TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. MARCH 6. 1919
I ported by the organization for a Cheese, made a short talk and dwelt
I minute. Let me say here that every on the early history of cheesemaking,
member of the Association who en­ his subject being "The Cheesemak­
ters Into a contract with a board of ing Industry.”
direstors of any factory is expected
F. W. Christensen, who has been
Jje Tillamook ' Cheese Makers' Asao- by the Association to faithfully per­ cheese inspector for the past ten
¡tion held its first banquet at the form his part of the contract, and years took up the subject “How the
lluinook Hotel . on Tuesday evening 1 nothing short of that will be satis- Dairymen Can Help the Cheese­
0 it proved a decided success. The I factory. We have a clause in our by­ maker.” this could be done by tak­
ing pure milk to the factory, which
riled guests were the members laws covering that point.
It is the purpose ot this association would eliminate a large amount ot B
uiprising the Tillamook County
B
feaniery Association and members to do everything in its power to help the second grade cheese. It was im­
the local press. The wives of both the cheese industry of this county, possible for a cheesemaker to make
gauizations also participated in the and we feel that the way we can do first class cheese front milk that was
,nquet and the music was furuish- most to help is in the improvement of off in flavor.
I by Wilkins’ orchestra. After the | the quality of our cheese. In this con­
Tillamook Dairy Development.
rving of an excellent course b.an- nection I wish to say that the num­
Carl Haberlach, the secretary sales­
ber
of
second
grade
cheese
manufac
­
iet, several hours were taken up in
man, gave the following account of in
leeches, the »tost important of tured in past years is entirely too the development of dairying in Till­ nJ
bieh was that of Oscar Werschkul. large, and this condition of affairs amok county. He said.
[County Agriculturist R. C. Jones is no more satisfactory to the cheese­
Dairying has been carried on for a K
¡ted as toastmaster, and F. B. Cul- makers than It is to the dairymen.
long time in Tillamook County be­
We as an organization have agreed fore any butter or cheese factories
■rsen gave the audience a royal
iloome, expressing his pleasure at that we will put forth our best ef- were operated on a commercial scale.
Douglas Fairbanks
Fred Stone
Mary Pickford
I forts to improve this condition. How­ In the pioneer days the farmers made
eing so many persons present.
| ever, to make much of an improve- butter on the farms and it was pack­ in
William
S.
Hart
Marguerite
Clark
John Barrymore
ru
fhc History of the Cheese Makers’ ment we must have the co-operation
ed in casks and sent to Portland and Ln
Cedi
B.
De
Mille
Elsie
Ferguson
George
M. Cohen
Association : Its Intents and Pur­
of the dairymen throughout the Astoria markets on schooners, whose
Charles Ray
Billie Burke
Lina Cavalier!
county. It is an absolute impossibil­ trips were, to say the least, irregular. nJ
poses.”
Pauline Frederick
D. W. Griffith
Dorothy Dalton
This subject was ably handled by ity to make a strictly first grade In the Portland market, the peculiar in
nJ
| cheese out of an inferior grade of flavor of the Tillamook butter gave Ln
scar Werschkul. He said:
Ethel
Clayton
Lila
Lee
Dorothy
Gish
The first move toward the organ- milk, so it naturally follows that if it a fairly good sale, although prices B
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Wallace
Reid
Bryant
Washburn
Shirley
Mason
ln
tation ot the
Tillamook County we are to make first grade cheese we received were small. That was be- ru
Enid Bennett
Vivian Martin
Dustin Famum
llnese Makers' Association was made must have first grade milk.
for butter was manufactured on a
¡une 8th, 1918, when a preliminary i I do not wish to be understood as commercial scale in the Northwest, n
Tom Moore
Jack Pickford
Enrico Caruso
lieeling was held at the Holstein saying that all of the bad milk de- and Tillamook butter was a consid­
actory, with seven or eight ot the livered at the factories is made into erable factor in the trade. In the
COMEDIES-Roscoe Arbuckle, Mack Sennett, Montgomery-Flagg, Mr. and Mrs. Drew.
grade
cheese, ,___
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but I do want early 90s several factories were start­
hci.-emakers front factories near second _
| you to understand that 1 when a ed, all butter factories, the earlier
riliamook City were present.
PICT0R1AN AND SCENICS-Burton Holmes Travelogue, Bray Pictograph.
