The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-18
THE BADGRR CREEK CHEESE FAC
TORY.
70 Farming Pay.

The Enterprise q Certainty-BuIldIng
Going Ahead and Cows Guaranteed.
How to Make Farming Pay.
The first OF what we heartily welcome
as q series OF cheese factories around EN-
poria, Is now so far advanced that its
completion and operation are certain.
We refer TO the factory being built by Mr..
NJ. NJ. Mason, upon bis 100 acre farm on
Badger creek, seven miles northeast Of
Emporia, and In the center OF one Of the
finest and best watered ranges In the
| State.
We learn from Mr.. Mason that the
main bull ling is 20 by 40 feet, two stories
high, the first story being Of stone. The
addition is 10 by 40 feet, one story. OF
wood. The work is being substantially
done, will cost about 1000, and the en-
tire building will be completed this
month.
Before putting up the building, Mr..
Mason contracted with Mr.. Langstaff that
the latter was TO take charge Of and SUI
perintend the operations of the factory,
and to put in the fixtures and apparatus.
Mr.. LangstaG has accordingly purchased
q hrst-class OUTFIT and Will ship it imme-
diately; also writes that he will start fer
here by the first OF next month, and
put the fixtures up and get the factory in
operation promptly after his arrival.
Mr.. Mason having thus provided the
building and secured the machinery and
hrst-ciaSs skill to run It, those points are
settled. And the no less important mat
ter OF milk IL alAo settled. Mr.. Mason has
100 cows Of his own upon his farm, and
VIII use 80 OF the best-aVeraging u
quarts each per day-for the factory. 300
other cows in that neIghborhood have al
ready been contracted for and may be de-
pended upon. This will do very well to
begin with. The factory will have the
capacity to use the milk OF 1 900 cows per
day, and II other factories are not estab
lished In this vicinity this season., MIR,
Mason hopes to make such ARRANGEMENTS
with the railroads that the farmers at too
great distance TO haul their milk to the
factory can ship It by raIl. The A. T..
s. +. track runs within half q mile OF this
factory.
The prices to be paid for the milk de-
liVered at the factory IL as follows: Frem
Dec. LIST to June LIST, % per 1000 pounds.
From June LIST to Dec. list, 81 per 1000
pounds. This is an average OF 80 Der
1000 pounds per year, or reduced to
measure, 2 cents per quart. A gallon OF
milk weighs 10 pounds. These are cash
prices. Farmers who prefer, can furnish
their milk and take pay in proportion
ate share Of the profits upon the cheese
made and sold.
The establishment OF the Badger creek
factory will, no doubt, set many OF our
farmers to figuring as to the adVisa biIIty
OF furnishing milk to It or other cheese
factories. Let US see how 1t will nay
them. Take Mr.. Mason's 80 cows, as one
example. He has for two years had their
milk made into butter, but goes into the
cheese making business because he 10 sat
ished the milk will be more profitable if
used for that purpose. He thinks they
Will average from June to Dec. II quarts
each per day. We think he has an extra
good herd for Kansas-though no better
than Kansas farmers generally can have
II they breed and feed and shelter proper.
ly. The milk Of one cow giving II quarts
per day from June to December, ami then
giving, say quarts per day, for four
months in the winter, will amount az fol-
lows:
$50 days at II quarts 100 ats.
l2O days at quarts ....... $50 -
Yearly total. 3I2Oots.
This at 2 cents per quart, will bring In
s62.4O per cow, or $4,9O2, for 80 cows. II
there is any other way of using the milk
Of 50 cows out in the country, that will
pay as well as this, we would like to pub
lish the plan.
But take COWS averaging only 9 quarts
per day from June to December, An q
quarts per DAY for fSur of the winter
months. Grant that this is the present
average yield OF the cows our farmers
could use for cheese factory purposes.
This would permit each cow to earn her
owner, $Si.2O per year-fully as much az
sne could be sold for and considerably
more than the milk would bring in the
shape Of butter, or PORK, or veal.
1t does seem.in the light Of these figures,
that the very best and most profitable
thing our farmers can do IL to pledge
cows for the use OF cheese factories to anv
extent. The vast areas Of prairie in sight
Of Emporia, ought to have 100 COWS for
every one they now have. There ought
to be as many cheese factories at work "a
the region would afford pasture and feed
to cows for. Any institution that will
pay 2 cents per quart for milk, is bound
to make Kansas farmers prosperous II
they will only do all in their power to
raise and keep the stock which furnishes
the milk. Then we should not be ship
ping corn to enrich railroads, but feeding
IL to enrich Kansas farms.
Farmers, have you half comprehended
the importance OF establishing cheese fac
tories herey