Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-03-26
COMMUNICATED.
rHE PROPOSED cREAMERY.


Nessrs. Editors.-Mr. Hawbecker, of
the Williams creamery, Franklin eoun,
ty. Pa, accompanied by Mr.. Davis,
who represents the Chicago Creamery
Association, visited Shepherdstown on
Saturday last and addressed some 90
farmers as to the advantage of the pro-
posed creamery. They both advocated
the plan proposed at the first meeting
of the Potomac Creamery Association
the gathered cream system, by which
each farmer who proposes to sell to
the Association cream is furnished the
Fairlamb can for holding his milk IN
Ill the cream gatherer for the Associa-
ton comes around and skins the cream
from the can. Their cans hold . GAL
Ions and cost the farmer $500. They
are to be kept in water as cool as can
be obtained until the cream rises. A
sample of the can was exhibited to all,
and the advantages it presents, as
proved by the experience OF MIR. Haw-
becker and others, pointed out. Inc
Creamery Association will purchase
cream from farmers within a radius OF
from 10 to IA miles from the point
where the creamery is located. and VIII
give the farmers from IA 10 Is cents per
guage for their cream-each gauge rep
resents the cream needed to make
Mound of butter. Then the farmer is
paid every two weeks about Is cents
cash for his butter-we may say by the
pound-selling it as cream, however,
saving the farmers wife the labor nee
essary to convert the cream into butter,
and the farmer the prospect OF taking
il to town anl there trading il to a mer-
Chant az from 10 to ID cents per pound.
All who furnish cream To the creamery
will receive their checks on the bank
every two weeks for their butter. The
merchants of Shepherdstown VIII re-
ceive from The farmers cash for goods
instead of butter, some of which the
merchants have 10 sell TO customers who
yrumLle al the quality OF the best while
lhey have often To make grease OF the
rest, for every farmer brings different
trade of butter. Under the system
there will be one grade of butter and
that the best, and when the reputation
of the creamery is established and the
highest prices obtained tor the butter,
then the farmers will be proportion
ally benefited.
A creamery established here removes
the drudgrry of the farmers wife, but
retains the income-a semi monthly IN
come-in cash-whle the farmer re-
tains the skim milk sweet for his pigs
and calves. The advantages of cream
ery to the farmers was so fully shown
that over eighty cows were promised by
the farmers present. Ii was proved by
MIR. Haw becker that when they once
began farmers never gave up furnish
ing cream, for they found that Is cents
for the cream equal to apound of butter
paid better than the butter and that his
experience had been that if they gave
it up temporarily, thinking they could
DO better, they al! soon came back to
selling to the creamery as paying best.
Mr.. Hawbecker has employed some IL
teams hauling cream to his creamery,
making hundreds of pounds of butter
each day, and says that they have no
advantage over us whatever.
An important item of income with the
farmer in feeding cows well, on rich,
cream producing food, is that each COW
in the year will furnish manure of the
best quality worth at the rate he pays
for phosphate $25. He is not running
his land down, then, by this enterprise.
but feeding it and enabling it to feed
him, which it will soon do by his being
able to keep more and more cows, espe-
cially if he will grow corn fodder and
ensiage. A combination of these makes
each COW that is good mixer first
class investment for the farmer both in
producing cash and diminishing bills
for fertilizers. The proposed creamery
must fail in being established unless
the farmers furnish cows TO sustain it.
IL is therefore hoped that all who will
sell their cream on the plan proposed,
will notify either the undersign,d I'd, A.
;. cambridge, f. |. Lee, Manning
Lemen, or Hess Rrinhart OF their in
tention to do so. Respectfully,
ID. d. PENDLEToN.