History of Wright County Minnesota,
CHAPTER XXI DAIRYING AND CREAMERIES--Pages 667, 670
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Clearwater, Silver Creek and Corinna Excerpts from :  
Curtiss-Wedge, Franklin.  History of Wright County Minnesota.  
Volume II.  Chicago: H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co. 1915.   
Call Number:977.6C94h

CHAPTER XXI
DAIRYING AND CREAMERIES

Page 667

The Silver Creek Co-operative Creamery Company was organized by 
the farmers, June 21, 1912.  The following items are taken from 
the annual report: 
Milk received, 84,079 pounds; 
cream received 200,153 pounds; 
average test of milk, 3.5; 
average test of cream 24.22; 
butter-fat from milk, 3,004 pounds;
butter-fat from cream, 54,1263 pounds; 
average price paid for butter-fat $0.3375; 
butter sold, $16, 396.47; 
buttermilk sold $150.61.  
There are some fifty patrons, owning about 200 cows.

Page 670

Farmers Co-operative Creamery Company, of Clearwater.  This company 
was started in the spring of 1912, and has been a splendid success 
from the beginning.  It is a model of co-operation in its truest sense.  
G. H. Wells is the secretary and manager and O. W. Osterberg is the
buttermaker.