The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-01-02
Co.operatiye DairYinp.

Mr.. John Boyd, well known in dairy
circles in the West, believes in Co
operative dairying. He has made many
speeches in behalf of this plan, showing
by facts and figures the profits accruing
therefrom. In a communication to the
Prairie Farmer he states the case as
follows:
The cooperative plan has proved to
be the best system of managing creame-
ries. The farmers form a corporation or
association, subscribe the necessary
capital, and elect officers annually, to
attend to the business. A factory is
built and equipped, and an experienced
buttermaker employed. The cream is
brought to the factory, manufactured,
the products sold, and the proceeds,
after deducting expenses Including d
per cent on the capital, and usually a
small reserve fund.-, are divided monthly
among the patrons, according to tho
amount of milk or cream each has
furnished. In this way, the farmers do
the business themselves, at the smallest
possible expense, and get all there is to
be made out of it. They are independent
of contractors. or of private creamery
managers. The patrons get their pay
regularly, and know whom they are
dealing with, BY all means, therefore,
a creamery should be a farmers CO.
operative institution.
tne great advantage of the cream
gathering system is that the patron liv-
ing near the creamery possesses no ad.
vantage over the patron living at a dis.
tance-the gatherer collects the cream
OF each, aud the expense is borne equally
by all. The patrons don't have to spend
valuable time de.iyenng their cream to
the factory-it Is all taken at their own
doors. The expense of this method is
reduced to a minimum, because of tho
decreased bulk OF cream compared with
milk. Those who know the bother OF
delivering milk at factories or railroad
stations twice daily during the busy sea-
son will appreciate this point.
Among the other advantages of cream
over milk gathering is the very import
ant fact that the skim milk is left on the
farm. If not sold, the skim milk is fed
out on the farm, increasing the amount of
stock, manure, crops, and thus the whole
income of the farm. Nor is there any
material shrinkage of cream in handling,
owing to its smaller bulk, compared
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The skim milk, being kept clean and
sweet, commands high price in mar
ket.
The element of injustice is reduced to
the minimum. Milk varies enormously
in the quantity of butter it will produce ;
IN cream, this variation is comparatively
slight. The same quantity of Jersey
milk will produce more spaces of cream
than an equal quantity of native cows
milk. Thus the owners of Jerseys or
good cows get the benefit of their su-
perior product, instead of having to put
It on equality with poor milk. There is,
therefore, every indueement to improve
ones stock, aud breed cows that will
give the greatest amount of cream. The
result is seen in the better stock IN the
vicinity Of cream gathering creameries.
The milk of each patron being set in
aCooly creamer, is raised under essen.
TALLY the same conditions-fully as
much SO as is milk set in milk gath
ering factory. The injury 10 the cream
by being carried TO the creamery is GER
talnly no greater than the injury TO the
milk by similar transportation, for the
cream sportation cans have an inte-
rior floating device to prevent all churn-
ing. The last prop of the milk system is
thus Knocked away.