A -econd meeting was decided upon cheesemaker succeeds In converting ones being started in Tillamook City.
md called for June 13, at the Tilla- bad milk into cheese that will pass Beaver and one on the Nestucca riv­
nook Creamery. Invitations had been as first grade he must do It at the er between WoodB and Cloverdale.
lent to cheese makers working in all expense of yield. If the dairymen The first prices I have been able to
>arts of the county and with one ex- would only realize that the cheese­ find as having been paid by any fac­
:eption all those invited were pres- maker may loose anywhere from one tories as by their published reports
jni. At this meeting a permanent to four or five triplet cheese In try­ is the Tillamook Creamery for the
orgai.izatior. was affected, an execu­ ing to overcome a bad flavor In a vat year 1896, being as follows. Pounds
tive board of five, of which the pres­ of milk, I believe they would exert of milk received during the year, 1,-
ident of the association is one mem­ themselves more to, produce first 804,370; pounds of butter made 55.-
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ber, was elected and a constitution class milk.
740; pounds of cheese made, 58,014;
It Is the experience of every cheese paid patrons for milk, >11,728.89,
and by-laws adopted.
maker
to
have
one
or
more
patrons
I The executive board was instructed
an average of 64 Me. per 100 pounds;
to diaft a wa»e scale to be submitted who rarely, if ever, deliver bad milk; average price paid for butter fat,
to the association for ratification. it is also their experience to have 17.08c.; average price received for
The Male was drafted and presented patrons who never deliver really butter, 17.04c.; average price re-
to the association at its next meeting. first class milk. What we need is ceived for cheese, 8.45c.
After being accepted the scale was I more of the first mentioned kind of
When you compare the prices then
FOX—Virginia Pearson, Jane and Katherine Lee, Peggy Hyland, Gladys Brockwell,
submitted to a committee from the milk producers and less. a great received with prices received by the
Tillamook County Creamery Associa­ many less, of the latter kind. There same factory last year for cheese,
Tom Mix, George Walsh.
tion, appointed by the association for is no good reason why we should not nearly a total of 5,599,418 pounds of
have
all
first
class
milk
delivered
to
that purpose. This committee pro­
milk and gross returns of >173,385.-
METRO—Hale Hamilton, May Allison, Emmy Wehlen, Viola Dana, Edith Storey, Bev­
nounced this scale satisfactory and it ' i the cheesmakers. If one man produc­ 27, you will see that the dulry busi­
erly Bayne, Francis X. Bushman, Harold Lockwood in his last four plays.
ís no» in force in nearly every cheese ¡es a11 ilrst clat*1’ milk, there is no ness of this factory at least has been
factory In Tillamook county.
reason why his neighbors should not growing in volume and value. The
HAROLD LLTOD COMEDIES AND PATHE NEWS.
The Cheese Makers’ Association
‘he same thing.
,
average price received for cheese
was first called the Tillamook Coun- ' 1 wish to Hay to the dairymen of last year was 26.46c. at this factory.
ty Cieese Maker’ Union, but feeling riliamook County, deliver to your The average price for milk was over
that they had made a mistake in the chesemaker first class* milk, Wheu >2.80 per 100 lbs. and butter fat
selection of a name, the cheesemak- ¡ you do second J grade cheese will be price averaged close to 70c.
ers decided to change from "Union” ¡ conspicuous by its absence, and you
For a long time most of the fac-
to "Association” and that 1 is the wl*1 have a greater yield of first tories were operated by private in­
name the organization bears at this Krade cheese. You will find the mem- dividuals, although there were a few
bers of the v Cheese
Makers’ Associa- factories that were owned and oper­
time.
