Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-12

the three main plans resorted to in other
regions for their establishment.
|. Those who have milk to furnish
combine capital and establish a cream
cry plant of their own to work up their
product. The profits go entirely to the
farmers, who are not only patrons of the
creamery but also its owners. This plan
would stand as no experiment in the
South. 1t has been tried and found sue
cessful in the Southern states east of the
Mississippi river, and the writer thinks
there is no good reason why, under
favorable conditions, II should not prove
successful in Texas.
3. The surrounding country is can
vassed for the purpose of securing an ap-
proximate idea of the quantity of milk
that might be depended upon for the first
year. Having arrived at this and made
sure that there will be enough with which
TO make reasonably fair beginning, ar
rangements are made with some re-
sponsible man or company to establish a
creamery plant, becoming its owner,
and to take the milk Cor creamy from the
patrons, sell it or make it into butter,
and divide the net proceeds among the
customers according to the quantity and
quality of milk or cream furnished by
each, reserving certain per cent. as
Toll. The amount of toll is agreed upon
as one of the arrangements necessary
in establishing the creamery. 1t must be
large enough to give reasonable profits to
the owner, and may be reduced as
patronage increases.
3. In this, probably the most common
plan of the three, the plant is estab-
lished by a'cspitalist or company of cap
italists, and is operated on its own re-
sponsibilitv. Milk or cream is bought
direct from the farmers at the best fig
ures that can be paid, governed of
course by the market prices paid for the
product of the establishment. This is
the simplest plan of any, as no compli-
Gated bookkeeping is necessary-you
take your milk or cream to the creamery,
get your money Tor it, and the business
transactions for that particular day are
ended. There is only one trouble con-
nected with this plan-butter, like most
other things, fuctuates on the market.
1t may be well up this week and consid-
erably down next. So long as it goes
up, enabling the creamery to advance
the prices paid for milk, everything is
all right, but when it falls below the
average, thus forcing a reduction in
prices paid, everything is all wrong; the
farmer in such case Is apt to grow sus-
picious and jump to the conclusion that
the creamery is endeavoring to sTindle
him.
Such appears to be the opinion ex
pressed by the bulletin before us, but for
our own part we have never seen much
in that way, and we have had fair OPP
portunities of studying the workings of
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plans. Such farmers as would furnish u
creamery with materials to work are
now pretty generally reading farmers,
and hence they keep the run of all mar
kets in which they are interested the
same as other people; besides many of
these capitalist creameries make con-
tracts with their patrons by the year,
taking all their products ut certain fig
ures, without regard to fluctuations.
This is probably the best way for all par
farmer reasonable profits and the line
can be soon drawn that X will do the
same for.the creamery,in the end. At
times the creamery~may not be making
much, but at other times the prices will
be sufficiently up to restore all losses.
The excellent bulletin before US gives
much additional Information useful to
the person interesting himsel in the
establishment of Texas, creameries. 1t
shows plans and specifications for build
ing creamery plants, with the approx
innate cost. According to its showing q
first class plant, all ready for work,
ought not to cost in Texas above S2250.
The bulletin was issued about one year
ago, but we suppose interested persons
might still get copies of it by addressing
Prof. F. A. Gulley, director experiment
station, College Station, Tex.