The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-29
How to Get n Creamery.

Ohio Farmer.
If some of you farmers who read this live
I'm a community where you have no cream
cry within reasonable reach and have be-
come convinced that it will pay YOU and
your neighbors to go more largely into
dairying, L advise that you first make a
canvass, yourself, among your friends
chose who make such canvass must have
the general confidence of the community
and find out how many good cows can be
secured from a certain radius, TO central
point as near a railroad station as possible;
i'm most cases ] advise To have the cream
cry right close to a railroad shipping point,
especially as some day the shipping of milk
and cream to a city may be profitable AS
YOU may not be able, for lack of expert
ence to persuade even your friends as cas-
lily as the shark can persuade perfect
strangers you may only succeed in inter
esting half as many as you need TO make
the business a success financially; yet TINS
should not discourage you.
That much secured, you should proceed
to find the best recommended man OF eXpe-
rience, one who has operated creamerles
for several years successfully, who also,
preferably, should have taken a course IN
one of our best dairy schools. But beware
of employing an inexperienced dairy stu,
dent, with maybe one season 8 practlcal
work i'm a creamery. because. no matter
how able and energetic and reliable such
young man may be, he is not the kind to
start up a business in new dairy section,
where the patrons must see a man before
them i'm whom they have confidence In eY-
cry way. and who is able to advise and d.
rect them how TO feed and how to handle
their milk properly. Get such a man to
come and canvass the neighborhood with
YOU, and in nine cases out of ten he VIII be
able 10 get enough more farmers interested
10 secure the necessary milk and capital.
He should be employed for this canVasSing
with the understanding that If the cream
erV is once secured he will be the man to
superintend the building and furnishing
the proper machinery and apparatus, and
that he will be the butter-maker land may
be cheese-maker) in charge, at a salary
worth working for. and possibly with GER
tain percentage besides on products sold, or
a certain interest in the business free. Thus
you are not only liable to secure a good
man. but one who will stay, and YOU and
all the patrons will know that such man
necessarily will do his best from the start
and continue thus because it will be abso-
lutely to his own interest as well as yours.
Thus securing that true cooperation L
have spoken of before, and working the
business UP in this way. you will find it inn
material whether the stock is all owned by
farmers or some OF II by business men.
You will also have an enterprise conducted
in such a manner that there VIII be very
little show FOR few unreasonable kickers
TO get another competition plant started.
This, by the way, l consider one OF the
most harmful. senseless undertakings,
which take place too often on account of
mistrust and jealousies probably often
well deserved, and causing only loss in
every direction, which in the end must be
paid by farmers.
To summaries: Never start a creamery
before you have the conditions to make il
pay. Be careful not TO build creameries too
close together | have no doubt at all that
the creamery of near future will be
large. central plant. built. equipped and
operated in the best way possible, and sup
piled from a number of collecting points
along railroad lines. Whether Swimming
shall be done at stations or at the cream
ery will depend on conditions, and pasteur-
ization for butter-making well as For
city and market and cream supply will be-
come the general practice.