The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-20
SMALL CHEESE FACTORY
GREAT INSTITUTION FOR FARMERS,
SAYS DAIRY COMMISSIONER
Big Returns for Money Invested
by Farmers Who Cannot
Organize Cream
cries.

The last issue of the New York Produce
Review attempts to criticise Dairy Com
miss ioner Mcconnell in this fashion:
Dairy Commissioner Mcconnell is cred
tied with having said:
"A small cheese factory costing about $500
would proHtably handle all the product
In the districts where there are few cows,
ana the farmers would save about one
na4r en- the sale Of the milk and cream
from the herds"
1t is to be regretted that in his anxiety
10 foster the cheese industry in his state
Mr. mcconnell should encourage the
building OF such factories which may be
put up and equipped for $500
II 1t is in order to secure co-onerative
carrying in the districts with too small
cow population to start separator
creamery, Why not take a hint from the
cugoear long distance hand separator
system, the creamery trust, as it is call
cd In Minnesota, and encourage co-opera-
tive churn stations for hand separator
cream in such localities
IN the interest of good cheesemaking
we must protest, against encouraging the
Dulldlng of anything but sanitary cheese
factories with curing rooms in which the
temperature may be regulated and kept
from rising above IS degrees and
such factories can hardly be built fer.
less than double the amount mentioned
IN the above clipping.
Mr. Mcconnell said yesterday:
1T will be particularly noticed that in
1
munities where there were few cows In
many localities, where there are less
than 200 cows, 1t is impossible to start
good creamery. That is no reason why
the material at hand should not be put
to the best possible use. The small cheese
factory seems to me to be one of the
best ways out Of the dilemma, I do not
mean to say that $500 will build the best
or most desirable kind of g. cheese fac
IN 7 Il Of nh
in this state costing between $500 and
500 which are making good money for
the farmers, more than they could make
in any other way with their small herds
OF cows. / have plans of several of
these factories, and while / would not
call them ideal institutions I do know
that they are proving worth while to the
farmer, and l do know that as the in
crease in usefulness and the industry de-
velops they will be Enlarged and i'm
proved.
Speaking Of the cost of factories and
creameries, 1 want to say that the esti-
mated cost is toos often made by cream
cry promoters, who go into communities
and, without any money of their own
get the farmers to put in twice as much
as is needed to build first-class institu-
ton. They start creameries off in debt
unnecessarily, have elaborate machinery
introduced costing two prices, and the
result is that the farmers labor under
a handicap that they need not shoulder if
they build their own creameries without
the assistance Of these interested parties.
do not approve of building poorly equip
ped creameries or cheese factories. I do
believe, however, that a creamery or
cheese factory Of some kind, providing it
is not wholly inadequate Is better than
none at all. These small institutions in
this state are as sanitary as the large
ones, and they pay the farmer as well in
proportion to what he has invested