The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-21
THE FARM.
Starting n Creamery.

From Hoard's Dairyman.
There are thousands OF communities
where the milk OF their cows is stunned into
10 or 10 cent butter, and finds it way
finally into market as grease"
You will hear nearly every farmer say,
81 wish we had n creamery mere" and vet
the only reafsolid reason why they do not
have such in their midst is because they
lack the true spirit of the thing. An Irish
man was once Gliding comrade for his
indifferent way OF counting, and put the
matter in the following light
TITS no use, Pat. Oi tell yez when We
make luv' to God or woman, it's all
luck yen have widout ye're whole heart is
in it,"
1t is just so in the creamery business.
"Sitting down to dinner OF wishes will
bring starvation for desert" is another
Irish maxim. The creamery business is
no longer an experiment, yet every COM
munity seems TO act US cautiously, and
hold back as suspiciously as if theirs was
the first ever built.
In gathering milk for a cheese factory,
or whole milk creamery, or in gathering
cream for gathered cream creamery,
there needs 10 be general agreement oil
patronage on every route. IL lessons the
expense greatly, and thereby adds to the
profits OF the owners of the creamery il the
wagon brings full load every day.
Prof Alvord, in writing on this subject
TO the american Cuitirdt0r well says:
Scattered patrons make an expensive
and comparatively Improbable creamery.
The successful creamery is the one which
takes in nine-tenths or 09-l00 OF all the
milk producing farmers in a given area
and the more compacty situated they are
the better for the business. Where hall
those who ought to be patrons, and per.
haps think they will be after n while
holds of TO see how the new venture turns
out, it would be apparent TO all that these
walters aud watchers are themselves the
greatest obstacle TO success. Numerous
cases could be cited where out OF zoe
farmers in neighborhood, 100 combined
TO start creamery, and the rest waited,
watched and criticised. Very likely the
creamery, although an improvement on
the old plan, was far from satisfactory, be-
cause it had not cream enough TO do an
economical business More cows was all
that was needed TO make complete sue
cess. Yet the doubling hundreds stood
| in the way OF their own interests and that
OF their neighbors. They waited and
waited Tor the creamery TO become sue
cess. when that might be accomplished
any day by their becoming its patrons.
No number OF farmers eau be advised L
start q creamery until threc-fourths OF al
| COW owners. who naturally should bc Co
operative, have consented TO DC so, or a
least 300 cows, and preferably more, hay,
been secured 80 well located that one man
or two at the most, can daily collect al
cream and deliver il at the factory.
About the worst hindmnce 10 progress
and the most expensive thing there i
about farming, is the foolish suspicion an,
| jealousy farmers have OF one another. 4,
tell the truth about Il, such ideas M,
founded on lack OF knowledge OF th,
world and ordinary WAYS Of doing bust
ness. The most ignorant are the mos
| suspicious OF their neighbors. Bushes
men in town do not act that way, vet they
are in active competition with each other
They will unite and hang together Tor an!
object OF mutual benefit. The farmer mus
come out into the sunlight Of broader idea
OF his fellows. The nineteenth century ]
run on that plan, and be needs to ''gc
aboard the loaded wagon" along with Tia
/ rest OF the folks.