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As wan to be expected, the associa- ,ion more than willing to > help in ated by the farmers. When I first be­
... some opposition
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tion met with
when'
every wnv
way that
‘hat thp.V
they can
can to bring came connected with the cheese fac- I
it became known to the dairymen about Improvement. along^this^Hne.^ tories in 1904, there were four fac-
that the Cheese tories owned by the farmers, Fair-
that there was such an organization
sb°w you i
in existence. The large portion of Makers' Association is to be some­ view, Tillamook, Red Clover and Ne- in
this opposition yeas due, I believe, to thing more than just a plain labor halem, and I believe that Claude B
a lack of information on the part of organization with raising of wages, Thayer had a controlling interest in B
the dairymen in regard to the asso­ as its sole reason for existence, I all except the Nehalem factory. A B
ciation. Some of them still seem not should like to call your attention to I year or two later and after the fail­ B
to be informed, as they should be, the fact that we Intend to make it ure of the McIntosh Cheese Co. B
and one of the reasons we are gath­ I under consideration a plan to score Gangloff & Miller and several others, B
ered here this evening is to give the it is practicable to do so. We have the farmers gradually obtained con­ B
dairymen and cheesemakers an op­ under consideration a plan, ao st»re I trol of the different factories. To­ B
portunity to become better acquaint­ I cheese that will be submitted by dif­ day the farmers directly control all B
ed in their new relations to each I ferent members of the association, at except the Mohler Creamery, and Mr.
its regular meetings. This should Zweifel operates this in all respects
Admission priceswill remain the same as in the past except on
other.
as a‘co-operative factory. Mr. Zweifel
“Special Features.”
The Tillamook
County Cheese prove very helpful to us all.
Questions that are of Interest to is paid a certain amount for making
Makers' Association came into exis­
tence to supply a need felt by cheese­ cheesemakers will be taken up for cheese and the marketing and in­
makers all over the county. The need discussion aB they arise. An exchange specting is left to the association.
For a couple years after I became cheese, whey cream and butter was strides because land was being clear­
of an organization that would have of ideas on the various plans of
as its aim the betterment of condi­ cheese manufacture cannot fail to be connected with the Tillamok Cream­ >1,352,694.38. This is more than a ed up, but this has beeff changed of their milk to the factories as often
as possible. We ordered the brand of
tions for cheesemakers, not with re­ helpful to the cheesemakers, and ery they would make butter part of million dollars over 11 or 12 years late. The last four years very few the association to be kept off of alj
especially
so
to
those
who
are
new
the season and cheese the balance of ago.
gard to wage alone, but with every
acres of land have been cleared up, four day old milk, or rather off of
the year. We have not made any
condition that effects the manufac­ beginners.
The country immediately adjacent mostly because labor has been high
The
legislature
of
this
state
recent
­
creamery butter now for 13 or 14 to Tillamook City is susceptable of and hard to get. Very little land has cheese made from four day milk at
ture of Tillamook's cheese. That this
the association meeting yesterday. It
need was generally felt is proven by ! ly enacted a law creating the office years except some whey butter at great development; ; the Nehalem been cleared up close to Tillamook ought to be kept off , all three day
of
resident
dairy
inspector
for
Tilla
­
Maple Leaf factory the last year. Valley is priducing about 10 per cent and large tracts of very valuable
the prompt response with which the
milk cheese, because the cheese
cheesemakers met the invitation to mook county. This is a measure that There have been times during the of what it is capable of doing, while land are filled with big stumps and made from three day old milk Is
has
the
approval
of
the
Cheese
past when it would have paid us the two Nestucca Valleys alone are logs. The farmers are fairly prosper­
join such an organization, and the
nothing to brag about. And when we
loyal support given it from its be­ Makers’ Association. We have work­ temporarily to have made butter, but capable of producing as much cheese ous and do not clear the land as put the name of Tillamook on our
ed
for
this
ever
since
our
organiza-
ginning.
ug. That
1 nat the
me cneeseinaneiB
cheesemakers had --
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. we have consistently stuck to cheese as is now made In this county.
they used to. The land is held at cheese, when you boys roll the cheese
right to form such tion was started, and we feel proud through good times and bad.
an uni questionable
Regarding the markets now sup­ high prices. Lately several drainage over the Tillamook stencil, you
1
.
.
♦ that wo
huvp
in a sma
measure, it
we
have
small
an organization there can be no
Since the dairymen have taken plied. Los Angeles is today our best districts have been formed, and these should feel that this is doing the last
doubt. That that right did not go is true, helped to bring it about.
