The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-09-13
The Creamery and Cheese
Business.
FACTS GATHERED BY AN OBSERVER.
Mr.. j. b. HUMPHREYS, Of Austell, Visits
the Creameries i'm the Northwest
aud Tells About their Success.

ITlp 10 Cne northwestern states
and visited the Davis Manufacturing
Company in Chicago and saw the
cream and cheese machinery manu-.
featured in detail from the farmers
milk can to the Jumbo Separator.
They employ 600 men and their ma
chinery is considered the best. At
Turner, ILL.,, 35 miles beyond Chica-
go, | visited cooperative creamery,
been in operation five years, the
plant costing S5,017.00 and has de-
clared q dividend OF 224 per cent
per anDum. I. j. Gaud, the mana
ger, opened his books and gave me
information. | talked with farmers,
who brought their milk to the
creamery for sale, all were pleased,
and some had been selling for 20
years. Chris kurtz who had owned
stock in three creameries sold his
stock in tive, getting two for one,
but refused 70 sell his shares in the
Turner plant for that. He milks
Is cows, averaging $50 per head
and skim milk returned free.
b. f. Wurtz is milking 90 COWS,
realizing an average per cow of $50
per head per year, besides the skim
milk which they count at 20 cents
per 100 pounds for feeding pigs and
calves. Peter Weber milks SO COWS,
average per COW $500. John Ar
den milks Is cows, average $68.39
per caw. w. q. Buchanan, Ia COWS,
average per COW 1881. William
Grise, 81 cows, average per COW
1884. Price of milk for 1893 was
SOL per 100 pounds, skim milk re,
turned free-that is t1e farmers sold
their milk for $101 and hauled il
back with them again, less the but
ter fat. Mr.. Gaud showed US his
books and we found these farmers
statements coroborated. They take
in an average o. 1900 pounds Of
milk per day. This creamery pays
to the farmers $4,000 per year for
milk. They have recently added
the cheese apparatus.
| next visited Geneva, Ill. This
creamery has been IN operation for
20 years. The formers bought it -
years ago, and it has paid dividend
OF ~ cents per aunum. Their old
creamery having been built on a
hill and voted out, the Davis Cons
pany built them new one 2 years
ago at cost Of S., 500. This cream,
cry takes in IN average OF $4,000
pounds OF milk per day, and pays
out to the farmers ever $4,000 per
year. | learned there are 9 cream
cries here in a radius Of 9 miles,
besides milk shipped to Chicago. |
asked the farmers as they came in
with their milk IN the morning if
thry thought the business would not
DE overdOne. They said the more
creamerjes the better. The cows at
this creamery averages over $50 per
head Tor the mild season, some as
low as s45, others as high as $50.
They use 10 ice at this creamery.
1T is cooled by water. | did not
find one per cent of the farmers dis
satisfied, but ali we'll pleased. They
said 1t had been very hard on them
tor two seasons as it had been extra
dry. | drove out to the farm of Mr.
George Ford and saw my first silo.
lie had round barn and his silo in
the center Of the barn. He told me
that he could cut up and put sc
acres of corn in the silo. He was
a very friendly and sociable gentle
man. | talked with him some time
He asked me all about Georgia anC
our advantages and climate. lie
said that with our advantages and
long grazing seasons that we coulC
make more money in Georgia in thu
dairy business with our long seasons
and mild winters than they could il