The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-03-05
CREAMERY.
Facts and Figures for
Farmers.
Will It Pay to Build One
in Pulaski?
The Effort Now On Foot-Rsad the
TAefiTnorU

Mr.. j. M. Brent, one of the pro
prietors of the Chicago Creamery
Association, was in Pulaski several
days last week for the purpose o
inducing our people to build s
creamery. His is the largest cream
cry association in the world. anc
the fact that they have built 1,2OC
creameries and never knew a single
one to fail is sufficient proof that
they use the best system known
Those interested doubtless remem-
Der the speeches of Col. Smiley al
the creamery convention at Nash
vile last year and the strong tes-
timony there adduced of the superb
ority of the cream gathering sys-
TEN over others. Col. Smiley's
creameries are operated with the
machinery and under the plan of j.
81. Brent IL Co., as are nearly all
the establishment in the great but
ter states of the northwest. Did
the reader know that the butter
crop amounts to more than the
wheat crop? And yet, although
| Tennessee in pronounced the best
locality in the world for creameries
because of her climate and grasses
that enable creameries to run the
year round, that industry is almost
totally neglected and there are
hundreds of thousands of dollars
wasted every year-milk wasted,
thrown away, fed to calves and
hogs, cows allowed to go dry-that
might make our farmers wealthy
Mr.. Brent submitted all HIS pa
pers and letters to the writer's in
spection and gaze US a complete de-
scrlption of the workings of his
system. There are several plans
used in various places. The OILY
one that has ever been proposed IN
this country is the milk gather
ing plan. 1t takes all the milk
away from the farmer, and besides
depriving him of it, it fails to use
it proftably and thus wastes it..
Mr Brent's system only gathers
the cream, leaving the milk with
the farmer. The Fairlamb can
GuG ldIln uSS0 COOlS JnC
milk from the center and it thus
throws off any odors the milk may
have from what the cow eats. 1t
| leaves in the milk all the elements
for cheese, thus leaving exactly
what the calf needs to fatten and
make it grow, and the milk thus
cooled from the center and skim
med is better for table use than if
the cream was stirred in. Thus the
farmer gets the very highest price
possible for his cream and has all
his milk left for use.
In the butter states it is calcula-
ted that good cows average the
farmer SIS year and the calf will
pay for the feed. In Tennessee
this average will be easily main
tanned because grass grows much
longer. Creamery butter sells from
10 to Is cents higher than the ordi
nary butter. We notice at a recent
meeting of the New York Dairy
mans Association it was found
that the general average for com
mon cows, Holsteins, Shorthorns
and grade Jerseys was 242 pounds
of butter in eight months. This at
80 cents would be $S4.70 per COW.
A sensible man can see what would
be the possible outcome of a good
herd of grade Jerseys for whole
gear in Giles county if we had
good creamery.
The creamery sends its wagons
out twelves miles in all directions,
thus covering an area of "a miles
suuare-daiiy. The farmer gets
for his cream the full amount that
it will bring in butter in the mar
ket where it is sold. For instance,
if New Orleans is the market and
butter is worth 40 cents there, and
it costs Z cents to make and ship it,
farmers get 80 cents per gauge Tor
pound) for his cream. The profit
to the creamery lies almost entire
ly in the milk that is left when the
butter is made. 1t is said that
person who never drank creamery
buttermilk knows nothing about
0ood 'buttermilk. 1t is worth five
cents per gallon on the market or
to fatten hogs. Brent Il Cos guar
Antee D cents for it.
The cream gatherer calls at your
house and skins your milk and he
/ is provided with milk tickets in du
plicate and with a punch he desig.
mates how much cream he gets from
you and delivers you the ticket.
This Is good for cash at the cream
cry. These milk checks gradually
creep into and become a part Of
your local currency. A farmer
when he wants a dollars worth
Of sugar, instead of sending the
money, sends his milk check, and
the store keeper collects the money.
Thus the benefit accrues to the
whole community in having a local
currency of from forty to sixty or
a hundred thousand dollars = year.
! Times can never fiet tight for lack
Of currency, because this, although
absolutely good here at home. iS
good nowhere else and is thus
bound to stay in this county.
We learn these facts, and innu-
merabie others, in great part from
Mr.. Brent, who not only has the
sppeArence of being 8 solid, relis-
BILE gentleman, but has many letters
and papers thoroughly establish
ing his reliability. We have not
attempted to go into details OF
how butter is made, etc, but we
have papers, ETC., in our possession
which give information covering the
whole matter. AS we stated above,
this company has built 1,2OC
creameries in the northwest and
theirs is the prevailing and poPu-
lar system. They have not at.
tempted to work the south until
this year and Mr.. Brent has already
con tracted twelve in Kentucky. De
!, has been IN Tennessee only tive
} weeks and mas contracted one a
Clarksville, one at Paris and proba:
| bly ana of CoIun hia where he was