Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1900-09-25


ADVANTAGES OF THE CREAMERY.
The recent hot weather has made but
Ter making on the farm, unless one has
the beat Of facllities, anything but u de-
sirable Job. without Ice and modern
dairy utensils, Indeed, Il is extremely
difficult TO make good butter at all. and
this hot dry weather makes II all but
impossible. Our creamery has secured
the milk from several farmers who never
pstronized IL before, and II looks as II
several of them have come to stay. They
are satisfied that II is the best way for
them To make their butter. And thus II
IL that the public cooperative creamery
Is gaining ground. Ii Is the result OF
evolution In dsirying and, like evolution
in all things, il comes slowly but surely.
Fifty or seventy-fve years ago our fore
fathers would not have believed that all
OF our boots and shoes would be made In
the modern factory Of to-day. They
were used TO making them themselves
and did not dream that they would be
made so nicely and cheaply ss they are
to-day. Many would not purchase the
fsctory-msde shoe Al first, believing they
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selves. Now the idea would not be en-
tertained for moment. The farmer
has found that he can better afford TO
turn his time into money and buy his
boots than TO manufacture them. Ii Is
on the same principle that In few
years We will, rs people, have lost the
art OF butter making. IL 10 bound TO be
made Ia the modern factory.
Figure what II costs u community TO
keep up the supply Of tools necessary
for butter making. Put down the value
OF all the churns. butter ladies, butter
workers, cream watts, cream cans and a
thousand and one articles that are ab-
soiutely necessary TO make butter, and
We have = sum that Will sstoDish Us.
But science has proven TO US that we
afford 70 make butter nowadays
without the use OF the modern cream
separator for separating the cream from
the milk. IL you add the cost OF even q
email separator for every farmer TO the
cost of the other utensils the smoun; be-
comes enormous.
The farmer does not usually think OF
all these various things when he con-
cludes that he cannot afford TO pstronize
the creamery. A big churn and butter
worker combined, turned by steam
power, answers for the whole neighbot-
hUod. A big separator, whirled by the
same power and at the'ssme time, takes
the place Of all the small separators In
the community. And last but NOT least
one or two men do the whole work and
relieve sll the farmers wives from the
hard task of butter making. IL there
ever was blessing In = farming section
devoted largely to dsirying, that bless
Ing Is good modern cooperative
creamery.
Another point; Creamery butter nj.
ways commands better price than dairy
butter. This Ia because creamery butter
Is OF a uniform quality and because u is
in sufficient quantities so
hat IL can be relied upon by the mer-
chant and consumer. The extra price OF
creamery butter Is usually sufficient 10
,over the cost Of manufacturing At the
creamery, and the improved machinery
md facilities will recover enough more
,f the butter fat which, added TO the
Extra price, will pay all expense OF haul
ng the milk, manufacturing the butter
and selling it. Thus the farmer receives
.s much or more from his cows and Is
minus the labor Of making the butter.
More than this, he Is relieved from the
Of purchasing the utensils
necessary for making the butter at home.
Farmer.