The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-08-06
FAR R
OPINION
Concerning Work Of
FairmOnt Creamery
Benefit 1t Has Been to
the m What 1t Is
Doing and Intends Doing.

1t is hard to appreciate the work be-
ing done by the Deniscn creamery I'M
der it's present management unless it is
given special attention.
For about ten years the creamery
plant at Deuison tand there wete
otlers) had been a dismal failure. The
plant was first established by shares
subscribed by business men OF Denison
and farmers in the vicinity. and run un-
der a sort of cooperative plan. No one
really understood what the situation
demanded or how to rustic the milk
till the stockholders felt they had in
vested in a very doubtful charity. Some
fellow would come along. lease the
creamery, run as long as his credit
lasted, then quietly disappear. his
board ahead. and the community sad
der and possibly somewhat wiser. This
sort of thing had been worked till it
was hardly safe for a man to go or a
farm in the county and mention cream
cry unless he was al extra good sprin-
ter, for nearly every town had its
creamery experience.
Things had come to this end simply
by bad management. Crawford county
is naturally adapted to dairying and if
thoroughlv established means a higher
grade of agriculture at a better profit.
The Fairmont Creamery Co.. simply
showed that they understood their
business. when they decided to build up
a creamery in Crawford county and
further that they knew what the sit
\ uation demanded when they adopted
the hand separator.
A year ago last spring when | heard
the Denison creamery had started |
80. 90 - -. ..~1 t%~-, o,r +
would last. l alread- I'd a hand
separator but tho,.@ The creamery
was a good thing to let alone. But
Southwell got on tie farm before I
knew it and that settled it. He claimed
that he would make more out OF my
cream By selling it to them than max
ing it at home and be the work and a
nice per cent profit ahead. | didn't
more than half believe it but thought
would test it. On six COWS in two
weeks I was at least two dollars ahead
NJ besides the work Of making. and every
VI. check since has been convincing evil
dence that the creamery makes no
promises it can not fulfill. Anyone set
ting milk in cans and depending upo
the local market to dispose Of his pro-
duct can make at least Is per cent
more cold cash with one-third the work
by using a separator and selling his
cream to the and unless the
facilities are the best the margin will be
wider.
These results to the patron which
are secured by good management in
side, which means good butter; and
OF hustling outside. which means
y plenty Of cream. has made the tre-
mendous growth in the creamerys out
put.
This is the record: Ap:il 1000, SOY
pounds butter or about 42o pounds OF
milk per day. 1t is conceded that a
creamery must have at least 5000
pounds Of milk per dav to be on a
paying basis. This gives an idea what
the management had 10 contend with
ION the start.
May, aa56 pounds of butter: June
Il 72oI pounds Of butter, or 6.ooS pounds
Of milk per day; just about the pay
ing basis; July, 1928 pounds OF butter
August oS3I pounds OF butter; Sep
TENDER 1000 pounds OF butter; oc'
tober 1900 pounds OF butter: Novem'
Der 1870 pounds of butter: Decembel
12zS7 pounds of butter. Total So.47,
pounds Of butter for the nine month II
1000. For the first six months IN 1901
January 1924 pounds OF butter; feb
ruary I7,27I pounds OF butter; Marcel
2o,132 sounds OF butter April 2e,55:
pounds OF butter: May 44,o67 pounds o
butter; June $4,000 pounds oil butter
Total 1876 pounds OF butter or al
most two and one-third times as mrci
butter for the first SIN months oil 100
JAS for the nine months in 1000.
NJ The largest days make was in June
VI 1000 pounds. with an average week..
4 output OF about 300 sixty pound tubs
The creamery's payroll to the tarme
and employees for June, 1901, was be
tween SI1.ooo.oo and $I2,ooo,oo. The
employ forty-six men, thirty-seven c
them outside of the creamery in var
ious parts OF the county. There is n
better way to make money plenty.
But there must be cooperation an
confidence between the farmer and tn
Screamerv's management. No butte
7 maker can make good butter unles
the cream comes to the creamery /
good condition. clean and sweet.
quote from a man who knows what
necessary to the business: ;.
sIn making good butter there can b
\ no break. no negligence, no shiftles'
ness between the COW or the tar1r@"
farm and the placing Of the finest bu
ter on the table OF the consumer
"a good prices are to be paid and a
~ parties receive their proper share
| have kept tab on the creamery. +;
to weights and tests till | am satlshe
I that they are strictly on the sauar
There is no excuse for any one bein
cheated by the creamery, for with q
outlay Of about $500 he can tell e.
actly as to the returns. There is !;
more chance for the patrons to VOL
the creamery. !,
1t is especially fortunate that Il
creamery is in Crawford county tn
year. To the man that cuts UP {
his feed and feeds to his COWS tt
drouth is only an incident n not
\ disaster. If any one who has watch'
IN for rain till he is blue, will go o
under his zig tree or cottonwoo
Doxelder, willow. or even the shady SIT
of the barn will do, with pencil al
paper and figure out the number
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