Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-03-24
How is the Creamery?

often, that 1t may be proper to answer
il in general way. The creamery
is all right; the building is finished
and the machinery will soon be put
in. Feed being so scarce this win
ter, it was not possible to secure a
sufficient amount of milk to pay run
ming expenses, and the company de-
cided not to start before spring. The
creamery will be ready for operation
some time in April, and milk is Sc
cured from sufficient number of
cows to start with. But in order to
makethe enterprise a success it is
necessary that our farmers under
stand that it will be to their advan-
tage to 60 more into the dairy bust
ness, keep more and better cows, pro-
vide for pasture, secure more winter
fodder and hay, and in this way i'm
prove their land, as those few already
have done, who have been in the
dairy business for many years. No
body will dispute that the keeping
of milk COWS improves the land,
therefore the question a farmer viii
ask is this:
WILL 1T PAY TO SELL MILK TO THE
. CREAMERY?
| will answer that this altogether
depends on certain circumstances.
First then, it will not pay those who
live in town and keep one or a few
cows and can sell most of their milk
for household purposes at high prices,
and what little butter they make the
same way. Neither will it pay those
who live too far off or produce too lit.
tie milk to make it worth while tc
send it to the creamery. But it will
pay well all who have a farm within
reasonable distance from the cream
cry and either can produce milk
enough themselves to make it pay t.
haul it, or several neighbors agree tc
have one haul it for all.
The prices to be paid during the
first year for milk delivered swee'
and pure at the creamery will be
for April, Soc; for May, June, July
August and September, 75c per 1Ot
pounds; for October, Soc; for Novem
Der, $1.0O; for December, January
and February, $1.15 (if 1000 lbs daily
are received, $1.25,) for March, $1.OO
One gallon average milk weighing s.
lbs, or 100 lbs of milk being about IL
gallons, these prices will make al
average price for the first year o
at least Gle per 100 lbs, or u cent
per gallon of pure milk, which ough
to yield A lbs. of butter from 100 lbs
of milk, or lb. from 3 gallons, whel
all butter is taken out. Now, OF
most farms, where no butter conven
fences can be had for making butter
the same milk will not yield NOR
than 8 lbs, or possibly 81 from 100 lbs
and again, on most farms the summe
butter will only bring from 10 to -
per Id. But let us even suppose tina
a farmer gets 81 lbs. butter from
100 lbs. milk, and sells this at 15c
this still will only make 45c; add t
this about 1Oc as the value of the
gallons. skim and butter milk used a
food for calves and pigs, Cat whic
price all patrons can get what skin
milk they want back from the cream
ery,) and he still only gets 63c per 10
lbs, and most farmers will not aver
age that. The milk to be sure has
be delivered at the creamery, but thi
ought to be less trouble than tn
making and selling of the butter.
MILK PRICES IN THE NORTH.
If we compare notes with other sex
tons of the United States we find ths
prices received for milk in summer
time are considerably lower, averae
ing from 55 to Csc per 100 lbs, an
most of these creameries as well a
cheese factories, stop entirely for fou
or five months in winter, not one on
of twenty milk factories in tn
United States is running in winter
Don't this show rather in our favor
The greatest difficulty the creamerie
in the South generally will have t
contend with for some time, is to e
such large amounts of milk from
limited distance, which are necessar
to make a creamery pay as bus
ness. For awhile we must be sati:
fled when the creameries only max
expenses.
WHAT COWS WILL PAY BEST?
OF course opinions will differ. BIT
l say this, that any kind of cow thu
gives a fair quantity and quality {
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