Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
BUTTER AND CHEESE.

ural Facilities for the Industry.
nj. j. r. Sawyer, of Illinois, who I'M
der the direction of the board of agri-
culture, spent two weeks, beginning
August 10. visiting Missouri dairy
plants to determine the reason for the
very moderate degree of success which
has attended the dairy business in this
state, has made his report. Says Mr.
Sawyer:
In summing up the two weeks work in
Missouri, must say that a general thing
the natu raj facilities can not be exceled. In
nearly every part of the state, find some
creameries or cheese factories that are be-
ing operated very successfully; where they
have proved a failure, it was almost invari-
ably caused by bad management, first, in
paying too much for the plant; second, in
paying too much for the milk, third. in
many cases hiring incompetent butter and
cheese makers The state board of agricul-
ture by cooperating with the State Dairy
mans association can be of great service to
parties contemplating entering this bust
ness. The dairymen OF Missouri need to
learn how to produce milk cheaply and to
successfully raise their calves on skim milk,
and 1 consider thu farmers institute
means of conveying this information.
Among the numerous factories visit
ed by Mr.. Sawyer were the following
NEW HAVEN, FRANKLIN COUNTY.
by II. f. Prussner. Butter and cheese: cost,
$3.50 for entire plant; capacity, 1900 lbs.
milk daily; now receiving $500 to 800 lbs.
milk per day; 1.590 DDS. per day in winter;
full cream cheese twice Il week; balance of
time butter Pays.5oc per 100 for July and
August milk, markets butter and cheese at
local towns, getting Ice to lie in summer, and
FAC to 2oc in winterfor butter; SC for cheese.
The butter maker is not an expert, hence.
gets little below market quotations.
Patrons do not care for their milk in a salts.
factory manner, hence the business is
satisfactory to both patron and creamery
man. Milk tested from IA per cent. fat to 4
per cent. showing water Swimming by
patron; butter tested 10 per cent fat show
Ing lack DISK in creamery.
CHAMoIS. Usage OOUNTY.-A. A. Speer,
secretary and manager Butter and cheese
combined cost, IS, 400 for entire plant; ca
pacty. Is, eo0lbs. milk per day. This factory
was started in the fall of 1889, 60 days,
had to borrow $s25 to pay debts contracted
in this time and shut down May /, 1899. Was
leased ito the butter maker for one year;
June i sold at auction for 1921, being
bought by four of the stockholders, who ex.
pect to start 1t up again about September
i; will pay 75c per 100 for milk at that
time. Country fairly well watered; plenty
of tame grass pasture; have received 200
lbs. milk per day, showing there were COWS
enough; think with proper management it
can be made success.
Upton, MONTREAL COUNTY.
@. c. Maclay, S. Cohn and VIM. Redmon;
gathered cream; cost, $5,500 for entire plant;
capacity, $500 II s. butter per day. This
creamery was rur. for four years as a stock
company, doing a fair business, the third
year netting 5000 profit. The fourth year
they held their butter and bought and
packed large quantities of country butter,
paying l2c to 49, per lib. for same Much of
this was sold grease at &c per H., balance
at Csc and 1oc per Id. This broke up the
company, and the plant bought by the
above firm and leased to the butter maker,
who ran it for four years, doing fair BUSH
ness, but not making much money. Has
been idle this season. While it has not been
a financial success to the stockholders it
has brought thousands of dollars to the
farmers every year it has run. Greatest
draw back, no one to devote his entire at.
tention to the business.
APPLETON CITY, ST. CLAIR COUNTY.-O. S.
Beach, proprietor; cheese alone; cost. 81, 500
for entire plant; capacity, 9.0O0lbs. milk per
day; now getting $500 to 2,70Olbs. per day it
taking 1013lbs. milk to make lib cheese dur
ing the summer months; less in fall and
winter; markets his cheese in southwest
Missouri and Kansas, getting from sI2 to &c
per lb for it during the summer; more in
winter. Mr.. b. makes it up on the dividend
plan, charging &c per Id. for making
cheese. Last year the patrons concluded to
hold their cheese, putting in Kansas City
cold storage, but lost heavily by so doing
the cheese selling from to SC per lib. Fac
tory been running for II years quite salts
factorily to all concerned.
HALE, CARROLL CoUNTY.-Hale Creamery
Co, Il. NJ Campbell, secretary and manager.
Butter and cheese combined; cost. $1,000;
capacity. "a, 900 lbs. milk per day. This fac.
tory had a large run, high as II, 900 lbs.
milk per day while being operated as stock
company, but owing to poor management
and the making of an inferior article of but
ter and cheese ran 81, 900 in debt. February
fn fay Of fInC hot
for $1,000, the manager being one of them
Are now receiving $500 lbs. milk per day,
paying for same according to its butter
value; tests being made with Babcoek test
every day, now paying 13c per lib. of butter
tat; average Weld, 80 lbs fat per 100 lbs.
milk. They also gather cream, paving Iec
per H. for the butter; cost of gathering, Sc
per lib. Markets butter largely in Chicago
and Philadelphia. Butter melted them last
year20Ac per Id. Many of the patrons have
their cows fresh in the fall OF the year, which
kept up their winter yield. Poor cows and
bad dairymen are greatest draw backs.
WINDSOR, HENRY CoUNTT.-Thos. Iewellyn
proprietor. Gathered cream; cost s. 500 for
entire plant: capacity, 2,o9e lbs. butter per
day; last year made $1,000 lbs. are making
1,5ao lbs. per week new: pays lie for cream
now, paid an average of 1214e last year; paws
3l2c per lb' butter for collecting the cream:
has four collectors making from s2s to SIS
per month; markets butter in southwest
IL
summer, and Is to 28c in winter; supplies 800
lbs per week to asylum at 19c by the year; is
very anxious to have an institute held at
Windsor this winter. will furnish hall and
board institute while there; been running
several years, doing well tor himself an i
patrons seem to be satisfied with creamery
SUMNER. CHARLTON COUNTY. Butter and
cheese company; cost, 5000; capacity, u.s.
COO lbs; are now receiving about 900 lbs per
day, all of which is made into butter This
factory was run for a little over IL year as a
stock company, and then (May 15) was leased
by Lewis Kaye, since which time it has
been run by them; are now paying soc per
100 lbs. butter marketed in Hannibal and
Chicago; bringing about 15c in summer, and
Csc in winter. The mouth disease has caused |
a falling off in the milk supply; many of the
farms are large, and too much attention
given to steers and hogs are serious draw
backs. The factory showed a lack of cleanli-
ness necessary to the successful operation |
of any creamery. Want institute badly
STANBERRY, GENTRY CoUNTY-Stanberrv
Butter and Cheese Co.: F. j. Golden, pro- |
prietor. Cost about $1,000; capacity Is 600 |
lbs. This factory only ran short time be. !
fore the company failed and Mr. Golden |
bought it at a great sacrifice and now is very !!
anxious TO sell: is not a creamery man and /
will not open the factory again.
WASHINGTON, FRANKLIN CoUNTY-Henrv |
EoerIng, proprietor. Gathered cream and |!
separator; butter alone; cost, 81, 200 for ma
rents the buil6ing-it was an old
store; capacity, LOCO lbs. butter per dav:
now making $500 to $500 lbs. per week: i'm
winter, 900 lbs. per week, one fourth being
goods, which sells for &c to Sc per
lib. more than gathered cream butter. He
pays Coo per 10 for August milk, 55c for July
loo for cream that makes h. of butter.
1t costs &c per lib. to collect cream; markets
butter i'll New York, Baltimore and Atlanta; |