The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-22
HOW 1T WILL WORK.
A Detailed Description of
the Methods that will
be Followed in the
Operation of
THE lola CREAMERY.
Also some Remarks Suggesting the AdVan-
tage that might come to our People
from Paying a Little rlOre
Attention to the
HOW 1T WILL WORK.
THE lola CREAMERY.
GREAT AMERICAN HEN.

The only creamery that most of our
people know anything about is the
one which operated awhile at Hum
holdt few years ago and then failed,
leaving nothing behind it but bad
odor and bad debts. On the princi-
pie that a burnt child breads the fire
it is not unreasonable that those who
suffered loss and disappointment by
the old creamery would be a little
suspicious of the new one, and should
want some assurance that it Is likely
to enjoy a longer and healthier life
before making very expensive prepa-
rations to patrOnize it. With the
idea of giving this assurance the
REGISTER had an interview with Mr..
Walton who is putting in the new
Creamery and Cold Storage plant at
lola, and the following is substan-
TALLY what he said:
"There is no branch of industry in
which machinery and methods have
so greatly improved during the past
ten years as the industry of butter
making on 2 large scale. The old
creameries used only cream and sent
wagons out through the country to
gather it up. We don't do that any
more. We buy the fresh milk and
the farmers deliver it themselves.
The delivery is made to suit their
convenience. Some will of course de-
liver only their own milk. Or per-
haps dozen neighbors will club to-
gether and take turns in gathering it
up and hauling it in. And in some
cases some enterprising boy or girl
will arrange a route and gather and
carry in the milk for small price per
hundred.
1.-THE milk must be delivered every
day, and ought to reach the Creamery
not later than ten o'clock in the morn
ing. The evening and morning milk
ings, and the milk furnished by diff
ferenr persons, must be kept sepa-
rate. Milk ought never to be closed
in q tight vessel until the animal heat
is all out of it. This heat can be
driven out very rapidly by putting
the vessel containing the milk in cold
water and stirring the milk.
when the milk reaches the Cream
cry each lot is weighed and tested
separately, an account being opened
with each individual patron. In
testing the milk we use what is
known as the Babcock tester, an in
strument which extracts every parti-
Gle of the fatty matter from the milk.
Four per cent milk, flour pounds of
fatty matter to the hundred pounds
of milk is regarded as the standard,
and the price is fixed by that. Milk
which tests higher than that brings
more and that which tests lower
brings less price. The price varies,
of course, with the time of year and
the price of butter. 1t will probably
range from 40 cents to so hundred
pounds.
alt would of course be impractical
BILE to pay cash for the milk as it is
brought in, and it is the custom of all
the Creameries that know anything
about to pay the fifteenth of each
month for the milk that was delivered
the month before. This makes the
first pay day six weeks from the time
the delivery begins, but after that it
comes once a MONTH"
"We are putting in twelve-hOrse
power engine, separator with cap
scity of 5000 pounds of milk daily,
and churns and butter mixers in pro-
portion. We hope to be ready to be-
gin work by the first of April. We
intend to handle all the milk that is