The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-01-16


difficulties were overcome Of educating the
farmers in his vicinity to keeping good
pastures and the necessity of cleanliness in
handling milk, he has been quite successful
in the enterprise, which has made him hand
some returns for his labor and outlay OF
capital. His butter has long had a gilt
edge reputation in Baltimore, and so pop
ular had it become that on changing his
print, after it had grown familiar to his
customers, they hesitated about receiving
it. supposing that it was not the product of
the same creamery. This difficulty, how
ever. was soon overcome, and the new print
became as familiar and as popular as the
old one had been.
Mr.. Bennett, it has been said, is the
largest butter producer in Maryland. For
the present his operations are not upon so
large scale as formerly, having reduced
his business, temporarily, during the win
ter months. His establishment is very
complete, being fitted up with the best of
machinery and driven by steam power.
When in full operation his two creameries
have capacity of ten thousand pounds of
milk daily, but the daily average received
is about 1000 pounds, and the daily aver
age of butter about so pounds. His butter
is all made by machinery and is never
touched by the hands Of the employees In
the process of manufacture. The creamery
is two stories high, thirty-fi by forty feet,
with engine house ten by twelve feet.
1t is erected over large and constantly
flowing stream of water, which gushes from
the base of high hill, and is of very
cold temperature even in the hottest wealth
er. The price paid the farmers for their
milk, if they made it into butter, is equiv
alent to from p to 20 cents per pound.
Mr.. Bennett receives his milk from twenty
five farmers, and the amount used, when
operating to the full extent, is the product
Jointly of herd of one hundred and sew
enty-fve cows, all healthy and vigorous
animals, which have the utmost care in
feeding and attention, and also in the pro-
cess of milking. He also manufactures
ice cream, in the summer season, and ships
milk and cream, but makes no cheese. He
is of the opinion that the increased value
of the product is not equivalent to the ex-
ira labor. The yield per hundred pounds
of milk he also thinks to be greater than
cheese-makers realize, and by returning the
sour milk, or butter-milk, to the farmers
for their pigs, he can buy the milk for
less price than if it were retained for cheese
making.
The lands in the vicinity are well adapted
to the dairy business, producing the finest
blue grass, timothy and clover, and are
kept free from noxious weeds which faint
the flavor of the milk and impart the faint
so received to the butter, lessening its value
in the market. Mr.. Benefits experience
in butter making has taught him that the
first and highest prerequisite in the produc-
ton of gilt-edge butter, is cleanliness. 1t
is also the last. Superior butter will al
ways command ready sale and good prices
in the market, and it has always been the
aim of the proprietor to produce number
one article Large creameries generally
have their butter engaged, and it is con-
signed to the parties who have thus pre-
viously engaged it. Such butter is never
found exposed for sale in the city markets.
To depend upon the ordinary sales of the
markets would render the business too pre-
carious and uncertain. A large creamery,
driven by steam, and producing with regu-
larity large amount of butter each day,
must have permanent and settled outlet
for its produce, else the proprietor would
be subject to great loss and to constant
fluctuations in his business. Mr.. Bennett
consigns to hotels and large boarding houses
in the city of Baltimore, who receive his
shipments by rail, with the regularity of
clock work In the lapse of nine years,
for six months of each year, the period of
shipment, his team has met the 8 o'clock, A.
NJ, train at New Windsor, five miles dis
tant from the factory, and never missed
connection with the train but once during
the whole time.
The enterprise is not only great. ad-
vantage to the neighborhood, but reflects
much credit upon its proprietor and pro-
jector, and helps materially to fill his Golfers
1t holds no inferior place among the many
productive industries that give to Carroll
county an enviable position among her
sister counties in the State.