The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-27

for 1895 of which one-fifth will be gain or
profit for the company. They purchase
them Weighing from sevent y-five to 100
pounds and sell them when they average
from 160 to 10 pounds They confess to
having made the mistake OF locating their
hog corral too near the creamery, as no
hog should be allowed to live within half
mile of any creamery.
They have an, abundance of good, cold
spring water, which is piped about one
mile to a cement reservoir, with twenty
foot fall TO the creamery, and claim no
creamery can possibly be a success unless
they have plenty>of cold water and good
drainage, as it takes about twenty-five
pounds of milk to make one pound OF but
ter, and the same will make at least two
and half pounds of cheese. The COM
pany have done better on cheese, as none
is sold less than cents at the creamery,
and this would be as good as 15 cents per
pound net for butter. The cheese is mar
keted at thirty days old. and the butter is
shipped at 4 o'clock every morning and ar
rives in San Francisco and is on sale at the
Dairyman's Union before noon of each
day. They use sixteen ounces OF Ashton
salt to twenty pounds of butter if III
squares, or eighteen ounces ii solid packed.
For cheese three pounds of Ashton salt for
1000 pounds of milk. The milk IS Sepa-
rated at Y deg. and the nights and morn
lng's milk is mixed at the ranch. The
cream generally ripens at twenty to twenty
four hours.
The company pays the patrons on the
hrSt day OF each month for the previous
months milk and it is quite interesting to
see the faces of some of the ranchers when
they ascertain that some neighbor with
about the same number of COWS as their
own draws more money than they do by 10
to Is per cent. The Babcock test is the
best educator for the dairymen in the State
1t is in fact a dairy college located in every
creamery which reports to owners the
value, of their milk, or if they take the
trouble to test each COW in their dairy
they can ascertain the value of each COW
for profit. OF course if neighbor Jones'
milk has more butter fat than neighbor
Smiths, Jones gets more dividends and
Smith starts out on an investigation of his
own and does not stop until he ascertains
why Jones gets the most coin. Thus most
of the ranchers' spare time is spent dis
| cussing and reading up on breeds of COWS,
grasses, feed and care of the dairy. The
boys and girls get interested and this en-
llghtens the whole community. However,
some patrons are so ignorant that they in
siSt that those fellows up there at the
creamery with their Babcoek faster are
giving them the worst of it, and some hold
out their milk for time, but they soon
come back.
Creamery butter sells for from cents to
cents per pound more than ordinary but
ter, and ranchers cannot see why they
should make their butter up at homo and
sell 1t for cents per pound less when they
can deliver their milk at the creamery and
get their cash every month. The first test
in June showed the milk from the best
dairy of thirty-two cows to be Al butter
fat and the poorest dairy 3.8 per cent. The
former dairy were Jersey grades and the
latter Durham grades. feed and,care about
| the same. The Jersey dairy would draw
down 5S34 cents for every 100 pounds de-
| ivered and the Durham dairy Az cents.
Mr.. Burbank has sixty head Of Jersey
and grade Jersey cows, and for the year
1894 was paid in dividends $2940, and sold
about $500 worth of veal, making his cows
average him about $54 each. Being asked
the question if creameries had come to
stay, he gave it as his opinion that in
three years no dairymen would be found
within a reasonable distance of cream
cry making up his own milk on the ranch,
and tina: dairymen should take steps at
once to erect creameries in their neighbor-
hood. However, caution should be exer-
cised by parties contemplating organizing
creameries. They should visit others
already running and inform themselves
fully so as to be able to build them to the
best advantage, and at the least cost, and
at much lower prices than have so far been
paid. Certainly day spent at the Fallon
Creamery, with Superintendent Williams,
will pay any one interested in the dairy in
| dustry. X A HUGHsoN,
| 1901 Jackson street, Oakland, Cal.