The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-03-12

The full pewtsf: of the factory which Wll
make it one ri the best paving concerns
for the amount invested that there IS IN
the line OF manufacturing Of amy kind,
and at the SAME time will pay the farmer
better than anything he can engage i'll.
One of our farmers kept an account OF
cream sold from three common cows
which, afterasnpplying the family with
milk and butter. and feeding the caves
from March to November, amounted to
S19.oa. Tie calves would bring at least
$1,000, each. We are getting 80 cents
pound for our lHltter at the depot ont here
In Missouri You no doubt could do better
in your State. You are close to the large
cities of tile salith and east. As you have
a fine grass country you will do well in the
creamery business.
Our creamery cost s65oo complete and
ready for running by steam with all con-
veniences.
In Iowa and other States where they
have been running creamerieS for several
years, mortgages are being lifted from
farms very fast which shows that it pays
the farmers to patroliize them.
Yours truly,
JOHN G.. SIMPSON.
The creamery above referred to is con
structed upon q system which is projected
known as the De Laval cream separator
an ingenious continuance for speedily sep
aratng the cream from milk by rapid CEN
trfngal motion. The profit per cow does
not compare very favorably with Mr..
Stockwel, of Connecticut, whose cows
averaged one hundred dollars each. AS
every dairyman knows, generous feeding
and iudicious selection of even native
stock will largely increase the profits III
his business. There is no danger that in
those Of Augusta county, when once they
are convinced of the profit arising from
this industry, conducted upon the i'm
proved systems now practiced viii not
make use OF every agency to advance their
own interests, and we will soon find more
careful selection of COWS as they are added
to the herd, and,such a system of feeding
as viii give the best results.
The Mapping Creamery to which
reference WAS made in a previous article,
received the cream Of 400 cows during
1884, and manufactured from 1900 lbs. i'll
winter to $500 lbs. il summer per week
The capacity Of the creamery is $500 lbs.
per week with 5000 lbs. as the extreme
limit in the flush of June. About 600
COWS, experience shows, will make this
amount. The wholesale price received for
butter in January and February was 50
cents March and April 35cents., Summer
price 30 cents, and no summer butter aeas
sold for less thai, Hprty cents The expenses
were as follows:
Wages of butter makers ................. Sl075.00
Cost of gathering cream ............ 1773.35
Delivering butter, including expressage l0i5.72
Insurance, taxes, postage .......... 25l.3i
Coal and salt..-. lsa42
Contingent fund "a c.. per ID ............. 207.0
Management and all incdentals... 1856
Total sales. Observation-Disclosures. s2S 023.6O
Amount paid patrons ........... 23.0lS.75
which apportioned equally among the 400
COWS estimated to have furnished the
cream. gives an average return of $57.62
per COW per annum for cream alone, the
skim milk being left on the farm. In this
factory, or Creamery, the Cooley system is
in use, generally known as the submerged
system. Mr.. Hartman Lushbaugh, of Staun-
ton, uses this system in his dairy with the
most satisfactory results, believe.
Under the cooperative system and with
the use of the Cooley can. the great adj
vantage of equality for all the patrons is
secured. The cream is measured by spaces
indicated on a glass guage, and the most
unskilled person can skim the cream to
nicely. The submerging renders it en-
tirely free from the objections to which
any process which brings the milk or
cream surface in contact with the atmos-
phere is liable, viz: The absorption Of
odors and that peculiar drying of the sur
face of cream which results in the develop
ment of cheesy matter. causing specks and
injuring the quality of the butter.
1t is possible to retain the cream pure
and sweet a much longer time in this way,
and us each patron raises his cream under
precisely similar conditions the element Of
| Injustice is reduced to a minimum. The
owners of Jerseys or good cows. get the
| benefit of their superior product, furnish
/ ing an inducement to improve the stock,
aud produce COWS which will give the
largest returns. Again, the patron living
nearest the Creamery has inc advantage
| over the one at a distance, as the expense
of collecting cream is borne equally by all.
The cream is taken from their doors and
! the skim milk left upon the farm. 1t Will
be seen, Mr. Editor. that we have in Au-
gusta county every factor necessary to the
successful management of creamery :,
/ that the original cost of starting such an
enterprise is easily within the abilities of
| our people that the profits greatly exceed
| those from the systems now in use, whilst
the labor incident to dairying is reduced
to the minimum And | trust that the
attention of our people having been called
to the advantages which the system pre-
SCENTS, their enterprise will make them
available. lam gratilied to know the in
terest which has already been manifested !;
it remains for that interest to take tang
ible shape, nal e. }. L.
South Rtger. Va. 54itI as