Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-12-08
About That Creamery.

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Editor PULLMAN HERALD.
Dear Sir:-In your issue OF the 18th
inst, there is an article copied from the
Uniontown journal, entitled "There's
Money in it," to which you call the ear
nest attention OF the farmers OF the Pa
louise country. Ii you will allow me
space in your paper would like to make
few remarks on the same subject.
The writer of the article has evidently
been talking with visitors from the
worlds fair who had their heads filled
with the immense possibilities OF the
baby state" and thinks because nature
has placed Washington far above her sis
ter states in many OF her natural pro-
ducts, that man can do the same thing
with her artificial products. 1t would
be well for the farmers to reflect little
before embarking in any Gigantic"
creamery business. Remember that the
tree to make the flagstaff at the worlds
fair commenced in very small way, and
only attained its gigantic size by spread
ing its branches just as fast as the roots
could furnish sap of the right kind, and
no faster; nature was years in growing
| the tres which man fashioned into a gil
gantic flagstaff in few days. So it is
with creamery; man can build NAM
moth creamery in a few weeks, but it
takes years to build up creamery bus
mess, and, like the tree, it can only grow
up as fast as the farmers, who are at the
root of the matter, furnish the necessary
sap.
A Gigantic creamery in Washington.
of course, would have to be just "leetle"
larger than any other one in the United
States; the largest at present being in
the poor little state of Vermont, hand
ling the milk from fifteen thousand COWS,
and shipping daily about seven tons of
butter to the large eastern cities. Now,
Mr.. Editor, have you that many cows in
the Palouse country? Have you a mar
ket for SO much butter when it is made,
and have your farmers the necessary ex-
perience to produce and take care of the
milk? These things are just as neces-
sary to success as the capital to purchase
the buildings and equipments.
1t is a great mistake to think that
creamery butter can only be made in
large factory, and with the help OF mod
ern improved machinery. Any careful,
painstaking farmer with dozen COWS
can make butter that will grade and
bring creamery prices in Chicago or New
York markets if he only knows how to
take C re of the milk and cream; and
the best equipped factory could not pro-
duce creamery butter unless the farmers
have done their part OF the work in a
proper manner. In all cases the quality
of the butter depends as much, II not
more, on the quality of the cream as on
the alb lity Of the butter maker. The
factory system by mixing great many
qualities of cream together makes ole
uniform quality, but the product is no
better than the average OF all the sam
pies so mixed.
Long practice and experience, OF course,
enables the factoryman to tell when the
cream is ready to churn, how long to
churn it, and just how much working
the butt er requires before it is ready to
mack, but he cannot make it any better
favored than the CT. am from which 1t
was made.
| have often thought OF the Palouse
country as very promising place for the
dairvman, Nature has supplied the
necessary raw materials-grass and
water-bountifully and your climate IS
etter adapted to this industry than
many of the eastern states that are now
growing rich in the business, but Until
the farmers see the necessity OF diversl-
fled farming there cannot be much prog
ress made. -.
have written this for the purpose OF
setting the farmers to thinking on the
subject; if you think it would do any
GOOD | will tell them some more about
the business in another letter, and how
if could be started on safe basis. There
are many communities in Kansas, Mis-
souri and Nebraska that have consider
able secondhand experience in the
creamery business to dispose OF cheap,
which would make as good teacher as
new experience costing thousands.
JAMES NELL,
Seneca, Kansas.
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