Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-19
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THE CREAMERY QUESTION.
LETTER FROM MR.. DOUGLAS.


for troubling you with tins creamery
question any farther. Very little more
need he said. In spite of his great eff
forts, Mr.. Dorsey has utterly failed to
controvcrt a single point | have made,
and in his last communication there are
only two points that feel called upon to
notice.
First. He would have your readers be
leve that it requires very little labor to
run Il Cooley creamer; Il mere pastime,as
it were. If this is the case, why is it that
SO many of them are thrown aside?
Three Cooley creamers to my knowledge
are owned in the town of Cornwall and |
think that is all Two of them have been
thrown aside for some years and the
third is to be the coming spring. The
wife of the owner of one of them told
me a few days ago that they were using
small pans instead of their creamer and
that they much preferred the small pans
to the dreamer.
j. III. Kenyon of Ilogansburgh, Frank
lin Co., y. Y, wrote me few days
since: "We were using the Coolcys,
which took such great amount of ice
and which called for so much extra labor
that concluded to test the centrifugal
process" 1t gave him so great satiSfac-
ton that he bought two separators.
These facts have come to my knowledge
without any effort on my part and | only
speak of them to show that the Cooley
creamerS do not save labor and many of
them, after being purchased, are not
used on account of the great amount
of ice and labor required to operate
them.
Second. Mr.. Dorsey claims that the
dairymcn get better returns where the
Cooley cream-gathering system is used,
and in proof cites the case of three cream
cries located in Massachusetts and Con-
nccticut and compares their returns to
their patrons with the returns of two
run upon the separator system up here
in Vermont. There is no Justice in the
comparison. To make it perfect two
creameries should be taken, located side
by side, with all the conditions the same
as to markets and cost of transportation
to market, one run upon one system and
one upon the other. The creameries he
cites in support of his claim are located in
Massachusetts and Connecticut. our two
great manufacturing States, where near
| ly every village has its factories Of one
kind or another, rendering them desira-
bic home markets where strictly fresh
articles of food of all kinds bring Il COM
parativelv high price, and especially is
this the case with dairy products more
than with anything else. they often COM
handing double the price that Just as
good goods will, brought from Il long dis
lance. whose maker is not known to the
consumer.
Without doubt these creamericS mono
polizcd their home markets, getting Il
greatly enhanced price thereby. while in
the case of the two Vermont creamerics,
situated IL long distance from market,
their products were sent to commission
merchants and sold in the open markets
for what they would bring. These facts
are sufficient to account for all the differ
ence in the returns to the patrons in the
two cases, and Mr.. Dorsey fails to score
II point here.
Surprising we compare the results of
Mr.. Dorsey's crack creamerieS with that
of the DaringtonS' near Philadelphia,
who make their butter by the separator
process and sell it, am Informed, for 50
cents pound in that city, making the
milk worth to the producer nearly three
dollars II hundred pounds. In all com
PARSONS surrounding circumstances must
be brought into the account. At New
Haven both separator creameres are es-
tablishcd in old cheese factories where
the cows for IA term of years had been
bred for cheese purposes and large
flow of milk sought without reference to
lis richness or adaptation to buttcr-maL-
ing, and, as II consequence, its value is
less for that purpose.
To offset the case of the anonymous
person who got about double for his but
ter in one month by keeping his milk AT
home and making il himself over what
hr got the previous month when taken
to the factory (Which believe to be Il
pure canard), | will say that Mr. Mahlon
TAYLOR of New Haven told me that his
milk was not carried to the factory fOI
one week and he found that he lost &c
lbs. of butter by the means.
TO sum this matter all up, the balance
of testimony is greatly in favor of the
separator system, when we take into tn,
account all the essentials, to wit; quail
ty, keeping quality and market value OF
product, together with the greater uni
formity of yield and ease and cost OF
manufacture.
Yours truly,
y. b. DOUGLAS.
LETTER FROM MIR. ENARTS.