,.on.
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point of view some years later. His
nephew Edward, was railed In when
we began to ask shout "row testing
association work " For an hour and s
half these busy men talked dairying,
market problems nnd production dlf
Acuities. Thev weie Just ss keenly
Interested In the future growth of the
Industry as they are In Its present
supremacy.
"Over production In the dairy Aeld
is ImtHisaihle," salt! Mr. Ktrachbaunv
"tlive the creamery men the raw
product* and they will find n market
for the finished artkle, "said Edward.
• 1. \V. Street, president of David
tfnle Creamery company, l>elievea ef
IMent production la on# of the htg
needs of the business today. Me
heartily endorsed the work lielng
done by the cow testing associations.
"If the farmers would look toward
economy In the production w# could,
perhaps, pay no more for cream, hut
We would be aide to handle their vol
ume as well as at present and the
proAt at the f irm Would he greater,"'
he said.
The coming year should be as
pruAtuhle In dairying as In any other
line of farming, think* Street, Me
declared the faimer who la jumping
In and ntll of dairying usually doss It
at the wrong time
"It I* the fellow who sticks to It
•is « business, who makes the most
money in the long run, ' he said, _j
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production* milking common cows,
but doing bo at low coat of produc
tion.
V”Without that aort of production,
otfp creamery business would be
without a supply," says Roberta. "If
I were on a farm. I'd keep books.
I'd know Just what it was costing me
to produce everything on the farm."
When we left, Roberts made us
promise to come hack and spend some
time with him shout that question of
"the common farmer." We’re gnlnfr
hack, lie has looked n little deeper
into the question of production than
most of the farmers. Ills Ideas have
much to do with the success of hie
personal business.
I,mil* K. Still in llnrnes*.
Louis Klrschhaum had his hack to
the door when we entered his oflice.
When he turned and faced us his
I kindly smile at once sent the blood
tingling. Here was a fellow who could
tell a lot of histoiy if we could get
him going. lie would know some
thing shout Omaha's business as a
I creamery giant
lie reached down In the desk and
pulled out a box of line « Igors. "Light
nip, then fire your questions," he said.
Through the smoke filled room, phnn
toms of the past edrne and went as
ha told a Is Hit the struggles of the ceil
trsltxed « reamer} business He cams
to Om.iho in IN?’.' Ills business was
estahlitfiicU from a manufacturing;
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Rector Cites Wisconsin—
■'Tin* row testing association* In Wisconsin, 70 of them, have made that
stale a dairy stnte. Nebraska has but three such associations,” said E. T.
Kector, president of Fairmont creamery. "The Nebraska Hairy Develop
ment association Is doing some very valunble work. It Is a step In the
right direction.” I». C. F:idredge, Harding Creamery company. "Too many
farmers are looking upon dairying as a llfesaver In tough times, the
business In Nebraska needs more men in It who are there to stay,” G. IV,
Street, president Davkl Cole Creamery company.
, "The creamery business turns more money back to the farmer than
any other business," lamls Klrschhauin, Klrschhaum ,1 Son*. "There will
always be bum dairymen, but the cow-testing association work will get rid
of a lot of them," C. K. Scliwager, Alnmito.
"Farmer* don’t appreciate the wholesale advice handed out to them
by white-collared, so-called esperts; what they want Is farts,” J. R. Roberts.
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