Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1893-02-02
Condensed Milk Factories.

WATERyIILE, Jan. 20, 1898.
4 The EUsu0rth Americdn
4 In regard to locating and erecting a con-
sdensed milk factory in Hancock county,
Gin the vicinity of Ellsworth, we would
ssuggest, first, let the business men tho are
sanxious to build up the town raise, by con-
Htribution or otherwise, the sum of 5000 !;
Sthen select two good sound, safe, business
amen and let these gentlemen visit Brew !
Ester, n. Y. and Wassaic. Perhaps it
4 swould pay them to go still further and
look over the plant at Lansing, Mich, and
8 w hile In the West visit that great dairy
.center Elgin, Illinois.
When these people return and advise
Starting the industry Of condensing milk
{ and various other devices incident TO the
dairy business, then there are three way S
sto commence operations, one Of which,
swould be to form a syndicate of smart ),
4syoung, wealthy, business men, with suftl-
Ecient capital to build and operate fac-I
yytory. Second, it can be done by forming
ato raise the necessary funds. A third
proposition would be to guarantee GER
atain sum of money to the Aroostook Con-
sdensed Milk Company to be raised by pur-
sschasing their stock, this company agree!
sing to build, equip and operate factory
with the capacity to condense the milk.
pproduced by 5000 cows
: The least sum that we would advise the,
Syndicate or stock company or the Aroos-I
! took Condensed Milk Company to start
with would be $50, 900.
The fertility of your soil is unquestion
<ably good enough to sustain such an in
sdustry. 1t is practical to bring milk FROM
Ia radius of twelve miles each way, onI
which area probably to-day there are not
ever 200O cows; yet when the farmers arej
shown that they are to have an all-the-
4year-round demand for all the milk they
can produce and are to be paid for the,
3same a lucrative price, spot cash, every
thirty days, we presume your farmers
would do as the farmers at Newport and
Winthrop are doing, taking their money
out of savings banks on which they are
receiving very small interest, with no
4guarantee behind the investment, except
1.-THE fidelity and shrewdness of the trustees
of these institutions, and putting it back on
to the farms where it always should have
remained, and would have remained had
lot oviuo ho al
|cowardly retreat to these institutions
where the opportunity of evading taxation
was afforded.
We have no doubt in our minds that the
day is not far distant when Newport and
Winthrop will don city clothing as the
great dairy interest of the country. cen
tering to certain point, imparts untold
prosperity peculiar to itself. The money
distributed at these milk centers goes d.
rectly into the farmers and operatives
pockets, thence into the channels of trade.
One hundred milk teams bringing milk to
. certain point make that pivotal point a
very active scene. and as a milk factory
once started on q good business basis is
started for all time. three hundred and
sixty Eve days per year, one can hardly es
innate the great advantage to be derived
3from such an industry.
n Your farmers who visit dense dairy dis.
Mtricts in New York or Vermont, where
Twenty five to thirty-fve cows per square
( mile grace the hillside pastures and lenG
additional fertility to the rich valleys, will
conclude as did that the farmers of tht
State Of Maine, with their i've cows pei
square mile and their $50. .000, 900 in sav