St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-25
CHEESE AND BUTTER.
Some Experience and Pointers in
the Manufacture of These Arti-

the Manufacture of These Arti-
cles.
Special Letter TO the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, March pa. L.
G.-Why don't you send your facts and
figures to the GLOBE, so that others
may see what you have learned from
experience in various states about
cheese and butter making? All the
same, thank you for the information
you wrote. Such letters are pleasure
TO read as personal, but you might send
such letters TO the GLOBE and give 9TH
ers the benifit of them; and | think
this subject should be agitated more
than it has been through the
press, and by those that have
had personal and long experience
in this subject. | will tell you that
know little Of creamery business. About
four years ago a cheese factory some
six miles from where / lived changed
hands," to use common expression,
and the new proprietor began butter
making. The farmers at once thought
they had struck bonanza surely, for
they had the skinned milk for the
calves. Whether it proved fine thing
for them l do not know, but they got
was enough for them, and they thought
they were doing good business.
They were rid of all trouble about the
dairy, for the women did all the work.
and the old horse that had drawn the
old buggy with the milk to the cheese
factory was turned out to grass" and
The boys that had gone to the factory
with the milk slept the fine mornings
away in their beds. The factory turned
out and shipped quantities of butter.
but query went the rounds, What
did the butter makers do with the but
termilk? A little investigation re-
Vealed the fact that every day MANY
gallons. in fact all the butter
milk TO the dregs went to Milwaukee.
where il was sold out every day to the
last drop for 3 cents a small glass.
Thirty-six miles, think the distance
was, between the factory and Milwau-
kee. with trains every hour. That the
owner did make money there is no
doubt, and if there was market near
for the buttermilk. | would advocate
the creamery, as each farmer i'm the
combine would share in the profits of
the butter and the buttermilk. The
farmers lost the whey, with which thew
mixed ground feed for hogs. and that
was an item they had not counted Oh,
not being interested either way only as
any outsider might be. / have forgot
ten the principal part as to figures, so
that l. can neither condemn nor an
prove the creamery. look at it as less
satisfactory because il was like some in
this state, an individual or company af-
fair, in which the farmer gets little and
the owner. or owners, much.
Perhaps | am wrong in my conclus-
I'M 6nip ha4r
Of carrying on the dairy business. but
my knowledge is limited, at best. There
was cheese factory about two miles
from my home that was run on the CO.
operation plan, which seemed to give
the most satisfaction. and it was not the
only factory runin the same way.
A young farmer learned the process
OF cheese manufacture. built factory
Oh his farm and made up the milk from
his immediate neighborhood, they paw
Ing him a per centage for making and
marketing the product. Their milk
was weighed when delivered at the fac
tory, and each man could take
away whey to mix hog feed
every day if he wished, and
the cheese was sold every month, and
every man received his share of the pro-
ceedS at once. Very few of the farmers
NNhU W tlC loCloiy Will dill
old staid horse. an old buggy or a one
horse wagon was the outfit, and some
child in the family took away the milk
and brought home the whey, if it was
wanted, III the milk cans. The cheese
from this factory was almost entirely
sold at home, and was in good demand,
too. There are many cheese factories
around my old home in Wisconsin.
and all have been so salts
tory and done so we'll l can
but wish for the same good success in
this state. Surely the farmers here, al
though apparently well-to-do, seem to
be in some ways far behind some other
Western states. agree with you, Mr..
c., about their hard work and steady
drudgery, if / may SO express nv feel
ings, and want to see them far more
prosperous than they are now. think
YOU should give to the readers of the
GLOBE your very interesting facts and
figures about this dairy business. You
know when the farmers are prosperine
all the country feels the effect-in every
home of this land; the fact is apparent
everywhere.
Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL.
Crop Figures.