Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-15
THE CREAMERY QUESTION.

lnat ne mas auOpteu tllc OHiV system, |
which is of any value to the dairymen of
this country, must emphatically dissent
from his view of it, What he says about |
associated dairying applies to the separ-
ator only, where one party owns and |
runs it and has the profit of the business.
but all others must bring their grist to him
every day, and usually twice a day, have |
the toll taken out and take what is left |
them. We advocate cooperative dairy |
ing, where every one who is a member
receives in proportion to the amount of
cream he furnishes the creamery; and we
also advocate the Cooley Cream Gather
ing system, by which each dairyman sets
his milk and raises his cream at home.
and the cream gatherer comes around
every day except Sunday in warm wealth
er, and only two or three times week in
cold weather, and skins the milk, taking
only the cream to the creamery, and lcav-
ing the milk at home in the best possible
condition to feed to stock
Mr.. ID. entirely ignores this system in
his remarks, or he wishes to mislead his
readers, for he says, lst: "There is Il
saving of one-half the travel to the pat
rons." Now in the cream-gathering
there is Il saving of nine-tcnths the travel
over the wholc-milk plan.
He says, I'd: ''There is Il saving of
one-half in the capacity of the buildings
necessary for the factory" | will only
say in reply to this that it requires one
fourth less capacity for Il factory where
the butter is made than for one run with
Il separator.
lie says. 3D.: "A saving of not less
than half the labor in the factory" and
cites VIM. II. Gresham of Sussex. New
Brunswick, as, with the assistance of
boy, having handled and made the butter
from 1000 lbs. of milk every day for the
space of two months. This would repre-
sent about 200 lbs. of butter. With the
cream-gathering system, one man. also,
will make 1000 lbs. of butter day. which
represents the milk from 100 COWS or
81 900 lbs. of milk.
18th: "A saving of thrcc-fourths the
ice" From his repeated reference to ice
one would would suppose it is Il very val
liable product: but don't know of any
thing in New England any cheaper than
ice. unless it is the rocks. If dairy
man uses ice he gets the best results from
/ his dairy. which represents a profit: or
/ if he does not use it. he will get the sec
ond or third best results. which repre-
sentS no profit, and often loss.
| And he says. 9TH: AN increased pro-
duct variously estimated of from ) to 20
per cent.
/ | persume there are systems, sO-called,
in which there will be that difference. the
one, for instance. which Mr.. ID has used
/ for long time, but if he makes that
statement with reference to the Cooley
System. it is all boSh: for the Cooley
System will get all the cream, every
time, without regard to the weather, and
Mr.. ID. will have to get smarter machine
than he ever has or will get, to beat it.
The Cooley has the best record of any
system in existence, for separating an
the fat from the milk
And 9Th, he says: The making of II
product not eXcelled in any respect by
the product of any other system
OF course this is a logical conclusion,
when ones starting-point is that all other
systems are comparative worthless: but
| what has no N saw of tba lnn,r LIST nf on la
and silver medals and first premiums
given to the product of the Cooley Sys-
TEN, over all competitors, for several
years and up to the present time: 1t GER
tainly looks as if there was some merit
in this comparatively worthless system.
In reviewing his statements. he CON
cedes that he knows nothing about Il
separator personally, but has to take the
word of some other interested party. and
he says: First, As to the saving of
travel to the patrons: - that two factories
received the milk only once a day. and
for IA short time every other day. 70
illustrate the saving in travel we will sup
pose case.
There is Il creamery that accommodates
territory six miles square, and has 30pat-
rons and GOO COWS. SuppoSing ten pat
rons carry their milk one mile. ten two
miles and ten three miles for 225 days.
the usual season; now those patrons
travel 27,000 miles, Il distance equal To
II trip around the globe, and Il round trip
to Kansas City. In the cream-gathering
system, the cream gatherer would travel
CON the same basis) 200 miles. So much
for saving travel by patronizing separa-
tor. To Illustrate the advantages of the
Cooley Cream Gathering System, | will
say that one creamery will accommodate Il
territory which would require Il creamcr-
les on the whole-mlk, or separator plan.
OF course at each of the IL factories it
would require II building, separator,
, "A complete outfit of utensils and an eN-