The new North-west., 1897-04-09
WHOLE NO. 1247.
A CREAMERY.

A CREAMERY.
| Correspondent Discusses the Matter OF
Establishing One at Deer Lodge.
Editor of the New Northwest:
In recent issue of THE New NORTH
WEST you published hint as to the adj
visibility or desirability Of creamery
near your town. The establishment of
such an enterprise here would ease the
situation wonderfully as far as dull times
are concerned. j want to use some of
your space this week to tell you some of
the benefits derived from an economically
conducted creamery. Did you ever figure
on the profits to the farmer who knows
how to take care of his cows and has a
creamery in steady operation in the
neighborhood? If not I will tell YOU
something that has been proven fact.
A COW properly cared for will be capable
of furnishing milk for 200 to $50 pounds
of butter each year. The Illinois COW in
many instances does better, but out here
the stock has not been so carefully Sc
lected. Now $50 pounds is about all the
beef that can be added to steer in sin
gle year while it is being fattened for the
market, and there is quite difference in
the price of a pound of beef on the hoof
and pound of irst-class creamery butter.
| The difference is so great that farmers
should be devoting their time to raising
COWS for milk instead of beeves for mar
ket. A creamery in Deer Lodge would
furnish this opportunity. The value of
the butter output of the state Of Iowa in
a period Of 10 months amounts to many
millions of dollars. 1t is estimated by
farmers of illinois that a COW is worth
| $75 a year to its owner, and in less favored
states about $52.
Eastern communities that have cream
cries in operation do not feel the hard
times. The farmers of such communi-
ties pay their debts, while those of merely
agricultural communities, such as exist
in Kansas, Nebraska and other states, are
on the verge of bankruptcy or have al
ready taken the plunge. A creamery
built on the cooperative plan could be
made to pay for itself in two years at
most. The plant which has been found
most successful by actual experience is
one which will cost about $4,000. Such
plant can be paid for easily it, say, so
farmers and merchants will take shares
amounting to 500 each. That is the
plan generally adopted in the East.
Modern butter factories require skilled
butter maker, and if this vicinity can not
furnish such person one can be had at
any time, as the agricultural college at
Bozeman is training them.
Nothing helps community financially
more than creamery. The merchant
halls the advent Of the creamery, as it re-
lieves him of carrying a lot of alleged
butter, for which there is no demand, but
which he is obliged to accept in order to
hold the farmers trade. A creamery the
size suggested ought to put in circulation
$4,000 month, for all bills should be
paid monthly. This money oiroulates in
the community and equal to four or five
times as large an amount in its circula
ting power, for it finds itself in the same
hands half dozen times. If the farmer
furnishing milk to a creamery cannot
wait until the end of the month for his
pay, he has the advantage of making use
of milk checks which are handed him as
the milk is delivered each day. The
milk check passes as cash with business
men for it can be redeemed at the end of
the month.
Two things are essential for success
full creamery. One is that the supply of
milk must be large enough to keep the
plant steadily going, and the other is that
the creamery must be under good bust
ness management There will be no
difficulty experienced in disposing of the
butter, as the city of Butte alone could
consume many times over the output of
such plant as the above.
Deer Lodge valley can raise as good
alfalfa as any other valley, and such hay
fed to cows makes their milk yield large
and the very best from which to obtain
a fine favored butter. Let the farmers
and merchants talk this matter over when
they meet; it is to their mutual interests.
1t certainly can be made source of
greater revenue to the farmer than he de-
rives at present prices from any crop he
raises, possibly with the one exception of
hay. SEPARATOR.
DEER LODGE, April 5, 1897.
Attorney General Nolan, according toa
recent dispatch, has rendered an opinion
that all restorations to citizenship of con-
victs must be ratified by the board. The
opinion, in which the present state board
of pardons concurred, is important, be-
cause there were a great many restora-
tions to citizenship under the administra-
tion of Gov Richards, and in no instance
was the ratification of the board re-
quired. Those persons, the attorney gen
eral holds, are now illegally exercising
the rights of citizenship.
| 800 Reward 500.
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages, and that is