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


Bulletin No. of the Texas expert
mental station, Brazos county. strongly
urges the people of Texas to lend their
announcement to an establishment of
creameries, particularly in the neighbor-
hood of towns. "The advantage to any
town and its merchants, " says the bull
letin, sis readily seen. In the cotton
regions, especially, for a considerable
portion of the year there is little or no
money in circulation among farmers.
Creameries, if successfully developed,
will largely change this condition of
things, and keep money in circulation
ton throughout the year. Merchants
can well afford 20 subscribe literally for
creamery stock, knowing that the enter
prise will add to the general prosperity
of the town, and bring increased custom
on cash basis to themselves. Where
creameries in the South have been in
successful operation for several years,
leading merchants do not hesitate to say
that they could afford to build cream
cry every three years rather than lose the
increased business and prosperity that the
creamery has brought to their doors. -
Then there are other good reasons Of
cries should be extensively established in
Texas. ''The fact that oreameries, if
properly developed, will create de-
mand for milk, and that this demand
will stimulate the breeding of better
COWS, and must ultimately result in a
more profitable system of farming gener-
ally, is, in itself, potent argument in
favor of q wide development of cream
cries. Again, Gas compared with the
average farm dairy, the creamery system
means great saving of time and labor,
the latter being apt to fall upon the
weaker portion of the household in max
ing butter at home. The question of
time and labor required in the home
dairy should be counted in the cost of the
butter product, and, when so counted,
there will be found much smaller net
profit to the producer of home made but
ter than is generally supposed. Con-
centration of purpose and combination of
dairy supply, as in case of oreamerI s,
allows the manufacture of butter at
less cost per pound, and secures double
advantage by reason of making a more
uniform AND better product, which al
ways commands better price on the
market.
The bulletin represents that at present
ii would not pay Texas creamerles to ar
range for the manufacture of cheese.
''Skim chees might be made with fair
profits, but in Texas there is compare
lively little demand for cheese of this
character. Texas people want the best
that is going, and while there is nothing
whatever in the way of our manufactur-
ing as good "whole cheese as appears
in any market we have too good a thing
in existing prices for milk and butter to
justify US in doing it.
4'As a financial investment, says
bulletin No 5. "only small dividends
need be expected for the first year or
two. 1t Will take some time to develop
confidence and secure supply of milk
large enough to be handled with profit,
and those who invest IN creameries in
Texas should do so with determination
to stand their ground until this trying
period is successfully passed. In q
short-showing at the beginning will exist
nothing to be discouraged over. A little
hold-on will soon bring everything,
around all right, and establish the
creamery as a thing of decided profit to
its owners, its town and the region of
country in which tits located.
Having thus argued in favor of an ex-
Stension of the creamery industry for
gexas. the bulletin gpesso to ventilate