Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-11-27
Anderson Bros.
jewelers. g. Opticians,
Drainage For tho Creamery.

Drainage For tho Creamery,
TIL. I. Thomson, the buttermaker at
Pennock, delivered an address before
the Minnesota State Butter and Cheese
Makers Association at St. Cloud last
week. The following is a synopsis of
the same:
MR.. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
NEARLY every department ofthe creamery and
| OF creamery work have been discussed over
and over again very thoroughly both at butter.
makers conventions and in creamery publica-
lions. The question of favor in butter and how
to produce good flavor we take up for discus
sion in one form or another at every butterma-
ker's convention. At this convention we have
the starter under consideration and that is GER
| tainly in very close connection with flavor. as
the starter and the rpening OF thecream are the
base of favor in butter, a good flavor or bad
flavor depending upon the skill OF the butter
| maker, provided he gets good milk It is the
flavor question that is the great stumbling
block to many would-be buttermakers, It Is
largely on that account that every Tom, Dick
and Harry cannot become successful butter.
makers. The weighing in Of milk, the skim
ming process, churning, sailing and working,
packing of butter, ETC.; all of these questions
as said, have been thoroughly discussed. The
question OF moldy tubs has been discussed so
thoroughly in the dairy press that it will almost
make any buttermaker sick every time he sees
an essay in the papers with the headline How
to Prevent Mold in Tubs" And still commits
sion merchants will tell you that moldy tubs
come in by the hundreds That must be very
Unsatisfactory to the gentlemen OF the press
It seems as II their energy has been wasted in
vain. There is one question, however, that
has not attracted very much attention, the
question OF drainage. Why the ''gentlemen
of the press do not take that question up I do
not know. Is it because it smells so bad, or
why? 1t is very serious question for many
creameries A creamery situated on the river
bank or creamery in town where the drain
can go down into the sewer has no trouble in
that respect. But with the hundreds OF cream
cries out here on the fat prairie it is different
Many of them can get the drain but few rods
away from the creamery. There it will STAY
and develop a perfume that is not very agree
able. That smell will travel in any direction
where the wind blows, even into the good peo-
pies houses and you will hear them say: THAT
d. creamery, anyhow!' That is bad, awful
ly bad, but the good people cannot help it.
The creamery gets the worst of it, though.
We have the windows open in summer, and
that foul smell will pass right through the
| creamery'and into your cream and butter The
Pennock creamery had 8 great reputation in
| several counties as "the worst smelling place
we ever saw" In fact, it was so bad that it
| attracted the attention of the dairy Inspector
| once he was out there, and he kindly recon-
mended that the creamery company improve
conditions. That was easier said than done,
| was specializing day and night to figure out
that problem. 1 got an idea and it proved
later to be a good idea. It was simply this;
II make system of bitches to take up the
waste water, so many bitches that the water
will sink into the ground and dry up every
day, then win not have any trouble from that
source. You know that dryness and sunshine
| are the worst enemies of bacteria; also of
| those that create the obnoxious smell from the
drain.
Some years ago read in a magazine very
interesting essay on irrigation and how irriga-
| ton practically has transformed certain parts
| OF southern states from deserts into gardens.
| And the idea struck me that it would be inter.
esting to make an experiment with irrigation
| right here by the Pennock creamery. Here
| would have a good opportunity; would have
| the water for nothing; was going to make
| bitches anyhow. Why not plant garden?
| have always been interested in what we NAV
| termintensive agriculture. This scurrying over
| hundreds of acres and just get few bushels
| OF wheat I do not fancy much.
Well, this was in the fall, and during the VIM
ter these ideas became more and more clear
T. no Cd ho6
well figured out how to go att. And it is very
important for success in any undertaking to
have clear mind-picture OF what you are 20
ing to do before you start
AS soon as the frost was out OF the ground
last spring went to work to plow up piece
OF ground right by the creamery. Ithadnever
been plowed before and 1t was hard as rock
! almost from all the driving over it. got it
very poorly plowed because was not able to
keep the plow in the ground narrowed and
drove over it several times with pulverizer
Then I started making bitches, most OF them
about eight inches deep. If the ground had
been level my irrigation system would have
been complete as soon as had made the
bitches. could simply have let the water
run into the bitches and left it to sink into the
ground, then by capillary action it would set
into the roots of the plants. But it was not so
easy. The ground had slope towards the
northwest corner and all the water would run
down there. It took several days before I
learned to manage the water. I built dams In
the bitches and in that way got my irrigation
system In good working order. Then started
planting. had most any kind OF stun-rad-
ishes, beets, lettuce, turnips, watermelons,
peas, onions, sweet peas, muskmelons, toma-
toes, cabbages and flowers To be able to give
. nice bouquet Of flowers to- every young lady
that comes to the, creamery-and every old
lady too, for that matter-just think OF It,!
s You think probably it was an awful lot of
work to take care Of the garden. Not SO very
I got the boys OF town interested in the under
taking. I had half dozen '.kils'' working
there once in while. I paid them seven
cents an hour Tor their work. They sold the
stun up town. 7 allowed them one cent COM
mission on every Ave cents worth sold. .s,
& AS for the result, It was most satisfactory.
Igot rid Of the smell and had 8 splendid gar
den. Everybody toldme, ut Is the best gar
den we have seen this year. y No doubt 1t
was, because when other gardens around in
dried up and Nitherod away, my garden was
just fourishing. y Il had moisture and sunshine
enough ana THAT IS what garden plants IKE.
n Most of the seeds bought " the store 81