The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-02-02
HOW TO BUILD A CREAMERY.

Mankato, Mimi, Daily Free Press, Jan. &c. "a
A great many creameries are being
built in the Northwest at the present
time, and it is important for their
success that they should get started
on the right basis. There are defunct
ereameries all over the country that
have failed to succeed simply because
they didn't get started right.
Mr.. o. G. Gregg, the superintend-
ent of the Minnesota State Farmers
Institutes has an illustrated article in
the last Farmers Institute Annual
that it will well pay any farmer or as
ISOLATION Of farmers intending en-
barking in the creamery business to
obtain and read. This article is in
tended to caution farmers against be-
ing led by agents to buy ready buih
creameries. Mr.. Gregg says: when
DESTROYS of having creamery in your
neighborhood, the proper way to do is
30 organize yourselves into stock COM
pany, and in no case let strangers and
possibly interested outside parties or.
ganize yOn Agents of some creamery
supply houses are constantly going
through the country offering to work
up creamery company in any
neighborhood. soliciting the stock and
Fetting out the articles Of incOrpora-
tion, building the creamery and equip
ping it and turning it over to an asSO-
siation of farmers at given price.
This of course seems like very
nice way, as it relieves the members
Of the creamery association OF all the
preliminary work and the Organiza-
zion of the creamery, but you can rest
assured no one is going to do this
work for nothing, and no outside
parties can do 1t so cheap and effect
i've as you can do it yourselves.
When any man comes along offer
ing to organize creamery company,
solicit the stock, draw the papers,
build the building and sequip it, turn
ing over to you ready built creamery
and taking all the work of organiza-
tion off your hands, look with sus-
picion on the project. He isn't work
ing for his health, but is doubtless
drawing big salary to do work you
can just as we'll do yourselves. No
outside company can go into a
neighborhOod and spend the time
necessary to work up company, build
and equip creamery, pay salaries,
travelling expenses and hotel board for
nothing, and they usually get good
large profit on top of the expenses
made.
If you want a creamerysin your
neighborhood, theI.proper way is to
form your own organization. Any4at-
torney will draw the necessary papers
for few dollars.
If you feel that you should be bet
ter posted on the creamery business
appoint committee to. go and visit
two or three successful creameries and
get posted; pay your own expenses
and do notall any creamery builder
to steer you or pay your expenses for
you. Then put up your own building
and BUY your machinery from some re-
liable creamery supply house, any one
of which will deliver it on cars to you
or set it up in the building if neces-
sary at reasonable prices.
BY following this plan it will be
found that from $500 to ST 900 in the
cost of creamery can be saved, and |
that a first class modero creamery can
be built and equipped for about $1,000,
while the builders Of complete cream
cries get from $4,000 to $1,000, the diff
ference in price depending on how well
those are posted for whom the work
is being DONE"
STREET LIGHTING.