The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-03-19
creaner,es ana skin, stations.

.h 1Co dltO AIGn SkhtnUll0s
The system OF creamery operation
which has found most favor in Kansas.
is, we think, peculiar to that state and
worthy of careful consideration by The
older dairy communities. The skim
station plan. which is one Of its chief
characteristics, has been adopted to
soma exteut in other sections Of the
country. bur nowhere to so great an px-
tent and, so far as We know, without
some of the important features peculiar
to the Kansas plants. We refer to the
plan frequently adopted there for the
installation Of skim stations which
seems to combine all tho advantages of
co operation on the part of Gairympn,
with the equal advantages OF individual
operation OF the creamery. 1t Is quite
common in Kansas for tho operators of
churning stations to extend their ter
ritory OF cream supplies by tins system
Of corporation. Farmers i'll any favora-
BILE locality are invited to join together
to build a skim station. form a stock
company for the purpose and erecting a
plant at comparatively small co st; this
plant is then leased by the creamery
company for q term Of years and at a
rental which gives the owner a fair in
terest ON their investment, usually more
or less according to the amount Of milk
handled at the station. The patrons are
paid for their milk according to test
and tho concentration of the cream at
central churneries where butter is man
ufaciurpd on a large scale gives many
apparent advantage. In the first place
the average haul is reduced, and cheap
ened by the utilization OF railroad Ser.
vice of transporting the cream.
1t is evident that in sections where
milk producers are widely scattered and
separated by considerable distances. com-
plete creameries, which conduct all the
operations of bnttermaking from the
rfw milk. and whose operations arc
limited by the aEonnt OF milk possible
of collection by wagon, cannot compete
with plants operated Oh the Kansas
system; and when butter factories are
established upon this larger basis they
are practically free from the danger OF
DISRUPTION by a consolidation Of their
patrons, such as for a time played havoc
with individual creamery operations in
other parts OF The country. And this
safeguard to investment arises from the
fact that the system possesses economies
which cannot be met by smaller
factories.
The most apparent Of these economics
are, first, the ability to concentrate the
working force liz such a wav as to fully
employ each man at the special part of
the work for which he ia best 6tted-a
matter Of great importance in that con
slant application to one phase brings ex
ceptional dexterity and ability; secont
in the ability to utilize machinery to 1T
full notwithstanding an enormous
saving in Investment; third, in reducing
the aggregate of those expenses of opera
ton which are common to each separat
plant AID which are almost as great ii
asaai.-.... srs.aa,s..sas III a large one. An,
additional advantages are derived from
the production of long Ines of goods O
uniform qnality--a quality which ca!
hardly fail OF improvement in a plan
large enough to make possible the in
%stallation of every modern advance il
appliances and methods OF operation.
We believe the idea that this principle
of fewer chllrneries and large operation
cannot lie profitable applied in tn
mMe thickly settled dairy sections |
%unsound. 1t wonld seem, in fact, tina
the more thicklv settled Tho country tn
better is the opportunity for chpapenin
production by a concentration Of til
lnnin processes of manufacture. w
llavs little doubt that il the Kansas sys
tenn Of hnttermaking were carried to il
fullest development in Iowa ant Min
nosota the reduction of cost would al
greatly to our advantages in compptin
for the hnttpr trada of importing nj
tiOns.-Naw York Produce.