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Bell, Florence C. (Florence Colfax), 1899- / Farmer co-ops in Wisconsin
([1941])
Barron creamery makes large sales of cream, pp. 12-13
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Land O'Lakes carries butter all the way to retailer, pp. 13-15
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the exception of the period of low prices from 1931 to 1935. In 1939 cream sales amounted to $555,000, butter sales were $265,000, and milk-powder sales almost $230,000. The total amount of these sales was the largest dollar business for any of the Wisconsin creameries. The association's plant is valued at more than $150,000. This is a stock cooperative which only pro- ducers may join, each buying a $10 share of stock. Stockholders who cease to be producers may retain their stock. Land O'Lakes Carries Butter All the Way to Retailer Cremneryfederations.-Land O'Lakes Creameries, Inc., with headquarters in Minneapolis, Minn., plays an impor- tant part in the business transactions of many Wisconsin cooperative cream- eries and other dairy associations. This well-known regional sales agency includes in its membership a number of local cooperative creameries in northwestern Wisconsin areas, and also the Wisconsin Cheese Producers' Co- operative at Plymouth, the Antigo Milk Products Cooperative, and the Consolidated Badger Cooperative at Shawano. In addition to selling for these associ- ations, Land O'Lakes Creameries and a number of Wisconsin members in Polk County established a spray-process milk-powder plant at Luck in order to utilize skim milk from these local creameries. This plant is owned and operated jointly. Lack of uniformity in the butter produced by local creameries and in different churnings from the same creamery results in lower returns. When butter is shipped by a local plant in less than carload lots, higher shipping charges must be paid. These disadvantages to a local creamery can be overcome only by standardization and joint selling. Dairy products were sold for close to 'a million dollars by the Ladysmith Milk Producers Coopera- tive Association of Rusk Count in 1939. The main plant is located at Ladysmith and branch plants at Eeland, Kennan, and Stanley. Milk is converted into butter, cheese, casein, and milk - 13-
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