The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-02-26


Creamery. Dairy. Creamery. Dairy.
! Feb. S2ai 22T an ~
Mar 49,. 3l75 26I 500 90
Apr 3l2s PSI 29I 25I
. 1Hiy... 5GS I Is& f ~ 70 20
SSs Sep !. e IL ISs ~ 81
R RSsi';;, g g. ~ = 81 81
This statement demonstrates that the
creamery butter sold at the average of
from to cents per pound above dairy
butter during the year, the average differ
ence for the whole year in the two prin-
oipal markets being 81 cents per pound.
This statement is based upon wholesale
| quotations. Reference to the Homestead
Market reports for 1884 discloses another
important fact, that whilst fresh creamery
has been il active demand, dairy has been
sluggish. 4he gilt-edged butter referred
to is not quoted, as it finds purchasers at
from SO cents to sl.l5 per pound among
limited class of consumers, but as 1.-THE
product of such diaries is also limited
these fancy prices are easily maintained.
General advantages Of the system. But
ter can always be produced in large guam
titles at q central place by skilled labor and
the economy of machinery, by improved
methods at much less cost than in private
diaries. Butter SO made will be of uni
form quality and Of much higher av-
erage quality, and for these reasons it will
not only sell at better price, but the cost
of marketing viii be reduced to the min
| imum.
| The household is relieved of the great
drudgery of butter-making. The cream
does not have to be kept until almost
unit for the purpose in order that a suf-
ticient amount may be accumulated to
make churning, but the sources of supply
being sufficient, the churning is accom-
plished under the most favorable eircum-
stances gof the production of the best
artiele,and avoiding the eheesy smell of the
ordinary dairy butter, you have a product
| whose odor more nearly resembles that of
the tea rose, and of quality whose Qni-
formity leaves no mapbled Indications of
successive atratiAeatiop shifted into the
| resemblance OF uncomfortable strata by
the effort to give it shape.
Creanerfes are conducted upon different
plans Some are the result of individual
enterprise some corporations, and others
work upon the cooperative system, and
these are fast becoming the most popular
and giving the best profits to patrons, and
in my opinion Will be the best TO intro
| duce into our section,
{ In some OF these factories the whole
milk is purchased; in others, and particu-
larly in those which are operated on the
cooperative plan, the cream alone is pur-
chased, leaving the skim milk on the farm.
This is the most satisfactory as milk varies
enormously ia the amount of butter it
/ will produce, whilst in cream this varia-
ton is comparatively slight
Under the cooperative system the farm
ers form corporation or association, SUBJ
scribe the necessary capital, and elect
officers annually to attend to the business.
The factory is built and equipped and an
experienced butter-maker employed. The
milk or cream is brought to the factory.
manufactured. the product sold, and the
proceeds, after deducting expenses, in
Guiding per cent. on capital and usually
a small reserve fund. are divided monthly
among the patrons according to the amount
Of cream or milk each has furnished. In
Shis way they do the business themselves
at the smallest possible expense and get
all there is to be made out of it. They re-
ceiye their pay regularly and knew with
whom they are dealing.
Cost Of Crea2aery. cost of land,
spring, drains, Nc, of course varies with
the location, but the Wrapping Cream
cry, " which is built in the most thorough
manner, cost $4,000 The usual four
horse engine and boiler cost 100000; about
100000 was paid for all the fixtures. The
Amherst Creamery cost BoE building
$2700.00. The Salisbury structure was
larger and cost 100000. They are sup
piled with three 800 gallon cream temper
ing watts. and two No. Davis swing
churns, and from eight to twelve 80 gallon
gathering cans.
With good management, q creamery to
accommodate the cream from 900 COWS
can be built and thoroughly equipped for
$500. This does not OF course contem-
plate the tenement building necessary for
the employees. It will be seen from this
statement that the enterprise is not one
which requires a very great outlay. The
Mapping Creamery" started with sixty
five patrons, mostly stockholders. No
stakeholder can hold over 5000 of the
stock, every one of whom, still patroniZe
it, While several new patrons have been
admitted, and applications are made daily
which is proof of the satisfaction it gives.
1t has been claimed that creameries can
not be successfully conducted unless their
patrons are within radius of six miles.
But as matter of fact some western
ereameries haul cream 60 miles, while the
, Canton Creamery ofsConnecticut, finds
it profitable to gather cream at a distance
of Is miles over q road that is snow7bound
ordinarily in the winter season. Certainly
within a much..smalser radius a creamery
could be supplied in Augusta county, and
! the shorter the distance from which the
: supply has to be brought the better. Maj
Koiner called attention to the remarkable
railroad facilities inhisaddress Court-day
practically giving to an enterprise looates
(. within easy reach Of one Of these inter
saetipg lines q splepdid SCOPE OF eountr.
from which to draw it's supplies.
n And now as to thelpractical application
''the proof of the pudding, so to speak
!. Hor At pays. Mr.. stockwell, of Connect
!. cut furniSlleS.the following figures in re