The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-02-05
The Dairy.
CREANERIEs.
A Profitable Industry for Many Sections Of
North Carolina and the South.

North Carolina and the South.
correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Diaries on a large scale, or the So
called creameries, are of two kinds.
First, the cooperative creamery,
owned and operated by a number of
farmers and dairymen. Second, the
creamery owned and operated by an
individual. A creamery is a large
establishment where the milk from
a large number of COWS and herds is
brought to place and there man
ufactured into butter or cheese the
dairy is where there is only one herd
and the milk is used whole or sepa-
rated and the cream sold or made
into butter.
The advantages of a creamery are
many, a few of which are here
enumerated. First, the quality of
the whole factory product is equal to
or better than the best Of the single
factory product in the community.
Second, u greater quantity of butter
is produced from the same COWS.
Third, the average selling price and
the net returns per pound of butter
are increased. Fourth, the cash in
come of the farmer is more than by
the old system, and at the same time
all the expense and labor of making
and marketing the butter is removed
from the farm. Also when the labor
of caring for the milk and cream is
removed from the farm, the result is
an addition to the number of COWS
and the rivalry between the patrons
of the creamery tends to make each
one improve his stock in order to
increase his profit. Another consid-
cradle advantage in the creamery is
that the patrons are paid at the end
of every month instead of having to
wait six months or more for returns
as in general farming. A great dis
advantage in the creamery business
is the difficulty of getting small
dairymen and farmers to keep up the
supply of milk necessary to run the
business at u profit. Another is the
inconvenience of getting the milk
from the many patrons scattered for
miles about the creamery.
That creameries could be made to
pay in this State especially in the
middle and western portions, can
easily be seen by noting cases under
similar circumstances in the States
North of Us, notably West Virginia.
In our State there are thousands Of
acres of land on the hiIlsides com
posed of red clay soil, which is the
very best for growing grasses for
use as pasture or for meadows. On
some of the lands of the middle and
western part of our State where 10
bushels of wheat is considered "a good
yield, and where there are natural
grasses good for grazing, we could
put four COWS on 10 acres of this land,
using her as an improved machine
to turn this grass into u much more
marketable product than either
wheat or corn. From u number OF
farms Of this kind a cooperative
creamery could be established and
return TO the soil in the form of ma
nUre from the COWS more than We
take from it in the form Of grass.
This mode of farming has been
made to pay, and pay we'll, in other
States North Of Us, where the win
tiers are longer and consequently the
grazing period Is shortened. Undcr
the same management it could cen
tainly made to pay here where We
have Ii longer grazing period. When
Il cooperative company or an ind
dividual has decided to put up d
creamery, the first thing decided i
where the building is to be placed
This should be u place where therei~
II plentiful supply of pure water unG
good drainage, and at some point a,
near as possible the center Of Il e
group of patrons.
Next is the size of the building,
which is regulated by the amount OF
milk of milk to be handled The
buildings necessary for a creamerv
of Il capacity of $4,000 pounds OF
milk per day, would be u main room
22x34 with Il shed room for the boiler,
engine, cool water, etc. In the main
room are the watts for milk, skim
milk and cream, a separator, churn.
butter worker and cold storage room,
the machinery to be arranged as i
most convenient.