Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-19
Hydepark Creamery.

Mr.. Editor As you go out of Hydepark
village on the road going over the plains to
Morrisville, just under the hill by the cov-
cred bridge, spanning swift little stream
to the right there, with tallish steam pipe
issuing therefrom, is the Hydepark Creamery.
The building is not pretentious, the only ap-
pearance of its being the milk pan of four
hundred cows is tin receiver, held up by
pair of scales which rest upon platform.
Passing by it Qor the teams are not there
at this time, five P. ny, we enter the build
ing at the west door opposite the end next
the bridge. The entrance room at once as
sures you that butter is the article which
comes out of the establishment, for, though
the entrance room is not the packing room,
it is the depository of high heaps of tubs.
Through another door, after seeing that the
accountants desk is here, as we'll as tubs,
and you have the room where your cream
rises in those six vats having faucets which
at once suggest quantity to flow contained
within. We are just in time to see a vat
emptied. Both faucets of the vat are opened
and the streams of the blue tinted milk be-
gin to flow swiftly at once, and, falling into
conductor to which the floor on either side
slopes so it cannot run elsewhere, it passes
into the conductor out of your sight through
other rooms. We learn it is not wasted,
but that human appliance brings it around
to place where it can be easily secured for
those whose it is to take away. We care
not so much for this, being, like all Yankees,
watching for the cream of the thing. When
it is reached by the settling process of the
howage, before we can see it, down goes the
hand upon the brake of the faucet and now
it is shut back. Now for the cream pot.
A few strides away and return and the
man bears it,-a large one, as large as any
stove boiler in dimension we ever saw, and
out of one side of the vat, responding to the
turn of the faucet come six of such pals of
cream. On the other side of the vat directly
six more will be taken, and these will help
to make up to-morrow's churning. One of
these watts is used to keep the cream the night
till tomorrow. If twelve have come out of
the one we have seen emptied, we must add
to the churning for tomorrow the products
of the other four unemptied watts and we
have forty-eight more such pals to add to
the twelve and this is to-morrow's churning.
ave churn every day in the week except
Sunday" the foreman says. The churning
room is the next room. The swing barrel
churn predominates here, though the size
suggests the hogshead instead. But the
principle is the same whether it is small or
large, whether run by the arm, steam or
water power. This room is exclusively de.
voted to churning, and whether butter is
sold on the wholesale or retail plan we are
sure that the churning can be on no other
than the wholesale plan or appearances are
deceitful. The store room for the butter is
next and last. We judge that it is not
packed in the tub the first day, as to-day's
churning is there heaped up in washtubs,
and, though unfinished for market, goodly
sight. We have neglected to mention the
use of ice. OF course ice is used in all the
rooms. Tubs of it stand round in the
rooms in convenient places suggestive of
what we hear to be on the banks at present
icebergs. And ice is filled into the trough
separating in two parts the vat into which
the milk is first housed where the cream
rises. Indeed the creamery is a cool and
comfortable and rich appearing place, and
we found the occupants, who live in the
room we didn't mention, and which we saw
to be " as neat as wax and cozy" and hospit-
able as need be, cheerful and apparently
happy, having but one other desire and that
is to have next year six hundred cows in
stead of the four hundred. This hale and stall
wart man and his lovely wife, the presiding
geniuses who transform the milk into butter
and the country into the city, are sent us
from st. Lawrence county, N. Y, not only
we believe to make cash for " the Hinkley
heirs" but to educate to little higher
standard the worthy farmers of northern
Vermont in butter-making. H.R.H.