over the factories, the dairy business
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As soon as it has been arranged, has made great strides and prices market, 21,825 boxes having gone will help considerable in giving thing and biggest boost you can do
unquestioned
is no reflection
there during 1918. San Francisco more grass. The big increase in dairy
the cheesemakers, with regard either the wage scale for 1920 will be sub- obtained and general satisfaction took 8,560 boxes, Seattle got 9,659 production has been largely due to to that individual cheese. Don’t roll
to their loyalty, patriotism or hon-.mitted to the Tillamook Creamery with the existing conditions Bhow boxes and San Diego got 3,503 boxes. phe last four years besause farmers it over with the Hpirlt that It is only
part of the day's work and an extra
esty of purpose, all stories and ru- Association for t their
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that the factories have been success­ Portland was our second best mar­ ! have been getting better cows and Job given you and for which you re­
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Cheese
mors to the contrary not withstand- before its adoption by the
fully managed. It is today an accept­ ket. During 1917 Los Angeles took considerable quantities of feed have ceive no just compensation. Rather
ing. If it was exercising good judg­ Makers' association. We ask and ex­ ed proposition in this county that an even forty per cent of our cheese, ¡been shipped in yearly. It has been a roll it over the stencil, in the same
ment on the part of Tillamook dairy­ pect your co-operation in this mat­ when a community wants to go in­ but did not take so large a propor­ i great temptation to keep the old cow spirit as you baptize your first born,
men to form the Tillamook County ter as we do in ail other matters to the cheese business, that the farm­ tion during 1918, largely on account I while she was still giving a large as you are naming the cheese and
Creamery Association, so that they that concern our mutual interests. ers will build and operate their of labor conditions. Seattle took I amount of milk and the heifers rais- sending it out into the world with
might market their cheese with more Let cooperation be the watch word ! own factory and thus control the about twice as much cheese during ¡ed were also kept. When no new lund its name written all over it. Let it be
profit to themselves (and no sane of both organizations, each remem­ manufacturing and selling end as 1918 as during 1917.
| has been opened up it has naturally proud that it is a Tillamook pro­
man properly informed on the sub- bering that one cannot exist without | well as the producing end. The
All factories for which I act as tended to make grass and feed short. duct. It cannot be sold for something
¡the
other.
We
realize
that
the
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different than .secretary salesman are members of The dairymen will have to get hay else after you give its baptism, ho if
ject, will say that it was not), why
——
shouldn't it be using good judgment cheesemaker cannot get along with­ the butter business. In that it does|(he Tillamook County Creamery A h - and feed from other sections unless you have any doubt of its having the
on the part of the cheesemakers to out the dairymen, and we also real­ not require nearly as much capital, aociation with the exception of the they clear up more land here, be­ proper quality, hold It up until the
organize their association so that ize that we are Just as necessary to . "
A small „
plant
can
be set up - for 'gandlake
factory. The
association cause the cleared land is now sup­ Inspector happens around. We would
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ouiiuiaxc
Idctuiy,
iuu
anpuuauuH
they might more profitable market the dairymen. Cooperation is the | about |2,500.*0, although last ye*r jhaB been engaged in both selling and porting all the stock it is capable of rather have it without the name If
what they had to sell, namely the la­ key stone in the arch of Tillamook s the Red Clover factory put up a ! inspecting cheese since 1917, before sustaining.. I believe that the ten­ there is going to be any question
bor of their hands and brains? success—past, present and future, in 'plant costing over 911,000.00 and
only inspection wan engaged in. dency will be to keep more cows and about Its quality, rather than have
Brains did I say? Yes. brains. A the production, manufacture and the Holstein plant cost nearly >15,-
-ou all know,
^now, the yield ot
of this is going to make the hay and the name Tillamook on a poor
As you
man who has brains enough to be a making of her cheese.
000.00.
cheese per 100 lbs. of milk has great­ hay buying problem harder from cheese. That is the big problem to­
successful cheesemaker, has brains • In conclusion, let me say that the
All the factories are owned by the ly increased the last few years. The time to time. It I k also going to call day. to Improve our cheese and not
enough to do many other things. attitude of the Tillamook County different farmers residing in that increased yield as against 15 years for higher prices for cheese and
to get our family name on cheese of
Though it has been said that cheese­ Cheese Makers' Association as re­ community where the factory hap- ago at last year's prices, would have dairy products produced here, as it whose qcality we are ashamed.
gards the future may be best illus­ pens to be located, Ali are stock cor- made over >57.000.00.
making isn’t skilled labor.
I is impossible to get cheap hay and
Cheese Haken’ Resolution.
