Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-08-02
COOPERATIVE oAlRylNo.

A Coapeehousivo DeAnft1oo Of the 1o4O
sites for Fsfmers' Success.
Farmers may as we'll stand by each
other as to be ..held up" by specu-
lat0r. If they will discard all 1eai-
ousies, and work each for the interest
of all, there Is no reason why they
may not receive all the benefit Of . CO.
operative creamery. They can hire
good drivers and butter-makers as well
as any creamery man. and the profits
Of the latter then 60 to pay expenses
not running outlay in addition. The
buyer often deducts from four 10 six
cents from New York prices to pay for
collecting. etc. In small factory.
with long routes. this might not be too
much; but with the well-patronized
factory it would be far too great. In
other localities they propose to pay the
same for ian inch" of cream that but
ter sells for at the store-less than
half usually Of what creamery sells for
in New York or Chicago. Standard
cream should have its value appraised
at its worth for making the best cream
cry butter. 1t will hardly pay to
start q creamery with less than 500
pledged cows" The bane Of tho
creamery system is: patrons pull OF on
all sorts of excuses, some of them thin
as q shadow. The moro good COWS
the better. as it does not cost proper
tionately more to collect and make
from 600 or 1000 COWS than from 800;
requires only the same help and ma
chinery; the extra expense is In coli
lecting cream. packing. etc. In organ
izing . creamery on the cooperative
plan the exact cost Of building and
coupling it usually less than $1.5OO)
should be the capital stock. The stock
company with q. 900 to SIC, 600 capital
is usually sold at assignee sale-which
gives one party the money. and the
farmers the experience. Let such
alone. Let the farmers conduct their
own business of creamery management.
through a manager and salesman Sc
lected from among their own numbers.
Pay him a reasonable compensation for
the time he devotes to the affairs OF
the creamery. Employ the best but
ter-maker to be had, even If you pay
him $75 month. Consign the butter
each week to reliable commission men,
and stay with them and establish q
reputation; that's what sells
butter. Let unknown houses alone.
who send out ''sugar-cOated" promises.
The first thing is to decide upon some
system, and formulate regulations that
may be as nearly complied with as
possible. This should be decided on
sufficiently early. that all patrons may
be enabled to prepare in accordance
with the rules. This is necessary, SO,
that as uniform collection of cream
may be had as possible; for the closer
this is adhered to the better and more
equitable to all will be the result. and
there must be an observance of the.
rules throughout the season.
There should be uniform care and.
feeding of all the diaries Of the patrons,
TO get cream of as equal density as
possible, so that each patron may have
his share of the butter made. The
character of the feed has much to do,
not only with the butter-fat contents
of cream, but with its churnability.
Sample lots of cream of exact like,
measurement from different dairies;
will not churn out uniform weights of
butter: but if the cows are fed and
cared for alike. the milk set as nearly
alike as possible will give cream from.
each dairy that will fairly average
when combined. There is much
disagreement about the merits of deep
setting and the centrifuge for q
creamery. With the centrifuge the
milk must all be taken to the creamery
to be separated, which limits the area
of the creamery territory to bOunda-
nv of about four miles from the build.
ing. The freightage is about twelve
times more for the whole milk than for
its cream. While there is no doubt
that the centrifuge will get more but
ter out of 100 pounds of milk, the ques-
ton turns on this: Will the small per.
cent. of extra butter compensate for
the extra freightage over the cream
gathering plan? The route of the
is almost unlimited.
Creamery men here start often fifteen
miles away from the creamery to COLI
lect. Two or three routes will cOncen-
lrate eight or ten miles away. and one
team will bring in the combined col.
lectiOns. All this lessons expense on q
we1l-organized route, or routes, which
can not apply when milk is collected,
as it must be at the creamery. within
two hours of milking. The expense of
fitting out creameries by either
system is not greatly different, as the
separator in one case offsets the pun
chase of small cans in the other, VIII q
the fixtures of the two creameries .xill
be otherwise alike. Butter from sep
arator cream Is as good as that from
gravity cream, and keeps as we'll. Let