Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-02-22
The Creamery VS.. Private Dairying.


Henry ROethe, of Grant county, in
an article in the Lancaster Teller, re-
Gently, on the Dairy question, had the
following on the modern method of
conducting that business.
"Why sell cream in preference to
making butter? Ask the patient house
wife and the female help which is
more pleasant on a hot summer day
when the sun pours down in scorching
splendor, and the COWS give such an
abundance of milk, when there is so
much to be done that our fair ladies
are over burdened with work, which is
more conducive to health and comfort,
to toll for hours over the churn and
working the butter, or to get the cream
ready and have the driver take it at
your ease? Which requires the least
labor, and leave the time for other
work? The answer is unnecessary.
But a great many say, what is time:
That is nothing to us; we don't care
so much about time; it is money we
want. Very well, admitting this to be
true for sake of argument only, let us
see. have kept careful track for
several years, of the price paid for but
ter at the same time, and | find as the
result of my observations, that during
the summer months, when the yield
was highest, anu the bulk of the butter
made that the prices paid for cream
was as high, and even higher, than the
price paid for butter. Which, then,
is the most profitable? But here, some
good butter maker goes step farther
and claims that he can make dairy but
ter that is just as good as creamery,
and commands just as high prices,
This is all true in some instances, but
can or do they all do it? For every one
that does make that high grade butter,
there are nine others who do not. III
is so with the majority. With due re-
spect, | will not claim that all do not
make good butter for | will take every
farmer-wife's word for it, and say they
do. However, we might class butter
as good. better and best, discarding
poor altogether. Then for every farmer
that makes the best butter, you Will
find only two that makes the better but
ter and seven makes the good. Now
the idea is right here: Creamery butter
sells for from three to ten cents pound
higher than the ordinary dairy. III we
can buy your cream. paying you just tive
same price for it, or even more, than
you would receive had you churned II
into butter, save you all this extra time,
trouble, labor and expense, and if we
manufacture butter from il that sells
on the average, for at least five cents
pound more than il otherwise would, Is
it !lot saving of five cents pound on
every pound of butter made in the
creamery great saving to the country!
Think of what it does, that simple five
cents gained. 1t is left right here
among yourselves: it does not wander
into the'pockets of millionaires.. or bloat'
ed corporations, it is clear gain to you
It helps to support some of your fam
lilies: it buys some of your surplus pro-
duce; it helps your various industries
Take it in figures if you please: During
the six summer months, the Creamery
here turned out 100, 600 pounds of but
ter. The increase of value gained
thereby, the net gain figured at five
cents per pound, coming right home t.
you, would mean a saving TO Fenni
more annually of the snug sum of So
900; it would mean saving to Grant
county of the enormous.s sum of $50, Oo
Is it worth while to support a Cream
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