We have been criticised for form­ trated by the words of the old man porations operated co-operatively, al-
We make what is known as Ched- feed into Tillamook. Several groups
H. W. Thomas then read the fol­
ing our association at a time when who, upon being asked to suggest a i though in one or two instances the der cheese exclusively. Our cost last of farmers have purchased alfalfa
our country was at war. I say that if suitable Inscription to be placed owners have drifted away from that year averaged 2,685c. the lb. for farms in Eastern Oregon, but the lowing resolutions which were sign­
you will canvass the membership of over the gateway to a cemetery, principle. The par value of the stock making cheese, or a total of >135,- cost of growing the hay and the ed by all the cheesemakers In the
our organization you will find that made this reply: "We have come to runs from >10.00 to >100.00 a share, 921.37. Our making charge averaged freight into Tillamook wMl tend to county with the exception of two,
who were not in the city:
they have been loyal and patriotic stay.”
nearly all bylaws providing that each 3.027c. the lb. cheese, total having keep prices up.
We the undersigned members of
and have been as liberal in their sup­
shareholder shall have only one vote, been >152,994.22.
The Response.
Here
is
where
the
cheese
makers'
port of every patriot'/ cause as any
Bea Kuppenbender, president of I regardless of how jmany shares a
association is going to have to help the Tillamook County Cheese Mak­
I
might
say
in
this
connection
that
body of men in like financial cir­ the Tillamook County Creamery As­ stockholder might have. Stock in
' In getting out a better grade of ers’ Association, do hereby pledge
cumstances. And further. There has sociation, made the responsive ad­ most of the factories is worth consid­ we have been willing at all times to !cheese so that we can get a premium ourselves that during the season of
publish our annual reports, prices
never been a time in the history of dress, who stated that his association erable above par, book value in one
j tor Tillamook cheese. Unless we can 1919 and all seasons following, to do
Tillamook’s favorite industry when had introduced a new idea in the or two cases being easily over 10 paid for butter fat and prices paid improve the general run of Tilla­ our utmost to make a first class
for
cheese,
in
fact
most
of
our
busi
­
cheese out of the milk delivered at
the cheesemakers could have forced system of co-operation by inviting a times par value.
ness has been In open book for years. mook cheese and practically elimi­
their employers to meet their de­ representative of the Cheesemakers
Dairying has been but partly de­ It has been next to impossible to get nate the second grade of cheese, it is the various cheese factories of which
mands, as they could have done dur­ Association, the cheese inspector, veloped in this county. We produced
going to be a hard proposition to get we may have charge.
We also pledge ourselveK to grade
ing 1918. had they desired to do so. county agriculturist and county vet­ over 5,100X100 tbs. cheese last year, this information from other con- a premium for Tillamook cheese over
cerns
In
the
West.
the milk more closely, to cull out all
The cheesemakers did nothing of the erinarian to attend the monthly the amount the association handled
Wisconsin.
You
boys
want
and
On a former occasion when I had a
kind. Each one lived up to the letter meetings of bls association,.
and Sandlake factory alone being paper on dairy development, I men- should insist In getting better milk,. milk which is off flavor, unclean or
of his contract and any move to the
P. S. Lucas, O. A. C. instructor of 5,3«,900 lbs. The gross value of tioned that dairying would take great Also insist on the dairymen getting
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contrary would not have been sup-
esemakers have banquet
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■f Gathering at Tillamook Hotel
and Interesting Talks.
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GEM THEATRE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR
SEASON OF 1919.
The management of the Gem take great pleasure in an­
nouncing to the people of Tillamook that they have singed
contracts with the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation for
their entire out-put of photoplays. The stars which are fea­
tured in these productions are ail favorites. Here are the
names of those who appear in the Paramount and Artcraft
pictures furnished under the contracts :
In addition to the above we will have 12 Special Productions.
The above will supply us for only four nights each week,
therefore we still retain our contracts for William Fox Pic­
tures, also the Metro Productions, which have established
their reputation on merit and are looked forward to by all
who are accustomed to enjoy productions of the higher class.
A few of the stars presented in Fox and Metro Pictures are
as follows :
With the Wonderful List of Stars and Productions which
they appear in, we can justly say : “No town in Oregon can
beat us in selection of programs,” as these are positively the
very cream ot all productions.
Tuesday, March ll--“Let’s Get a Divorce,”
featuring Billie Burke.
Thursday, March 13-“Bonnie Annie Lau­
rie,” featuring Peggy Hyland.
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