Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-12-29

subscribed and paid in, and a plant
contracted for at full amount OF cap
itol stock, which should have been
built and equipped for not to ex-
coed 90, 800, leaving a net profit to
the contracting parties OF about
81, 500.
aSecond-There r not a suffl-
Gent number of patrons secured
guaranteeing to furnish a certain
quantity of milk per day and the
managerxis either not capable OF
managing the business or is indiffer-
emit and thinks it Will run itself.
The result is the capital stock SO
large and the quantity of milk so
small and running expenses so great
in proportion to the product sold,
that it is impossible to pay a suff1-
Gent price for milk to make it sat
isfactory to the patrons much less
pay any dividend to the stockhoid-
ers. The result is the patrons soon
become dissatisfied and drop off one
by one, the factory closes and all
Join in the chorus that the creamery
business in Missouri is a failure.
ga few have been built under the
most favorable circumstances and
their failure is due wholly to bad
management at the start.
eff a merchant should come into
any town in this State and erect a
store building one-third or one
half larger than necessary for the
locality and pay two prices for it
and fill it with goods for which he
had paid twice their value, and then
ask the farmers to bring in their
produce and exchange for his goods,
think you there would be a rush to
purchase those goods? Before he
had sold his first bolt of cloth or
pound of sugar the verdict would
90 out that it is a failure. Thus it
is in starting any new enterprise if
it gets a backset in the start it often
proves fatal. 1t is anything but
pleasant to recount the misfortunes
of our neighbors but sometimes nee
essary that good may follow.
SIN returning to the original pro-
position:
"First-Select a locality suitable
for the dairy business, to-wit: A
soil adapted to grass and grain, and
a wide-awake energetic class Of
farmers that will guarantee to fur
nish 1000 pounds of milk daily,
with a fair prospect of an increase
in both patrons and quantity of
milk pure and clean.
"Second-The building should be
centrally located, substantially built,
conveniently arranged, supplied with
the latest approved machinery on the
separator plan, and plenty of pure
water.
This plant ready for operation
can and should be furnished at al
most any point in this State at a
cost of from s 5000 to $500.
"Third-The selection of a COM
petent manager to take charge of its
affairs, who can be found in almost
any locality and one that will keep
the daily expenses down to the min
imum. In the majority of localities
they need not exceed 81 per day.
I mean by daily expenses, every
thing except cost of milk, tubs, salt
and interest on capital invested, and
see that the utmost cleanliness is
observed from the time the milk is
drawn from the COW until the pro-
duct is ready for market; also urge
every patron to take and read a
good dairy paper.
"a creamery gotten up as above
set forth cannot fail to pay a yearly
dividend on the stock of from 10 to
Is per cent. and pay a price for
milk that will pay the patrons a bet
ter profit than any other branch of
farming with the same amount Of
capital invested.
"The sewing machine and patent
steam washer were both deemed
luxuries and highly appreciated by
the over taxed farmers wives and
daughters, but the creamery is a
God-send to them for surprising all
others, and within two years from
its start the creamery will enhance
the prices of farm lands within a
radius of 8 or 6 miles SO to SIS Der
acre, which no other branch OF
farming will do"
A FAMOUS COUNTY.
At the session of the Farmers In
stItute Mr.. John J. Gill, of this city.
to illustrate a remark that had been
made, "That scientists are slow to
catch on to agricultural facts, said
II will state that, when a boy, l
had the good fortune to sojourn a
short time in Lancaster County, Pa.
l need scarce say to those present
that this is the crack county of our
whole country and that it has been
made what it is by iudicious and sue
cessful cultivation. With the singled
exception of fine springs for diaries
and butter making it is doubtful i'll