Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-04-23
PAPER OF DAY COUNTY
THE CREAMERY r

all seem to think it will be a great
misfortune to fail; they sestn to
think il the creamery was only start
ed it would run itself, and send the
wagon TO every claim shanty where
there was q COW, and skim the can
of milk, leave the check and pass
on, and the farmer would have no
work at all, very much like the
Irishman who wrote back to the
Old country to his brother and said:
ssPat for .ire life of We hurry and
come over TO this blessed country
where the pay is gold and you have
nothing at all to do only TO take a
three corner box on you shoulder
to the top of a three story house,
drap the brick on the plak, for a
man there does all the work" Now
we viii take a serious view of the
! case and see who does the work.
The necessaries for q creamery are,
lust, good building with ice house
attached, plenty q good water, cos
ting with vats, churn and butter
worker, not less than $1,000, where
there is, say 500 COWS; 10 start with
less failure is certain. Then you
have just begun 10 pay out; where
the average OF farms have ten ows
in Iowa. II will take five teams to
collect the cream. Here is $50 per
month each, two men to tend the
churn work and pack the butter at
not less than $125 per month for
both, q total Of Sl75 q month, run
ming expenses. But stop. says the
farmer, we don't pay that, the cream
cry mar has that to pay, we only
| have to take our checks and the
cash is brought every month. We
will look now ut what the farmer
must do il he is q patron Of the
"cream gathering creamery" He
must buy his cans, fix a water-tight
box to keep them in, this box must
be filed with cold water from three
to Eve times a day, so as TO keep the
milk at about fifty degrees. This
water must be had or no good cream.
Now the man who gathers the cream
starts ont in the morning and col
lects from farm to farm, out On one
road and back on another, he may
come to you at any hour in the day
according. to the part Of the route
on which you live. 1t viii be very
convenient to you in raising calves
if you should be on the afternoon
part Of has route. Most calves like
TO feed in the morning. Then the
Swimming. The inches are noted on
ali the cans You have to skim to-day,
then he commences to dip off the
cream and he is quite sure to get il
all if he has to carry off as much
skimmings as he does cream; it
will mako the more buttermilk for
the creamery mans hogs. One point
more, the inch Of cream is 2 quarts;
it may not make nor than a pound
Of butter after the cream has been
carted in the hot sun from five to
twenty hours.
But get a box churn or barrel and
ohurn on the farm and you will get
from Ii to II pounds. In my ex-
perience in selling creamery tools
for three years, ! say without fear
Of contradiction, that the whole
milk creameries will make a better
grade of butter and give the farmer
the best pay. The wagon collects
the milk twice a day and carries
back 80 pounds Of SKINNED milk
for every 100 it gathers; but better
than both to the farmer, if he has
the water necessary for a cream col
lecting creamery is then to churn
and salt the butter in the churn, let
il cool, rework lightly, and put it
in sacks, and sink your sack ia a
barrel OF strong brine, and when
you wish to sell. take il out, rinse
the brine of and pack it in tubs or
print il in rolls according to the
want of the market you expect to
dispose Of il in. We are now using
butter made last June and kept in
this way, a good as creamery, but
we have the Clark pan and box
churn. From my experience / be-
lieve a farmer can make more bnt-
ter and better ON the the deep set
Ting cold water plan, with five cows
than with six the old way, and with
half the labor. What is wanted
more than the creamery is a market
where butter is bought with cash ac-
cording 10 its merit, the same as
wheat. This brings out efforts to
EXCEL and get the best price. This
can be done at a very trifling cost.
The Minneapolis Tribune Of about
a year ago. made this statement:
''The farmers Of Delaware county,
Iowa, get from eight to ton cents
per pound more for butter than the
farmers in any other county in the
State"
Here they left the reader to won
der why it should be, and l heard
some doubt the truth of the state
ment. The assertin is true; ! viii
explain. They have an unsalted
butter market at the county seat.
that buys it Just as it comes from
the churn after the buttermilk has
been worked ont. The farmer gets
from eight TO ten cents a pound
more for butter than any creamery
pays for cream. He puts his unsal-
ted butter in a brine, as ! have di-
rccted to keep the sailed, and if
held for a week or two, in u cool
cellar, the butter tones Ga. resi-,
and the buyer does not pay $50 per
month to collect TIE cream, or the
$125 10 churn and pack it, but he
can put twenty different marks to-
gether, salt it all alike, and it goes
as creamery butter. There is ship
ped from Manchester, Iowa, from
200, 900 TO 800, 600 per month; it