The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-06-09
VILLAGE CREAMERIES.
h More Important Advantages Of These
Useful Institutions.

tseful institutions.
A move in the right direction is oc.
curing in many of the inland cities
and villages which can be extended
throughout the country with advantage
to all concerned, particularly in grain
growing regions. The establishment
of village crcameries is referred to. In
grain sections dairying is a secondary
matter, and the butter produced is
generally Of an inferior quality. Out
side of dairy districts it has been an
impossibility for families to procure a
tirst-class supply of butter. Farmers
have not proper conveniences for but
ter making. The milk is usually set
in shallow pans in the cellar, with de-
caying vegetables and other refuse
matter, or in the pantry, adjoining the
kitchen, where it receives the dust of
floors when sweeping and odors from
the cook-stove, particularly on wash
days. The skimming and churning are
done at no regular intervals, but only
when most convenient. No wonder a
poor product results. The surplus
above the requirements of the family
finds it way to the grocery where the
farmer does his trading. The butter.
table in the grocer's cellar, when con-
tanning perhaps a dozen different lots
of butter, presents n notified appear
ance, representing as many different
shades of color as Joseph's coat and Of
qualities that are passably good, indif.
ferent, bad, very bad and horribly bad. A
transient customer can not buy a pound
of gilt-edge butter of a grocer, for the
reason that the little offered is engaged
in advance by those who will have no
other. The ordinary grocery butter is
an abomination. Residents of large
villages can congratulate themselves
hat relief is at hand. for at the present
rate of progress creameries will soon
be established in all of them.
When this consummation comes, not
only gilt-edge butter IAN be had con-
stantly, but also fresh cream, butter
milk and cottage-cheese, which are
low all r~arities and in much demand
by most families. Not only this. but
they will be permitted to observe what
scrupulous neatness is practiced in the
process of manufacture. This of itself
is great satisfaction and r~eassuring to
delicate tastes. How is a village
creamery conducted The proprietor
contracts to take cream of farmers,
and sends a team every day to gather
it in. paying for it once a month at
a price equal to that which the farmer
could get for the butter made from the
same cream, thus relieving him of the
trouble Of butter-making and market
ing. The proprietor of the creamery
gets his reward from the advanced
price he is able to obtain for a first
class article. Other benefits follow.
One farmer discovers that another gets
more cream from the same number of
cows, and he will naturally desire to
learn the reason. If in feeding, he
will be apt to correct his own system
if in q better breed of animals, he will
breed up his own. The proprietor of
the creamery will require every farmer
to manage his cows and the milk in ac-
cordance with correct principles, and
he will be at hand every day to see
that all is done properly. Many will
learn something in this way. Cream
cries are founded upon a business
basis. for it is one doing the work Of
many, and they can only fail of being
profitable by poor management P. S.
1t takes so long to write 1.-THE pro-
prietor of a creamery" defining merely
one person, why not coin o word, and
say, the "creamist P"-Gaten Wilson,
in N. Y. Tribune. o ..,.