The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-12
*. y. C., THURSDAY. MAY l.. 1892.
Cooperative Creameries.

restrict SIcaS IN COItoA SuOdtd Aoch
into some Of the advantages or CO.
operative dairying and make al ef
fort to recuperate their losses by this
means. If they will but give this
system fair trial we are sure they
will be pleased with the results IS
well as find their farms gaining In
| fertility with the change in farming
and the larger amount OF manure
they will be able to save and use.
| Much labor Is saved and the result
Ing prodocts are more uniform and
will bring more money where this
system is in use than where each
| farm manufactures It's own butter.
| Not only this, but more cows can be
kept insuring greater returns IN cash
than could be hoped if all the making
and selling were done by the farmer
and his family.
1t is we'll within bounds to assert
that nearly every town in North
Carolina having any facilities at all
for shipment and sale of dairy pro
ducts could build and operate
creamery of from 200 to 500 cows
capacity anG that such building and
all the apparatus needed for success
full operation need not cost over
! $4,000 for the handling the milk of
the smaller number or $4,000 for
the larger number of cows,
There are numerous firms IN the
North and No Tia west whose sole
business it is to make and furnish
creamery supplies and they will un-
dertake to start and operate them
until some one in the organization
| can master the details and the enter
prise managed by home talent. All
there is to do to start creamery Or
butter or cheese factory ls to form an
association in which all the me mbeTs
have an interest. Each one should
subscribe a given amount of stock
which may be limited and sll should
be pledged to furnish milk from some
definite number of cows. The form
Of organization may be similar to
that of an Alliance with the special
object named and certain rules to
be observed 10 delivery of milk, pay
for butter &C., laid down.
Elect officers, begin paying in
your subscriptions and have the
officers open correspondence with
some of the following firms for kinds
and prices of apparatus while the
executive Committee proceed TO
select a site and put up the creamery
building. Mosely & Stadda7y, Rut-
land, Vt, D. H. Roe & Co, 54, 60
n. Clinton Street, Chicago, Ill,
Borden & Selluck Co., Chicago, H.,
DR.. Laval Separator Co., "A Garland
St, n. Y. City; Carnish, Curtis &
Green, Ft.Atkinson, Wis; Burrlll &
Whitman, Little Falls, n. Y; Yer
mont Farm Machine Co., Bellows
Falls, VT; John Boyd, Chicago, Ill.
By the time your building is ready
you can have found plenty of ap-
proved apparatus, so that your en-
terpise can be started at one of the
above amounts or even less, depend
ing somewhat on your diligence in
finding good apparatus and living
discounts from trade catalogue prices
and on the faculty OF the committee
for building cheaply and substantial-
ly at the same time.
Under date of 1879 Prof. L. B
Arnold gives a list of apparatus
needed for cheese N making alone for
400 cows which amounts to $702 &c
, adding to this for butter and cheese
too from the same milk, the total
apparatus needed could then be
purchased for $957.2O Prices on
these are no higher DOW than then
and you probably can get better
articles, now. Having the apparatus
for $1,000 in round numbers and
with lnmber as cheap as now
you are more than likely to erect 6
substantial building for $1,000
more, and haye capacitI to use the
milk of 400 cows at cost Of $4,000.
90. +. E EMERY,
Agrlcnlturist n. G. Expt- Station