Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-03-15
SWEET SPRINGS CREAMERY.
Circular sent to patrons.]

1CircuiRr sent to PatfOns.l
The Sweet Springs Creamery located
at Brownsville, Missouri, will begin
operations about April 18th or May
LIST. Cream routes will be established
| at Concordia. Brownsville and HOus-
| tonia. and all the cream will be gath
cred within a radius of s to 10 miles
from above central points, by route
men, employed by the creamery COM
pany. The cream will be gathered
| every day during summer months and
less frequently during the winter. No
cream will. be gathered en- Sundays.
All cream furnished will be paid for
| every two weeks, or at the end of each
month. as the board may direct; and
the price paid wilLvary with the price
of creamery butter in the leading mar
kets. Each patron will be furnished
with all account book, in which tho
route man will enter the amount OF
cream skinned at each call. The COM
pany will also keep an account, and at
the middle or end of each mouth state
ments will be sent to each patron, with
an order for the amount OF money due
them.
The association will furnish each pa
iron, on trial for 80 days, a creamer or
cooler, holding from 4 to 10 cans each,
and at the end of this time, ifthsy wish
to continue selling cream, each one will
be expected to buy the creamer or
cOoler-payments on them being ex-
tended to so, 60 and 80 days if desired.
The cost of these coolers will vary from
$11 90 to 1922 90 each.
It takes lis cubic inches of cream to
make l pound of a butter. The cans
used are from IA to 20 inches deep, and
Sd inches in diameter and each can has
q narrow glass PANEL cemented inside
of the pail near the top. Two inches
in depth on these cans give 113 cubic
inches, or q pound Of butter. The
driver OR route man by looking through
the glass panel, can see how many
inches in depth Of cream there is on
each pail before skimming, and regis
ters it in his and the patrons books,
as before mentioned.
Only the cream will be gathered
leaving the skinned milk on the farm
for feeding purposes.
These creamers Or coolers will pro.
duce. from 20 to SO per cent. more
cream than can be obtained by setting
milk the old way, with one-half the
labor. 1t is a complete.milk house and
can be placed near the well under a
shed or covering. Plenty Of cold water
will be needed. 4
We will endeavor to call on each pa
tron within q radius of 8 to 10 miles of
Concordia, Brownsville and Houstonia,
within the next 80 or 40 days, and as
certain how many COWS each one will
furnish, and thereby learn size Of
creamer necessary.
We will also have q. rousing cream
cry meeting at Olympic hall, Browns
vile, Missouri, ON Saturday, March Is,
at 2 p. m. Col. N. j. Colman, editor
of the Rural World, st. Louis; Prof. J.
w. Sanborn, dean of state university,
and others, will explain to farmers the
advantages of the creamery system.
Come 0ut, farmers and bring your wives
and daughters along, and while here,
give us the number of COWS you will
furnish, and also your neighbors. Also
arrange while here for a meeting of
farmers at some schoolhouse in YOUR
neighborhood, and we will gladly send
parties to talk to you aud give the nee
essarv information.
While the enterprise here is compar-
atively new, there is no reason why it
should not be a success. Other places
have tried them and proved them sue
cessful and profitable, especially to
the farmers.
Many farmers are selling from $35 to
$50 worth Of ream from each COW
nually, and have their calves and their
milk left. 1t car be done here. Many
Of you will not do as we'll the first year.
But plenty Of good iced, care and shell
ter will make your COWS produce more
than the above amount.
The capacity of our creamery is 2,40O
pounds daily. We do not expect to
run it to near its full capacity at first, but
we hope that the farmers will awaken
to their interests, apd before long ena-
BILE US to run it to its full capacity.
Farmers, the success of the institu-
ton depends largely on you; many Of
you are financially interested in the en-
terprise. 1t is started not as a money
making scheme, but tor the benefit Of
both our town and surrounding coun-
try. Give us plenty Of cream, aud we
will be enabled to pay you good prices.
1t costs as much to gather a small
quantity, as it does more. Ii you can't
milk so cows, milk S. Do what you
can. 1t is an enterprise of much inn
portance to you and the surrounding
country
Give it q trial, at least, and induce
your neighbors to do the same. We
invite you one and ali to visit the
creamery as loon as completed and In
operation. Do not fail to attend the
creamery meeting at Olympic hall,
Brownsville, Saturday, March Is, and
be benefited thereby.
By order of the board.