Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-02-26
Badly Managed Creamerles.

l have noticed in your paper more or
less about creamery failures. due to
mIsmanagement and the making of poor
butter, writes correspondent to Dairy
World. There is no doubt that many
inexperienced men are put IN charge of
creamerles, especially in the vest. For
instance, a creamery will start up with
a good man, one who fully understands
his business and IS capable of making a
No. l grade Of goods, as well as being
familiar with all kinds of machinery
and the running of separatOrs, and with
such a man the company will make
money right from the start. Such man
IS paid, say SO month. Along with
him is a helper to attend 70 washing,
Scrubbing, and other details ard fire the
boiler, but in about three or four months
he begins to get notion that he has got
the butter-making or cheese making
business down fine, and can do equally
AS we'll as his superior. He offefs, per-
chance, his services for $40 or $50 per
month, and the proprietors looking after
a penny saved as penny earned, dis
pense with their $40 worker and install
the helper. With such a change, what
can be expected 2 From that day they
begin to lose money. l have known of
men taking charge Of creameries with
only one months experience. These
establishments keep running right along
for time, and ship their product to
market they can't see why in the world
they don't get as good prices as they
ought to have. The commission house,
to which their goods Is sent, sells it for
what it is worth and RENTS, but does
not go to the trouble of making any
complaint or suggestions, since it does
not make much difference how the but
ter is made, as the commission is Sc
cured just the same, and the company
is no wiser as to the source OF their
troubles. Not infreQuently some of
these establishments think they must
have a man to sell their goods and take
charge of their books, and with their
cheap butter or cheese maker, they Will
| 90 to the other extreme folly of hiring
one at salary of from 800 to 81 900
| per annum, whereas they could have
found some one at from $3.50 to $500 a
year to do the same work in connection
with some other business. What is the
result? Inevitable failurel 1t is very
poor policy in the creamery business to
| employ cheap butter-maker, and still
worse In addition tp hire high. priced
boOkkeeper. l speak as a proprietor
and not as an employe on these matters
Is it any wonder then that under such
circumstances we frequently hear of the
suspension of creameries, and that but
ter making as a business don't paw ?
Of course, you don't hear Of the real
cause Of failure. They never put it
where 1t belongs. 1t is either due to
keen competition, or to sharks who
talked them into building a creamery
when the 6eld was alrendy over-crowd-
ed. No doubt some have ventured into
the business without due precautions.
but l hold that where a creamery is
properly managed and good article of
outer is made, such . concern cannot
help making money. AS to the So called
sharks, there may be some, but claim
that had it not been for these compan.
les engaged in building and fitting up
creameries, the creamerieS would have
been very scarce in the west to-day.
There are now in this state no less than
100 creamerieS and they have proved a
great benefit to the state. What paws
| the farming community so well TO-DAY
in Kansas as the dairying business
The farmer secures the cash for his
milk and with that cash he can get bet
ter bargains with the merchant than
formerly. He is thus benefited both
ways, Oh, no the trouble with some
creameries lies in the direction l have
pointed out, and those who may at pres
emit be persuing that business had better
reform or quit the business.
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