On March 28, 1885, one of Wisconsin's first incorporated creameries was organized as the Luck Creamery Company. The organization's articles were published in Danish in the Polk County Press on November 18, 1885, and printed in English about a month later on December 12. Seven Danish emigrants declared that only members of the corporation could own stock in it, and authorized the sale of one hundred sixty shares at $15 per share. The first creamery was built eight-tenths of a mile west of here on the north shore of Little Butternut Lake. Its first buttermaker was a Danish woman who made butter in large wooden churns. In the early days, farmers brought their milk to the creamery in cans with glass tubes or gauges on the side, marked down to one-eighth inches. The cream shown by the gauge was measured and paid for by the inch, then skimmed off, and the farmer kept the skimmed milk. Many groups of farmers adopted the cooperative principle to make dairying a leading industry in Wisconsin.