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tion with this meeting of our association and we appreciate his activities, 

 judgment and energy in his management as state dairy expert, and we 

 earnestly request the legislature of this state to continue their appropria- 

 tions for the continuation and extension of this work, and we earnestly 

 request each member of this association to use all honorable means to 

 secure such appropriation. 



(The resolutions were adopted as read.) 



The President: We will now have an address by Mr. C. Han- 

 sen, of State Center, on "Hog Raising as a Profitable Creamery- 

 Side Line." 



HOG RAISING AS A PROFITABLE CREAMERY SIDE LINE. 



C. HANSEN, STATE CENTER, IOWA. 



Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen: I notice by the program 

 that C. Hansen was to deliver this talk. I will give him the credit 

 for the success our creamery has enjoyed in this side line as he was 

 manager for eleven years, and as he is my father he succeeded in pounding 

 the business into me so I am taking it up where he left off. 



I wish to state that this talk is not for the purpose of boasting as to 

 what we have done in the way of raising hogs in connection with the 

 creamery, but to show what can be done in this side line. 



Many creameries are at the present time disposing of their buttermilk 

 for a small amount of money, some as low as $25.00 a year, while others 

 are getting upwards of $200 to $300i a year. Possibly there are cream- 

 eries represented here that are making a greater profit from this source 

 than we are, but I believe, with all the advantages of hog raising in 

 connection with the creamery, it is the best method for disposing of 

 buttermilk. Not only does it pay the stockholder a good dividend, but 

 if the system is properly conducted, it is one of the grandest successes 

 toward holding a co-operative creamery together and making a success 

 of all co-operative creameries. 



"We have studied the subject until now we make each little detail 

 in our system have a meaning. The State Center Creamery is co-oper- 

 ative, owned by the farmers around our little city. We have 265 stock- 

 holders at $10.00 per share, and about 100 patrons that are not stock- 

 holders. A record is kept of the net inches (I say inches, as we are 

 on the old oil test) sold by each stockholder and at the end of the 

 year the per cent of hog dividends are based on number of inches sold 

 by each. The non-stockholder patron does not share in these dividends. 

 The reason for this is to make it an object for each patron to become a 

 stockholder. When a man has $10.00 invested in a creamery, he feels he is 

 a part of that business and boosts for its success. These dividends are 

 paid at the annual meeting in February, and as all know that is the 

 day that their checks will be ready for them, it has a great tendency 

 towards drawing them to the meeting, thus making our annual meeting 

 a success. Last year we paid a 75 per cent dividend from our hogs 



