The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1895-08-16
WANT ACREAMERY
Here is an Industry That Ought to be in
DaViSon County Making Money
For Farmers.
It is the One Industry Which Brings in
Money From One Years End to
the Other
JUST LIKE THE REST
An Alexandria Farmer Prospects in the
South for a Location and Returns
Satisfied.
JUST LIKE THE REST
THE CREAMERY QUESTION.
No Reason Why it Should Not be Pro
NOTED in This Country.

No Reason Why it Should Not be Pro-
NOTED in This Country.
With wheat at low price and q
yield that does not do Justice to the
labor expended in raising it people
should cast about for something to
keep the farm going from one years
end to another and in THE REPUBLI-
CANS opinion there is no industry like
the creamery business to do this very
thing. All over the state creameries
are being established with the result
that farmers find a favorable financial
standing at the end OF a year.
DR.. G. B. Clark, former resident of
this city and known to nearly every
body in Dawson county, writes about
the creamery business in the following
encouraging strain: Huron is now
completing arrangements for opening
a creamery, and will doubtless have it
in running order in the early spring.
Centerville, Vermillion, Sioux Falls
and other towns have been operating
in this line for the past eighteen
months, and their success has encour-
aged other towns to adopt their plans.
Lroquois, a little town east of Huron. is
selling from its creamery So, 800 worth
of butter per annum. A cheese factory
is soon to be added to this plant. The
plan adopted includes regularly or
ganized board Of trade in the central
town, which board controls the entire
business, gets special rates of shipmenq
to eastern markests, and has special
advantages in securing the top of the
market in prices.
The cause OF this revival of interest
is two-fold. First, by actual expert
ment and comparison with other states
it has been demonstrated that the
grasses of South Dakota produce /!
per cent more of butter fat to giver
quantity of milk than do the grasses O
Iowa and Illinois. So impressed wal
| Mr.. Babcock (the inventor Of the cream
test with the fact, that he remarked
to Mr.. Wheaton, of our own agricul
tural college, What fools those Soutl
Dakota farmers are to spend their time
raising wheat. Tell them to turn thei
whole state into dairy farm and ge
rich
The second cause of this change Q
front is found in the substitution o
the cream separator for the old system
OF cream pans. By this latest system
one-third more cream is produced fror
the same amount of milk than By tn
old system. The farmers wife is re
lieved entirely of the drudgery c
skimmiug and churning. The mill
is hauled to the separator, the crear
is separated in a few minutes, and tn
farmer takes his milk home to feed
his hogs and calves.
In this vicinity number of farmer
join together and each in his tur
hauls the cream to the creamery ono
a week Each batch of cream is tested
each farmer gets credit for the amour
of cream he has furnished, and the al
count is settled the first of each mont
by cash payment.
One farmer near Iroquois has sol
$50 worth OF cream per month to tn
creamery at that place during the pr
sent winter, and has been milking b,
nine COWS, that were fed on prair
hay only.
Geo. T. Lane, the manager of tt
Beadle county system, told me recent
that he expected to see creamery ar
six sepearators established in tn
f. county during the present yeaa.
Minnesota county just east of US CO.
tanning twenty-six townships, hi
f. twenty eight creameries running
t full blast.
The advantage Of this system is tn
the farmer has constant income wi
but slight outlay. Instead OF taking {
his chances in one crop, which is like
to be destroyed by hail or hot wind
he takes no chances whatever; he
: sure of his living, and a constantly
creasing herd of cattle. To provi
% against the failure of grass in Augu
and September, the farmers here pr
pose to sow millet early, so as to secu