Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-08

that they could afford to build a 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
ferred by the bulletin to show why cream
cries should be extensively established in
Texas. ''The fact that creameries, if
properly developed, will create a de-
mand for milk, and that this demand
will stimulate the breeding of better
COWS, and must ultimately result in q
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 q 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 a much smaller net
profit to the producer of homemade but
ter than is generally supposed. Con-
centration OF purpose and combination of
dairy supply, as in case of creamerl g,
allows the manufacture of butter at q
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
it would not pay Texas creameries 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 manufacture
ing as good "whole cheese'' as appears
in any market we have too good thing
in existing prices for milk and butter to
justify us in doing it.
GAS a financial investment, saws
bulletin No 8. ''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 determine ion
to stand their ground until this trying
period is successfully passed. In a
short-showing at the beginning will exist
nothing to be discouraged over. a little
hold-on will soon bring ever ylhing
around all right, and establish the
creamery as thing of decided profit to
its owners, its town and the region of
country in which it is located.
Having thus argued in favor of an ex-
tension of the creamery industry for
Texas, the bulletin goes on to ventilate
the three main plans resorted to in other
regions for their establishment.
/. Those who have milk to furnish
combine capital and establish a cream
ery 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. Ii has been tried and found cue
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.
.. 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 m de
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 q certain per cent. as
TOLL. The amount of toll is agreed upon
as one of the arrangements necessary
in establishing the creamery. It must be