The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-01-17
The MONTHLY MILK CHECK.
How It Pays the Grocery and Dry
Goods Bills.
The Annual Butter Product Of Kansas is
Over 42sOOO,OOO Pounds, Valued at
$1,000, OOO-A Dairy That Paid
for Half Section of Land.

vice president OF the Continental Cream
cry company, Of Topeka, says:
Fifteen years ago Kansas had no
dairy industry worth mentioning. At
this time she has dairy products to the
amount Of forty three and one-half mil
lion pounds, ono and One-half millions
being cheese and the forty-two millions
being butter. In value Kansas butter
product IS worth nearly seven millions
and her cheese worth one quarter mil
lion. Engaged in this manufacture are
70 creameries supplied with cream from
milk received at 500 skimming stations,
and on whose monthly pay rolls are 80,
600 Kansas farmers. Compared with
Minnesota and Wisconsin the showing
made by Kansas is not large but the
possibilities of the SunfloWer state bid
fair to compel her northern neighbors to
take a seat in the rear some time within
the next . years. Shelter and feed are
the two lines OF heaviest expense in the
dairy. In the northern states severe
winters and short growing seasons make
this expense double that of the Kansas
farmer. Kansas mild winters are fav-
orable to the most profitable production
of milk and her alfalfa, at home wher-
ever planted, provides the cheapest and
best milk producing hay on earth. The
Kansas farmers ability to produce al
falfa is unlimited and with all the alfalfa
he can use is enabled to produce butter
fully 30 per cent cheaper than IN states
where red clover is depended upon. With
a COW bred for milk making and alfalfa
for feed and the exercise of the same de
gree Of intelligence in handling as is ex-
ercised in the older dairy states Kansas
viii Guido the world as an economical
producer Of butter and cheese.
Where the creamery industry in Kan
sas has reached the highest development
there are the most happy and prosperous
homes. The milk check reaching the
home each month provides the necessi-
ties and an occasional luxury for the
household. The milk check pays the
grocery and dry goods bills, leaving the
proceeds from the hogs and calves and
houses and add now and then a quarter
section to the homestead. / know
Kansas man who bought a half section
of land with milk checks to the value of
1920. He had never cashed his checks
but held them until he could make the
purchase.
@In the promotion of the dairy indus
try 10 Kansas no Institution has had
more influence than the Continental
Creamery company whose general Of
fees and factory are located IN Topeka.
For the year which has just closed the
Continental Creamery produced more
than eight million pounds of butter and
one million of cheese. This product Is
almost entirely that of Kansas, although
points in Colorado, Nebraska and Okla
homa have contributed to the aggregate.
This creamery is in the advance guard
of progress. Its methods are up-to- date
in every particular, in recognition of
which the worlds greatest butter market
have given the Topeka product the
highest prices.
an the promotion of the skimming
station idea the Continental Creamery
is missionary. The success of the
skimming station means more to the
promotion of the creamery industry than
does any other thing except the farmers
education. Swimming stations are plants
at which the farmers milk is received
and the cream separated therefrom.
These stations are successfully and pro-
fitably operated where creameries max
ing butter would fail. The Swimming
station provides a daily cash market for
milk where under other conditions there
sould be no market except the grocery
store where the varied grades of butter
are sometimes traded for sugar and
calico.
"Cream from skimming stations is
shipped to Topeka from distances ex-
ceeding 800 miles. To receive this cream
in condition for the finest butter is pos
sible only by another method employed
by the Continental Creamery company
in advance of all other creameries and
that is known as pasteurization.- This
process is practiced at each of its 200
stations, This method is the heating of
cream to 80 degrees and rapidly cool
ing to a low temperature. The heating
destroys all injurious bacteria and after
cooling the cream begins its long Jour
ney TO Topeka II perfect condition for
producing butter OF line flavor and su-
perior keeping quality. Danish butter
which is reported as the finest the world
affords Is produced by pasteurization
which IN that country Is compulsory
and made 50 by the government. The
Topeka pasteUrized product on the Eng
Gsh market meet with most flatterinr
sales compared with the Danish good 5.
Tnneka ships weekly to I.ondnn with in