The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-05-28
THE CREAMERY BUSINESS.
How tosSecure Success.

means a place where the farmers
generally will take an interest in
having "a creamery started by Sc
curing milk for the same the year
round from a sufficient number Of
COWS, a convenient shipping point
near railroad, and an abundance
of good cold water, and if possible,
water power.
The place found, in what way may
the necessary capital best be pro
cured? Either by forming a stock
company of milk producers and
others interested; or a single party
builds and furnishes the creamery,
after having secured milk from a
sufficient number of COWS. Each
way has it's advantages and disad-
vantages; farmers mostly do not
like to invest capital in a new en-
terprise entirely unknown to them,
while they generally soon convinced
of the advantages of delivering
their milk to creamery, quit but
ter making or stock raising, and
get their pay every month accord
ing to the price for fine butter.
The difficulty in the last plan is
to find a party who will furnish the
whole necessary capital, and take
all the risk of the business; but can
such a party be found? Il do not
doubt that this generally is the
most successful way Of starting and
running s. creamery.
These points settled, it only re
mains to decide on what plan tc
run the creamery. The writer has
six years experience in Europe
and six in the United States, il
nearly all the different systems
The last and latest is not always thu
best, but in this case it undoubted-
! ~ is. The system to be introduc
ed in creameries generally, and es
pecially in the south where ice il
more expensive, certainly is TIT
Danish centrifugal separator sys
tenn" Its advantages over all othe
lsystems, especially where butter i
the principal product, and IN +
warm climate, are apparent. Thu
immediate separation Of the cream
without cooling or setting the milk
leaves no time for the milk to sou
and only small amount of ice il
needed for cooling the cream anC
shipping the butter.
In which manner the best profits
can be gained from the SKINNED
milk, depends on circumstances
| Cheese made entirely of SKINNED
milk is made entirely of SKINNED
many creameries now either feed al
the skinned milk to pigs or it il
returned to the milk patrons fol
feeding purposes at a cheap rate
or cheese is made only part Of
the year, when milk is most abun
dant and butter the lowest, whe1
the milk is only partly SKINNED
and q good half skim cheese il
made, which always can be SOLD
with profit. 1 am in favor Of
building on such plan, that cheese
can be made whenever profitable
and this can be done without much
extra expense.
1 will still mention one system
which is often spoken of as very
profitable. 1t is the scream gather
ing system" which is introduced
with success in some western states
The party running the creamery
sends out daily and collects the
cream from the farmers, the cream
to be paid for either according to
the measure or according to the
amount of butter produced of each
patrons cream Shy test churning
the latter is the only correct way
and each patron receives his Just
dues; but the disadvantage of this
system lies in the circumstance that
cream Of very different character
and quality, some sweet, some over
sour, is all mixed and driven over
the country roads in hot weather
all day before reaching the creame-
~, fair quality of butter may be
produced but never the highest
grade, which nowadays is a necessi-
ty in order to reach the highest
prices. Still under certain circum-
stances even this system may be
used to advantage.
One of the greateat drawbacks
for the creamery system has so far
been the difficulty in knowing ex-
actly the difference in quality of
milk from different patrons. More
and more the necessity is felt, that
in order to run successfully the
milk must be paid for according to
quality. This mode of payment is
now being introduced IN many
creameries and it is easily done by
churning part of one days milk
from each patron separate once a
week, and fix the milk price accord
ing to this average of butter yield
ed. Then the man who keeps good
COWS, who feeds and who de-
livers honest milk will be paid the
best, while the careless, and especi-
ally the dishonest, will get no en-
enlargement. Also it is an advan-
tage to farmers to find out if they
keep poor COWS, as this surely does
not pay them whether they make
butter themselves or sell their milk.
There are hardly any creameries
yet in the southern states and still
without a doubt the country is as
well or better adapted for this bus
mess than the colder north with its
long winter feeding. Is it not
time for enterPrising men to make
an effort in this direction? In 9th
er parts, those who commenced
first have been the most successful.
May not this be the first case here
also? The writer will give more de-
tailed information to any interested
parties. j. MoLDENHAWER,