The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-01-23
BUTTER AND CHEESE.
How to Make tho Dairy Profitable and
Enrich tho Farmer.
Greeauille News.

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ensure its maintenance. For any
manufacturing enterprise, plenty OF
raw material must be in sight before a
| foundation stone is laid. A creamery
or cheese factory is no exception to
this rule, as many neighborhoods
where large and costly oreameries have
been erected. have found out to their
cost. Before building creamery or
cheese factory the milk Of sufficient
number of good COWS should be pledg-
ed for year or more. In practice, it
has been found that three hundred
COWS, within three miles Of the fac
tory, are as few as will ensure sue
cessful business.
| To pay the running expenses Of a
hundred COW creamery would require
such large percentage Of the receipts
that-there would be no money in the
business for the producers of the
milk.
The site of a creamery or cheese
factory should be easily accessible by
| good roads, should have large sup
ply of pure water, and sufficiently ele-
waited to secure good drainage.
There are many different ways in
which cheese factories and creameries
are conducted, which, for the sake Of
convenience, may be classed under
one Of the following heads: proprie-
tory and cooperative, which names
explain themselves. In the latter
class the farmers who supply the milk
usually own the plant, elect officers
from among their number, hire the
labor and conduct the business.
Another way is to employ some re-
sponsible maker to handle the milk
who charges certain price pound of
cheese or butter for manufacturing,
which is somewhere about II cents
per pound for cheese and 4 cents per
pound for butter. The proprietary
dairies are run on the railway mana
gers ma1im-"all the traffic will
stand" The cooperative basis has
naturally proved to be more satisfac-
tory to the farmers as all the proceeds
less the expenses 60 to them.
To start cooperative dairy enter
prise there must be one or more public
spirited citizens, who possess the con-
6dence Ct the community, and who are
willing to spend a little time in post
ing themselves upon the requirements
Of, and working for, the business. A
public meeting might be arranged for
to which all interested in COWS and
COW products should be invited. Speci-
| ally invite the ladies, as creamery
| will relieve them Of the drudgery Of
making butter in dash churn. After
| full discussion, lists can be opened
| for the subscriptions Of those who are
ready to put their money and COWS
into the business. A canvass should
be made of any others. not at the
meeting, who might wish to take part.
Before proceeding very far meeting
of the stockholders should be called,
a constitution, by laws, rules and regu-
lations adopted and a permanent or
ganization effected. Cooperation
| means working together, and is found
| in all trades and professions except
farming. Should the elements Of CO.
| operation be lacking, should opposi-
tion, or worse still Indifference, be
met with, it is better to encourage the
furtherence Of private dairying and
wait for the growth Of more healthy
| public sentiment.
Neighborhoods, attracted by the
glittering bait held out to them by the
agents of certain dairy supply houses,
sometimes make the mistake Of build
ing and eqiupping too e1pensively at
the start.
It is better to commence in modest
way and enlarge the premises and plant
as the circumstances Of the case de-
mand; and the building and machin-
cry should be planned with this end
in view. Many creameries carry on
proftably trade in cream, ice cream,
butter milk and even eggs. Ice, or
artificial refrigeration, will be indis-
pensible for making butter in summer;
and, whether to get small refrigerat-
ing plant, which can be had as low as
$3.50, or to buy ice is question that
must be decided.
A cheese factory is very cheap and
simple affair. The building needs be
only one story plain frame structure,
having the walls and ceiling Of one
room we'll insulated by the plentiful
use of building paper so the tempera-
ture can be controlled. The outfit for
manufacturing the milk Of three hun
dred COWS into cheese need not cost
over $500, and the total cost of build
ing and outfit would not exceed s. per
COW. In country district, with the
surroundings favorable, cheese fac
tory could be made highly profitable
if the patrons would bend their ener-
gies to the production Of cheap milk,
but in a town cheese factory by itself
might prove failure. Taking such a
large quantity of milk off the market,
as o cheese factory does, would create
a shortage in the local supply Of milk
| and butter and an advance in prices to
| tho datriment where there ia consid-