In 1907, the Standish Creamery had a daily output of 650 pounds butter. It was only running at half capacity, labor or the lack thereof being the culprit. As one observer wrote: “One does not wisley undertake the ownership of a herd of a hundred dairy cows, no matter how profitable he knows it to be, with the likelihood staring him in the face of waking up any morning and finding his milkers all gone, converted overnight into cowboys, astride their horses and galloping away.”