Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-01-25
THURSDAY MORNING

Major Henry +. Alvorh of Houghton farm
Orange county, n Y, read paper on
" c, operation in butter making" advo,
eating the establishing of creameries. us
living u better and more uniform product !;
hat the work was much less and the ex.
lenses of making and marketing much
reduced. He contrasted the expense of
'Quipping and running "a cheese factory AS
compared with creamery, and the value
If the skim milk saved at the farm, which
{ man continued to carry away he was
Just AS surely carrying away his fam.
MIR. Alvord said the butter from Iowa
70 Boston, passing over the same rails from
It. Alhans to Boston rs st. Adams butter
loes does not pay three quarters AS much
freight from Iowa to Boston as ST. Adams
does to Boston, Western dailics hah
gained their reputation from wise
abandonment Of the old systems Of indi
vldu,l effort and taken to creameries
instead, and they HI the highest quotation
for their product because of its excellence
md uniformity. All the apparatus which
is necessary is the cream can for receiving
The cream, the churn and the butter work
rr ard nothing is left except the butter
milk, for which ready market can be
found.
OF course in such system an uniform
system of setting the milk is absolutely
necessary, as otherwise the cream product
would vary so much in quality. 1t is not
f 50 much importance wlpt system is
u,ed-unlformity alone is absolutely nee
"asary, Fr this system the deep setting
Is more desirable. as the cream is in better
condition for carrying to the factory. The
Ipper portion OF the q cam in II deep can
: much richer in butter than the lower
portions. A factory can be built and
cqulpped for 81 10 per cow after getting
,buve three hundred cows. One for one
hundred cows could be built and equipped
br $500. Tue r"suu has shown the
profit TO the farmer for his cream about
he same money rs be previously r. ceivel
Tor his butter. thus saving all the work ,of
mixing and handling the butter.
The net returns of II factory IN Hatfield
o the farmers for the last twenty months
has been from II 10 81 cents per pound,
while the returns from Franklin county
Mass, show That the dairy butter sold n,
N average of "a cents, showing thai they
received less than the farmers who carried
heir milk to the factory, though they had
lone all the work which had 10 the 9th /
Instance been done by the factory.
Mr.. Bliss read from a newspaper re
view of the butter, cheese and egg asso.
cations meeting at Cedar Rapids. which
vas severe structure on The Fairlaml
" stem, which, in he writer's opinion
must be decidedly modified or be speedily
abandoned.
Major Alvord replied that he had watch.
I'd the matter carefully and forty new fac
cries had been started near Philadelphia.
md he read statistics showing the average
Weld of butter to be about pound TO IN
inch of cream when the milk is set in the
FaIrl,mb Can. 1t hal not proved in the
f,ctories be had known thai the poorer
herds had got an advantage over the better
herd.
In reply Mr. Alvord said the uniformity
of creamery butter was In color, salt and
flavor, though 1t Was not as high favored
~ the best private diaries, but WIS above
The average Of q thousand private dairies
The old prejudice against coloring butter
WAS now exploded in market, though
some families now would prefer an affida
Wit with every package of butter that it /:
not colored, and in that we fully sympa.
thize with those families. '-
Mr.. E4lis of Brandon said that cream
kept at ffty-twoq degrees and churned at
itty-seven degrees will always give the
same quality of butter, which was dssented
from by the general shaking OF heads.
(ConclHded on Second Pd0e)