The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-03-22
THE CREAMERY BUSINESS.

WHO dlJeuueu I've Dut'N OOuNeutlOh /
recently held at Jackson, Tenn,
writes as follows to the jackson rrib>
unc and Sun.
We hire at our two creamerles six
teen men who can drive two horses
hitched to spring wagons. These
wagons are each supplied with COW
cred boxes, which are nearly air tight.
In these boxes each man carries six to
twenty>gallon cans furnished with
float and cover. These six cans will
hold about 40 pounds of butter.
Each of these sixteen men are re-
qured to make drive each Of twen>
ty i've miles through the country,
stopping at each farmers residence
along their line or route, and there
they go to the dairy house and meas
ure and skim each patrons cream.
No patron is allowed to disturb his
cream until our collector arrives, then
they both go to the dairy house, the
ere M is then measured and the pat
ron has entered OH his book the
amount of cream, the collector also
enters the same on his own book. In
this way, the collector visits from
twenty five to thirty dairy farms each
day and skins all the milk, which
in his judgment is all rightas To fa
vor and ripenesss. In summer We
require that the cream shall remain
on the milk twenty>four hours and in
winter thirty six hours before skins
ming, and we want the temperature
of the milk held ut MS near Fifty dies
grees above zero as possible in winter
and at forty five degrees in summer.
This cream is delivered at our cream
cry every night, and in winter is held
in watts and ripened still further until
it develops grain and sufficient
acidity, when it is churned, and when
rinsed free of buttermilk is packed
away with sufficient salt to flavor it
| to the taste. When the salt is tho>
roughly dissolved we take it from the
tanks. where it has been kept excluded
from the surrounding atmosphere for
several hours, and it is then worked
until it is solid, when it is packed in
tubs and sent at once to market.
Aud l may say here we did not have
"a package of our creamery butter
which passed inspection below extra
either in New York or Chicago
last year, and our last sale, just re.
ceived from our commission house in
Chicago, was two cents above the
highest quotations in the Daily Price
Current.
I OF course We make a large amour:
of butter daily, and our butter is
churned and worked by steam power
and engineered by experts who do
nothing else the year round but at
tend to their particular line of bust.
ness, We gather in the summer sea-
son between 1000 and 5000 pounds
Of butter per day in the form of cream
Now, rs to the price of cream, We
averaged last year about 20 cents pei
inch or pound at the farmers door
This was cash each day, and he ther
had his milk left him to feed his
calves and pigs, and each calf raised
this past year has been worth 81.
cash when eight months old. d
course | do not mean the pure bret
stock, but common grade calves
Every good dairy of cows will aver
age each year to produce 200 pound
of butter each, although we hav'
: many ill fed and poorly cared>for dai
|. ries which do not do this. Then tn
calf at $1,000 (and many have beer
sold at s15 and SIC apiece woul'
1 make the cow produce the value o
S51.00 cash. Good cows can bt
bought here for $4,000, and thus you
sec a COW pays for herself every year
We have diaries which do bette
than the above figures each year, bu
/ give fair average of our best dai
i, ries. Now, while our farmers ar
a working under far greater disadvau
o tages than the people of your state
yet they are making money and the
have plenty of time besides caring 70
their stock to cultivate their farms
and their soil is constantly improvin
e year after year, instead of going back
ward, as it must have been in you
country under the system Of cotto
raising which noticed while in you
, state.
d We have been paying for creal
q this winter, at the farmers door, 2
r cents per inch, Cor pound), and a
: though this has been severe wint'
d up here, we have kept the busine
going every day. even when the me