Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-05-25
FARMERS, ATTENTION!
CIR e A M ER Y
CREAMERIES.
More Grass and Less Corn.

CREAMERIES.
More Grass and Less Corn.
Iowa has owe five hundred cream
cries, and there is no aso Of any
sort that they should not be proper
tionately numerous in the blue grass
counties of Missouri, in the midst of
which Audrain is situated. All that
is needed for their introduction is a
little enterprise at Mexico and other
suitable points.
The creamery is an advance upon
the old style of dairying, and the still
more antiquated methods of butter
making. Every farmer, and espec-
tally every farmers wife, understands
from experience, and without explain
alton of any kind, the drudgery of
keeping pans and churns in fit condi-
ton to produce first class butter in
Localities destitute of springs and
springhouses. Neither do those liv-
ing in the neighborhood of successful
diaries need to be reminded Of how
much their mode of gathering milk
and converting it into butter and
cheese simplifed their labors and in
creased their profits. But even all
these do not yet fully comprehend
and, therefore, need to be informed
that creameries 60 farther than dali
ries in producing desirable results.
A creamery sends for and gathers up
cream in place of milk. The latter,
therefore, is left with the farmer as
an additional source Of money-get-
ting to be utilized by being fed to
calves or pigs, to whose increase of
bone and flesh to the greatest possible
extent, it is of almost indispensable
Importance.
The parties most interested in the
establishment of creameries are the
farmers and their families. Instead
of keeping and churning their milk
into grease to be exchanged at little
or no profit for goods or groceries,
where creameries are in successful
operation, its product can be sold in
cash for as much as can be proper.
tionately gotten for the first-class but
ter made out of it. By substituting
pastures and meadows for corn land
danger of injury from bugs is meas,
urably obviated, and at the same time
the fertility of the whole farm i.
greatly increased. 1t has been cal
culated that the average yield of COW.
for six months among creameries il
$26, and that at the end of the yea
the calf, with the assistance of skim
med milk, is worth another 500.
The success of the creamery sys
TEN, nov so thoroughly authenticated
by trial, is due almost wholly to thu
invention of cans for receiving ant
keeping milk and gathering cream
The receiving can is made with a cyl
inder in its centre, furnishing tn
can of thoroughly cooling milk
and thus preparing it to throw uppur
cream. They also have flues for fill
ing and emptying. The gathering
cans are provided with air tigh
covers that exclude dust and othe
impurities in transportation. The,
are also so constructed that the cream
in them cannot be shaken up by til
motion of a wagon. Cream can
therefore, be hauled in them for lon
distances. Many creameries trans
port their cream over twenty-five
miles without injury to its produt
tiveness.
Our attention has been drawn t
this subject by parties contemplatin
the introduction of creameries into tn;
county. We have been informed tn.
if our farmers are willing to plede
their cooperation, the capital nece'
sary for their establishment will /
forthcoming. Already a number
prominent farmers have undertake
to furnish cream from IS to 100 Gov
each. From Investigations made, v
are satisfied that small farmers W
derive greater proportionate benefi
from creameries than large one
With proper cooperation there Dug
to be no difficulty in making fro
1900 to 1900 pounds of first-cla
butter here daily, for a considerab
portion Of which a good home mark
exists, while the balance could
readily shipped to either st. Louis
Chicago, and even to New York, al
other eastern cities for both consum
ton and export. We know of
other enterprises which are as certa
Of success as that of creamerie
Mexico has such railroad connectio
that cream from neighboring count
could be readily brought to it, a
our town thereby made as prospero
a butter centre as points in 9th
states possessing similar advantage
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