Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-06-28
For TIE FARMER.
A Correspondents of the Rural New Yorker
Tells How to Construct Creamery.
A Few Necessarie,-A Good supply Of
Naii., Nuts, Rivets and Bolts.
srARTrG A cREANERY.


Nsn., Nuts, Rivets and Bolts
STARTING A CREAMERY.
A correspondent of the Rarai Nclt
Yorker gives the following description
Of starting a creamery:
In every instance where the creamcrv.
IS within q few hundred miles of large
cities the creamery run strictly upon
the co-opcratiyeplan is heSt;tha patrons
mav as well pin their faith securely 10
each other, and put their trust in good
butter, and realize all the proceeds Of
the cream, and share the profits.
Where there are from $50 to 200
COWS within "a distance of ten miles
each way in "a GOOD locality. creamery
can be run successfully. A good
creamery can be pat up and stocked
with all needed machinery for from
Sga1 to $1,000 provided the patrons
buy their own cans, which viii cost
from 80 cents to 81 per COW, each lotoi
ten cows needed can. The stock is
issued to the amount of the plant, and
is usually put out in SO shares.
The building committee get a plan
of the building from any wcll-knowu
manufacturing firm of dairy supplies.
The machinery Is selected from list
of supplies. Officers must be selected
TO run the affair but need ouly consist
Of an auditing committee and a sales
man; the latter may act as treasurer OF
the concern.
1t is best to avoid perambulatory
spectators. The farmers should CO.
fgt a
best they know how, and they will sue
coed us well as they would do in the
company OF strangers.
1t is best for the patrons to decide
upon a uniform system of milk testing,
bv buying cans all of one make. and
conform as nearly as possible to the
rules; for BY this plan only can high
grade Of butter be made. Good butter
makers can bc secured from almost any
Of the dairy districts of the Northern
States, aud ut wares ranging from $50
tu 500 per month.
The cream-gatherers will be one 20
about each 200 inches of cream col
lected The cream is taken oil by the
gathclers, and the number of Inches
of cream obtained from each patron is
credited to him. As the bulk of the
cream is not a safe rule TO 90 by as TO
the amount of butter it will ,hurn out,
samples of the cream are taken each
day and ITS butter yield determined,
and the exact per cent Of butter to each
inch of cream is placed to the credit of
the patron. This is more Just to all.
Each week on ofteuer, the salesman
sends the butterto the best market he
can find, consiguiug il to a No. | COM
mission house, who will SSH it on its
meritS. When the returns are made
Quoted from the amount received, and
the balance is divided pro rata among
the patrons. Every three months the
interest on the capital stock is deducted
and paid 10 the stockholders. Per-
sons not owning stock may be al
lowed to send cream, but instead of
sharing pro rata in the expense, they
usually pay three, four, or five cents
per pound for making their butter, a
trilic more per pound for making than
the patrons pay
Ii is always best to send to one COM
mission house as long a. possible and
establish reputation for the butter.
If thc patrons will "hold tugether''
and not get suspicious over every little
thing they fail to understand at first
sight. and believe that their salesman
is doing his best, and finally make but
ter in the winter when it is 30 cents
per pound. instead of in tic summer
when il is ~, there is no reason why.
in a section where there are plenty of
COWS, a good cooperative creamery
Will NOT succeed; and it will in any
event, tlkc the burden Of buttcr-mak-
ing from the daily duties OF .1d~td
wives, aud let one man "monc Il fur
a whole neighborhuod.' Furnish him
with GOOD cream, and rheu demand
good creamery butter as his part Of the
contract
Another element of profit is secured
by this plan. The buttermilk and
waShings Of the creamery can be
utilized for feeding pigs. At some dis
taucr away from the creamery a hog
ward is established, and enough hogs
are purchased to eat the slop. Grain
is purchased or furnished by the
patrons, and the hogs are fed; and Cnce
in about forty to sixty days they are
s1ld and new ones put in, and the
profits of their growth are divided up
pro rata Where the buttcrmllk is
thinned sufficiently with the washings
and otherwise, and a proper amount Of
grain is fed with it, it is valuable as
food for hogs, but fed clear il is not a
success rs ration.