Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-14

The milking will have to be done at a
certain time so as not to cause
delay in getting it to the factory.
After it is weighed, put through the
machinery and the butter taken out of
it, it is again returned to the farmer by
the same persons who gathered it, with
most all the valuable feed ingredients
in it. Calves can be raised just as
well on the milk after the cream is
extracted, if fed little bran or shorts
with it as though they took it directly
from the cow. This has been demon
strated in all other sections of the coun-
try where creameries are running. The
expense to the farmer for gathering the
milk, getting it to the creamery and re-
turned to them again will average about
$1.OO per year per cow. The milk will be
gathered each morning.
PRICE PAID FOR MILK.
Milk will of course vary in price as
to the supply and demand. The aver
age price paid for milk will be about 80
cents per 100 pounds and the seller to
receive the milk again for feeding pur-
poses. In the present way of making
butter an average cow in this vicinity
will bring revenue of about $50 per
year and the farmers have the work of
manufacturing and marketing the pro-
duct. At 80 cents per 100 for the milk
cow that gives 20 pounds per day, or
5000 pounds per year, would bring a
yearly revenue of $54, and the farmer
have only the necessary extra care of
calves and little extra feed for same.
The product of 500 COWS from within a
radius of six miles of Great Bend would
therefore bring a yearly cash revenue to
the farmers of that territory of S27 900,
and double that sum OF $54 200 year
for 200 COWS. That amount of money
for the milk product alone paid out year
ly in Great Bend would be benefit to
our city and surrounding territory that
it is hard to estimate.
POSSIBLE DIFFICULTIES.
vi COuISC IL 1S IlOG uuucISCOOu tlIdC
there are no difficulties to overcome in
making a creamery successful to both
the manufacturer and the farmer.
Some of our people we'll know that some
two or three years ago creamery was
started near Larned, and that 1t has
proven failure. The reason for such a
failure is obvious. In the first place
the plan Of manufacturing is different;
later improvements in machinery have
simplified much of the work of manu-
facture. There their plan was to
gather the credn.-nOt the milk-and
the time taken to skim, assort, and pre-
serve the cream, to get it to the cream
cry without loss by souring or heating,
and the necessarily expensive tanks and
ice boxes needed to gather the milk, all
worked against the business. Again,
in the vicinity of that creamery there
were not enough COWS to furnish a
proper amount of cream, within a
reasonable distance from the creamery,
and it took too long, and there was too
much expense attached to getting the
cream to the factory. It is also
known that Incompetent men had
the handling of the machinery and the
marketing of the product, all of which
circumstances worked together for the
downfall of the business.
In the matter of our own creamery it
will be well for our people to under
stand that, in order to make a success
full start each man will do his share.
It will not do for you to hold back and
say you are doing pretty well in the
old way of butter-making; that you
will wait while and see how the thing
works and if it is Il paying business
you will sell it the product of your COWS.
There can be no doubt but that the
creamery will be a greater benefit to
the cow owners than to the holders of
stock, and if the men who put their
money into the business to start
it and create manufacturing interest
have that much confidence in its
ultimate success, the men who have
milk to sell ought certainly to furnish
the factory with enough to keep it run
ming. Promptness in having the milk
ready for marketing and keeping it in
good condition is one of the important
items in the business and it devolves
| upon the farmers to see that such is
DONE,
POSSIBILITIES.
Practical cheese and butter makers
and men who have visited and exam
ined the workings of other creameries
and the result upon the farming com.
munity from which they draw theil