The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-09-05

| hundred cows.
1t is the modern Gu stom for the Gre
mary Manager to pay TO its patrons Sc
much per 100 lbs of milk, according to
its richness. or content of butter fat,
this being determined by an instrument
called the Babcock Milk Test, which
which will tell in a few minutes, how
many pounds of butter a given lot of
milk will produce. The priced varies,
at different times and places, from sc
cents to $l.25 per 100 pounds of milk,
and according to the quality of the milk
and the market price of butter.
The skim milk is returned free at once
to the patron furnishing the whole
milk, and is carried home to be con-
sumed in the kitchen, or on the table,
or fed to pigs, calves and chickens. 1t
is practically the same rs buttermilk,
except that it is not sour.
Often, instead of q joint stock COM
pany, Cooperative Creamery is formed
in which the patrons simply combine to
furnish milk and operate the creamery,
and after paying expenses the profits
are divided among the patrons accord
ing to the amount and quality of the
milk each patron supplies.
AS stated in Press Bulletin No. 81,
for July: "A complete outfit, includ:
ing engine, boiler, power separators,
churns, yats and all implements and
appliances, including building, sufi-
Gent for 500 cow creamery and cheese
factory combined, may be laid down at
any railroad station in Georgia for not
exceeding $4,000. If for butter alone
the outfit will be several hundred dol
lars less. There are parties going
through the state working up an inter-
est in the subject Of Creameries, being
agents OF Chicago manufacturing
company. These gentlemen would be
doing good work. were it not for the
fact that they are charging exhorbitant
prices for the machinery they furnish
| fully twice as much as the above
figures Possibly it will work out
for the best, after all, as It seems that
no one else will undertake tAe work Of
promoting and developing Creamery
enterprises. Farmers will find out after
awhile that they can buy machinery at
half the prices charged by these enter
prizing agents, who are now ''reaping
their harvest" Write to Mr.. J. w. ia.
CODY, LaGrange, Ga, for practical an
formation about putting up creamerfes.
He has lately formed a company and is
operating Creamery at LAGRANGE, the
whole costing $4,000, including some
| extras"
| There is a number of larger dealers
in and manufacturers of Creamery out
fits, including, or not including, as may
be desired. machinery for cheese max
ing. Some of these possibly any Of
them furnish complete working plans
and drawings of the necessary build
ings, showing the method of construc.
| ton, interior arrangement, etc, to any
parties buying of them. Names and
addresses will be furnished on applica-
ton to the Director.
| H. B. W., Hawkinsville, Ca: Please let me
| know something about the difference, II any,
between the Unknown and Wonderful cowpeas.
| Is the latter really the better pea, or is it
| "fake"f What is your opinion?
ANSWER by HUGH N. STARNEs, Horticultu-
| rist:l
Opinions" should exist only where
there is reasonable ground for uncer-
tainty. Facts are facts, and cannot be
brushed away by Opinions" Last year
the Georgia Experiment Station tested
a pea obtained through an Atlanta firm
from 7. w. Woods & Co., prominent
seed dealers of Richmond, Va. This
pea was called by Woods & Co., the
"IVondGfU." 1t was carefully tested
alongside plat of the "UI,knOWn" pea
| no 30
several years. IN every feature, includ-
ing yield, appearance, time of maturity,
size, shape and color of pod and pea,
habit of growth, etc, etc, the two were
| identical.
| There is no room for an opinion"
on this point. The two peas were the
same, absolutely. Other stations, in
Guiding those of North Carolina and
| Texas and | think those of Mississippi,
Louisiana and Alabama as well, have
made this test with the same announ.
ced result, though do not know where
they got the seed used. Understanding
| however, that one H. G.. Hastings, of
lnterlachen, Fla, has claimed through
the columns of certain agricultural
| publications that the peas so reported
on by the different stations were not the
same pea as the "WOnderfuL' sold by
the firm of H. G. Hastings &, Co., and
that the Hastings Wonderful" was an
entirely different pea and would prove
vastly superior to the ordinary I'M
| knOWn pea of commerce, we purchased
a package Of seed from Hastings & Co.,
and are now testing them side by side
with our CnknolUn Should the Hast
| ings Wonderful prove to be different
from the UnknOWn and superior to it,
the Georgia Experiment Station will
most cheerfully publish the fact. If,
on ehs contrary 1t proves to be identi-
cal wash the Unkno1On the public shall
also be informed of it; and. let it be
noted, that the result, be it as it may,
will be published as fact, not as an
opinion. At present the two plats 0p-
| pear TO be identical. but the peas are
only in bloom and it is too soon to make
a prediction. We shall be glad indeed
to welcome any pea that proves itself
superior to the UnbnOiOn. and if the
| WONDERFUL las disseminated by Hast.
ings & Co.. should turn out what they