Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-09-27
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Homestead-Hints
as to the Care of Live Stock and
Poultry.
Poorly Located Creameries.

One of the most serious hindrances
to the success of dairying in many
sections is the multiplicity of cream
cries within q small radius We have
watched, says Iowa Homestead, this
matter for ten years and noted the
evil results of crowding creameries
into too small a space in advance of
the dairy education that is needed to
make any creamery a success. Ten or
twelve years ago, when the creameries
outside of what was then considered
the dairy belt, were started, the i'm
preston was created in the minds of
many business men that there were
fortunes in the business and when one
creamery was started others seemed to
think that there was an opportunity to
start one or two more in the same ter
ritory. The result was that cream
wagons for two or three creameries
were driving over the same territory,
bidding against each other and offer
ing more than the cream was worth,
and the final result was the crippling of
every creamery and the failure of the
majority. 1t may be well to under
stand, first as well as last, that
the way of the creamery is not
the way to sudden and vast wealth;
that a creamery well conducted and
with sufficient amount of raw mate
rial in the form of milk within easy
reach furnishes good, profitable
business, but that the creamery can
not be run to advantage on small
amount of milk. For instance, if
township or any other section of
country has cows that will furnish
5000 pounds of milk day. with farm
ers willing to milk them, it is possible
there to establish a creamery that will
do a paying business. With this
amount of milk it will pay to secure
first-class butter maker and this will
pay the farmer fair price for the
milk. If, however, there are but
$500 pounds of milk, the owners will
feel that they can not afford to pay the
price that will secure a frst-class
butter maker and the result will be an
inferior product and inferior price and
also a larger proportion of cost per
pound of butter, all of which must
come eventually off the man who
furnishes the milk. Farm
ers then become discouraged and
quit and the result is that the cream
cry fails. Ten thousand pounds of
milk a day can be utilized at a
smaller expense than five, and
twenty than ten, for the reason that
one expert butter maker, one or two
assistants, who are learning the bust
ness, can be employed and the result
will be that the farmers will receive
a better price for their milk and be
encouraged to increase the quantity,
and thus the foundation of prosperity
for all concerned will be established
on solid basis. 1t is much easier
to avoid this mistake at the be-
ginning than it is to correct it after
the creameries have been esta blished.
Communities that are now thinking
of establishing creameries should first
see that there is an abundant supply
of milk within reach at small per
cent of cost for gathering and thus
proceed on thorough business princi-
pies. The creamery business is essen
TALLY manufacturing enterprise and
the important consid erations in all
manufacturing enterprises are, first,
an abundance of raw material, and,
second, the most economical way of
converting it into the finished pro-
duct, and then making a good use of
the by-products.