The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-05-04
Creamery Enterprise.

The following article is reproduced
from the Faribault (Minn.) Republican,
which will give our readers tributary
to the creamery all idea of its manage
ment.
"ln entering upon n new enterprise,
Its ultimate success depends very largely
upon q thorough and intelligent under
standing Of the same. and particularly
upon realizing the causes and conditions
which may produce failure in the
whole or in part of the business. In Or
der to give the promoters of the cream
cry enterprise and the farmers who NAV
become its patrons as much light as pos.
sible on the subject, we have gathered
such facts aus We have been able to
secure, and here present them for the
consideration Of our readers.
In the first place, the creamery bust.
ness, as generally managed, is not and
never has been q bonanza enterprise
for money making to the individuals or
corporations who llaye invested in it and
there has been mucl, money lost by per-
SONS who have undertaken to manage
creamerics without having first become
thoroughly informed as to their needs
and requirements.
The prime requisite for creamery is
to have a first class plant and the most
perfect machinery and appliances, and
above all 10 have butter maker who
thoroughly understands the business III
all its details. To supplement these it
is very necessary to have shrewd bust
hess and financial manager, who can and
will acquaint himself with every feature
of the business, from the testing of the
milk from the farmers cans to the look.
ing after the irregularities of the com.
mission men. With an A No. l butter
product and judicious business manage.
mcnt throughout, creamery can be
maize to pay reasonable profit to it.
proprietors. 1t is very profitable to the
milk producer, and supplies him with {:
steady and reliable source of casl,
revenue at all times of the year; it tcnd>
to keep farmers from running into debt
it increases the fertilityof their farms
it encourages an improvement in the
breeding of their stock, and educates
them in business and financial manage
ment, and as result business of ali
kinds is benefited.
In communities where creamerics arc
operated successfully there is never the
stringency i'll the local money market
which Is always sure to prevail ut Ger.
tam seasons in localities where farmers
depend almost exclusively OH grain pro.
ducts.
There are two systems of butter max.
ing in general operation, the one known
as gathered cream" and the other as
the "whole milk" system. In the frs,
the farmer sets his milk in large cans,
where it is kept until the cream gatllerer
from the factory, in his daily rounds.
comes ald skins 1t, giving the farmer :.
ticket for the cream, which is paid for at
given price per incll. the farmer re-
tanning the skinned milk for his own
use.
In the "wholc milk" or separator sys-
TEN. the milk is taken by the producer
to the creamery, where it il sold by
weight and paid for ut Il certain price
per hundred pounds.
The price paid for milk during the
past year ranged from to cents, for u
short perio'l last summer, to 81 per hun
dred, which is the price that has been
paid since November last. The farmer
patrons Of the creamery are well salts
fled with the profits on their milk, but it
was not 50 satisfactory to the stock hold
ers, for the amount o: milk received was
not sufficient to run the factory to its full
capacity, aud the lack ofcapi,aI to handle
the business economically, taken in con-
neciion with had markets, and some un-
forsecn obstacles, which eau he avoided
in the future, caused loss to the asso-
citation during the summer and fail from