The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-26
Making Butter in Iowa.

The following letter from A. c. White
in charge OF the leading creamery OF
Iowa, will be of i'm crest to our farmers,
says the Provo En- quirer. Mr.. Whites
name is also connected with church
history. 1t was he who furnished Presi-
dent John Taylor with the old Pizgah
bury ing ground. wn ere about 600 Lat
ter-day Saints are buried; and it was
also through him that the Pizgah mon
uinent was erected. We publish the
letter through the courtesy of Mr..
Huntington:
Talmage. Iowa, April II, 1897.
air. Q. B. Huntington, Springville,
Utah:
De2r Friend-Your truly welcome let
ter came duly to hand, the only excuse
I can offer for not writing before is
that 1 have been very busy, in the
Creamery business. Every day is just
alike and that means every day brings
2 great deal of work and care.
You asked me some questions about
our methods. In the first place, our
company is farmers company, nearly
all Of our patrons are Stockholders
We use the separator system. Mix is
hauled to the creamery and separated
every day. all sour. tainted or dirty
milk being rejected by the veigher.
The cream is kept one day TO -ipen
and then churned. The butter is
shipped to New Haven and has never
failed to bring a top price; in fact. we
now have contract that we shall re-
ceive whatever Elgin butter is quoted
: in New York City on the day of sale
without any commission being charged.
The present price is 20 cents, less "A
ccnts-net 1876 cents
Our milk is all tested with a Babcock
test. but as the churn always makes
from Il to p per cent more butter than
the test shows butter fat we find the
yer cent of overrun by taking the
amount of butter made every month
and finding the difference between the
amount Of butter fat shown by the test
and the butter actually made. for in
stance, if milk by test showed four
rounds, butter fat and the churn over
run p per cent. that patron would re-
cei-e four and one-half pounds of but
ter for every 100 pounds milk furnished
and every other patron the same ac-
cording TO their test. This is the over
run and whatever per cent this is goes
10 the patrons.
We charged cents for making the
butter and freight costs u cent to New
Haven, so any patron can look at a
daily report and tell just what his but
ter is bringing him. Our books are
open TO the inspection of any patron.
By this method we have obtained their
confidence, and l can safely say that
there is not one dissatisfied patron in
the territory where we operate
We have more than q local reputa-
ton, and we have the most successful
creamery in southern Iowa The man
agernent Of the Chicago & Great West
ern railroad call us the model creamery
and by their advice there have been
delegates from nearly every new
creamery that has started on their line
or road in this state during the last
year to investigate our methods.
our main factory has two large
ns2arators and a combined churn and
i-itter worker. The butter does not have
-. % handled after the cream is placed
IN the churn until it is ready to pack.
We have our ice house at the main fac-
tofy, holding 300 tons of ice We have
one skimming station seven miles south
ard one seven miles north of the main
factory, one separator at each place. all
run by steam engines. We use no tur-
bine separatOrs.
We keep three men at the main fac
tory. The head butter maker. who is
also manager. we pay $50 per calendar
month; no pay being allowed for extra
time. One man who has been with us
fcr two years we. pay $40 and another
nan so. We furnish the head man
with house, butter and milk for his
family use. We have one man at each ,
G alton, who receives 81 per dav for
tending to the station doing all the
work and hauling the cream with his
own team to the factory. The milk
received by our creamery last wear
= veraged $40 pounds of butter to 100
pounds Of milk