Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1888-02-11
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STARTING A CREAMERY.
The Cooperative Plan Explained
IN Detail.
John Gould in Rural New Yorker.
To organize q creamery-on whatever
plan-there must be cooperative effort
IN the part Of the patrons, and the more
perfect the ~co-opsrstion the greater will
be the success, 10 far a. 1t relates to
manufacture. Creameries may be ar
ranged In three classes, 20 far al organi-
cation IL concerned; the purely co-opera-
tive, the creamery built by patrons and
leased to q creamery man in some of the
many ways to disposal Of right. and the
factory built by a creamery man, who
builds it as an Investment and buys the
cream ofthe patrons paying either = fixed
contract price, or following the market
price Of butter somewhat in regulating
the prices of cream.
In every case whore the creamery is
within a few hundred miles-l00, 200 or
eyen 300, as the case may be-of large
cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia or
New York, the creamery run strictly
upon the cooperative plan 10 best, be-
cause by any other plan tho price paid
for cream is always made to include the
operating expenses, etc., Of the concern,
and the patrons may as we'll pin their
faith securely to each other, and put
their trust in good butter, and realize all
the proceeds Of tho cream and the profits
that would otherwise go to tho buyer.
Where there &re from $50 to 500 CO WIS
within a distance of ten miles each way
in q good locality, a creamery can be run
successfully. The best way 10 for some
influential man, in whom tho commune
ty has confidence, to 60 about and see
who will and who will not patronize a
creamery and stay BY 1t one year. A
meeting is then called, the matter is
talked over, and q site decided upon.
Building shares are then issued to the
amount of the supposed cost Of the plant.
A good creamery can be put up and
stocked with all needed machinery for
from $500 to 81, 500, provided the patrons
will buy their own cans, which will cost
from 80 cents to 81 per COW, each lot Of
10 cows needing . can. The stock 10 us
ually put out In 80 shares bearing 10 per
cent interest.
The building committee are selected
and get q plan of the building from, say,
Burrell q Whitman, Little Falls, N. Y,
or any other we'll known manufacturing
arm Of dairy supplies. Tho machinery
10 selected from a list o fsupplies, and the
plant made ready. Officers must DO Sc
lected to run the affair, but need only
consist Of an auditing committee and q
salesman; the latter will act a. treasurer
| Of the concern.
It is always best to AVOID the perambu-
latory spectators who seek to get up
$4,000 creamery companies, build fine
structures, stock them with costly ma
chinery, rate their skill. knowledge,
etc.: Al half the capital stock as against
tho farmers 5 5000 or $1,000 cash, and in
turn buy the cream and make an assign
ment in August. The farmers should
operate only among t%hemselves, do the
best they know how, and they will sue
ceeu quite az we'll az they would in com-
pany Of strangers.
1t il best for the patrons to decide
upon a uniform system of milk setting,
buy up cans all of n make, and con-
form as nearly as possible the rules, for
by this plan only can = high grade OF
butter be made. II cans are purchased
ofany of the leading makes, like those
of Fairlamb, Cody, Lincoln, and other
makes, the agents will accompany them
and instruct the patrons in their use
without making any change. Good but
ter makers can b secured from al
most any Of the dairy districts Of the
northern states, and at wages ranging
from $50 to 500 q month.
The cream gatherers will need to num-
Dor one to about each 200 "inches" OF
cream collected. The cream is taken of
by the gatherers, and the number OF
"inches" Of cream-each inch supposed
to represent a pound Of butter-obtained
Of each patron is credited to him. A,
the bulk Of cream ia not a safe rule tx
go to the AMOUNT of butter it will churr
out, samples Of the cream are taken eacl
day and submitted to the oil test, ant
it's butter yield determined. and TIN
!, exact percentage of butter to each incl
OF cream IL placed to the credit of tn
patron. This is more Just to all, and tn
patron who has q dairy, an inch of who's
cream make 20 ounces Of butter, get
i, pay for 20 ounces, while those who sup
ply thin cream do not profit by 1t, bu'
, are credited with its exact butter yield
Each week, or o%ftener, the salesma,
!, sends the butter to the best market h
can find, consigning it to a No. / com
mission house. who will soil it on it
, merits. When the returns are In, the cos
: OF making the butter is deducted from
the amour renewed, and the balance
is divided pro rat among tho patrons
Every three months II per cent interes
q on the capital is also deducted and pai
q to the stockholders. Persons not WI
| ing stock are also allowed to send cream
r but instead of sharing pro rata in tn
r expense, they pay 3, 4 or 5 cents pc
! pound for making their butter, which
usually q trifae more per pound for max
!. ing than the patrons pay, but they. i
turn do not pay interest on tho capits
stock.
1t 10 always best to send to one com