The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-09-20
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The COOPERATIVE CREAMERY
How Farmers Can start Small One md
Make It Pay.


How Farmers Can start n Small One mud
Make n Pay.
A good creamery is of great value in
any community of farmers, and, as u
rule, more is obtained ut such places for
the cream than the farmer can get for
the butter manufactured from it. But
creamcries are not always located Just
where they arc needed. II takes a large
productive dairy district to supply even
Il small creamery with all the cream it
needs. There are consequently many
farmers scattered throughout the coun
try who must make their cream into
butter to dispose Of it and accept such
low rates for the product at the country
stores that there is little profit in it.
The result is they find little money in
dairying even with good cows.
1t is in such places that cooperative
dairying is today proving of great value
! 90 farmers. Where the business is run
on right principles money is made much
easier aud faster than according to the
old plan Of making a little butter on
each farm and selling 1t to the country
stores in return for other articles. Of
course there are some farms situated so
close to good markets that farmers can
make money in putting their butter up
in fancy prints for special customers.
Where this is possible it is not advisa.
bic to enter into combination with the
neighboring farmers to make the butter
on the wholesale plan.
Il,
theneighborhood is small undertaking.
The whole outfit, including n cheaT
building, separator, small engine
and cream and milk watts, should cost
about 5000 Sometimes a vacant build
ing could be used for the work. so that
these expenses could be deducted from
the amount. Such a sum is not great il
a community where dozen or NOR,
farmers are going to contribute towart
its erection. All of the farmers coult
then cart their milk direct to the sepa
rator, where the cream could be takei
off and the milk returned each day
The separator will do the work bette,
and quicker than any other invention
The hauls will not be long, as the farm
ers contributing will all be in the i'm
mediate neighburhood.
In this building the butter can b.
made all at once and after some ont
method. Such butter is superior to tn
small amounts made at different time
and packed away in the same jar
Plenty of ice can be supplied to the sep
arator company at small cost per head
The manufacture of this butter must b
given into the hands of one who under
stands the work thoroughly. The worl
can be divided up among n number, o
one man be selected for the work who i
known for his ability to manufactur
the right article
1t is almost as easy to make a ton o
butter as it is to manufacture / 0 pounds
and all of the labor that is now spent Of
the individual farms will be dispose
of. But, after all, the real gain is il
the selling. The butter will be made il
large quantities, packed carefully an
kept on ice until needed. In this wa
arrangements can be made to send tn
butter to large cities, where cash can b
obtained for it. Cash should be take
every time in preference to trading
out. By tho latter course the farmer al
ways loses, for the storekeeper impose
upon him with double profits. e.
Smith in American Cultivator