The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-03-22
From the National Stockman and Farmer
Dreamer es and Butter Factories In sh'
Middle States.


The subject of cooperative butter
farmers with increasing interest, par
ticularly in sections where the farmers
have been run down by the long con-
tinued practice of milk-selling, or hay
and grain raising. Either of these
practices, it is now pretty thoroughly
established, exhausts the soil without
returning anything to it.
Unless large quantities of CONNER
cial fertilizers are used, the land be-
comes less and less productive, until
farms that were once noted for their
large crops, and adding yearly a sur
plus to the owners bank account, now
afford scarcely sustenance for the re-
duced herds and the smaller family.
The farmers are becoming gradually
aroused to the fact that something
must be done, and already in many
sections they have found a way out,
and now the patrons of cheese factories
are investigating and coming to the
same conclusion that they are running
out their farms in the same way of SELL
ing off the whole milk, and
are getting no more money
for their diaries than the
patrons of the now popular
system of cream gathering.
THE CREAM GATHERING SYSTEM
has justly earned its popularity because
of it's equity, as well as the reduction
of the labor of the dairyman to the
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paid for according to it's quality. The
dairyInan who has a fine herd and
feeds high gets all that belongs to
him in the large production of cream;
also the dairyman who keeps the Or
binary herd gets only what his milk
produces. 1t is therefore just
method. This is shown up very forci-
bly, in the tests made by the Troy
Creamery given further on in this arti-
Gle. 1t requires less labor; there is no
carrying of milk anywhere from 1 to
miles. All this labor is saved and
more money realized. All that is re-
Guired of the dairyman in this system
is to strain the milk into the cans of
the creamery, lower them under the
water and wash the cans after they
are emptied by the cream gratherer,
who is the one authorized to call at
each dairy, raise the cans out of the
water, record the number of spaces of
cream shown on each can, draw out
the milk, then the cream, and carry
the latter to the factory to be there
made into butter and the pro rata
amount returned to each patron in
cash on the 18th or the Goth of each
month for the amount of cream fur
nished the preceding month. Cream
cries on this plan in New England
show average payment for the year
ending January 1st of nearly
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PER FOUND.
The LIE Raysville pa creamery
now pays patrons 3Oc; Troy (Pa.),
2Se; Wilton IN. H., 29c; Greenville
(R. L., 29tc; Mapping Conn.,, 29c;
Big Foot (Il.) &c. This shows an
average of % % cents for six butter
factories located in the New England,
Middle and Western states. Is this
not bright outlook, and does it not
furnish encouragement for those who
are not doing as well TO look into the
causes of the success?
THE LEMoNT CREAMERY
is located at Lemont, Center county,
Pa, near the Pennsylvania State Agri-
cultural College. The building is % by
So feet, including ice-house occupying
"a feet on right-hand end, with an
engine and boiler room in lean-to on
the back side. It has 14-feet posts, a
store room under the receiving room,
is papered and clap-boarded on the
outside, and sealed on the inside The
entire cost, including the foundation,
was $3.50. 1t has the capacity for
working up the product of 2,OO0 COWS.
Is run on the Cooley system of cream
gathering. 1t started last fall with
good success for a new creamery at