Extra! Extra!: Butter Boom in Dakota County

Spring 1930: More than 80 years ago in Dakota County and the "Twin City Milk territory," the local economy was as much a focus as it is today. The staple of that economy, however, was a bit different. 

Articles from April 1930 published in the Dakota County Tribune explain a movement to support local dairy farmers by buying real butter instead of butter substitutes. And it seemed to be working.

April 4's "Use of Butter Increases Nearly 1000 Pounds Here" reported that the Farmington milk producers plant sold 922 more pounds of butter just one month over, with a 7,000-pound increase in the whole milk producing area.

The paper reported on April 11 that butter substitute sales were down, and asserts that "Prosperity in this county is absolutely dependent upon prosperity of the dairy farmer."

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