Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-02-12
Twenty eight Oreameries.
HOW PENNSYLVANIA FARMERS ARE
SOLVING TIE ToO-CHEAP-MILK
QUESTION.

QUESTION.
We copy the following from the
Philadelphia Record. Why can't the
same thing be done in Centre county,
and with equally favorable results ?
The country along the Bald Eagle is
specially adapted to dairy farming,
and if conducted on this plan, could
Be made vastly more profitable than
the present methods of grain and
mixed farming:
On the 4th OF July last n number
of farmers at Quakertown, Bucks
county, who had for some time been
dissatisfied with the prices they were
obtaining for their milk in this city,
opened n creamery and commenced
the manufacture of butter. In spite
of some drawbacks at the commence
ment they secured fair market price
for their product, obtaining from 90
to 80 cents per pound wholesale. As
the months crept on the demand, and
consequently the price, increased,
until at the present time the Quaker
town men are securing 40 cents per
pound for tub butter and 45 cents for
print. These prices are so much
higher than individual farmers can
command that farmers all over the
State are looking into the matter, and
committees from all parts Of the State
have been visiting Quakertown and
examining its creamery.
The result is that hosts of cream
cries are springing into existence.
One at Blooming Glen, in Hilltown,
is now ready for actual business.
The concern was originated by a
number of farmers who. united to-
gether; one man gave the land and
others contributed toward the build
ings and machinery. Another cream
cry has been started at Solebury.
The Newtown farmers will have a
final meeting to establish 4 creamery
next week. Other creameries, which
have been begun, and which have
made more or less progress toward
completion, are at Spinnerstown, Mil
ford Square and Trumbowersville, i'm
Milford, and near New Britain sta
tion, in New Britain township. There
are creameries proposed at Centre
Hill, in Solebury; at Sellersville; at
Telford, on the county line; at Pleas
ant Valley, in Springfield at Locust
Valley, just over the line in Lehigh
county; at Springtown, in Spring
field; at Coopersburg; at Greenville,
in Buckingham, etc. The farmers of
the lower part of Solebury and north
ern portion of Upper Wakefield pro-
pose erecting creamery at Mark
Wismer's, on the road leading from
New Hope to Buckmanville. The
farmers in the vicinity of Danborough
have held meetings for the purpose
of organizing a creamery association,
and have chosen a site on the Doy-
lestown and Danborough turnpike,
near the latter place. A creamery is
proposed at Dublin, perhaps two OF
them one to the north and the other
to the south of the village. The
Line Lexington people are moving in
an enterprise of this character. The
farmers in the neighborhood of Spring
Valley, in Buckingham, are talking
of creamery. Yardleyville, down
in Lower Wakefield, has been dis.
cussing the matter. Four creameries
are talked of along the Perkiomen.
Two are actually in progress, and the
others will probably soon begin active
operations. Many such enterprises
are also going forward in other parts
of Montgomery, in Chester and in
Lehigh counties.
The effect of these movements will
be seen, sooner or later, in a consid.
cradle reduction in the amount OF
milk which will be available for the
city supply. The farmers themselves
say that they are tired Of selling
their milk for next to nothing, when
the cows product can be so much
more proftably employed.
FEEDING sheep cannot be too care
fully and scientifically done. 1t
shonld be attended to, as near as pos.
sible, at the same time every day.
Sheep, above all other animals, should
have variety of food. They are
naturally very particular about their
diet, are fond of dainty bits, and re.
fuse everything not clean and whole
some; they go hungry before they
will eat musty hay or grain, or that
which has been trod under foot.