The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-11
The MILK CHECK.
How 1t Pays the Grocery and
Dry Goods Bills.
Kansas Man Whose Dairy
Bought a Half Section.
OVER 10000 900 POUNDS
Valued at Nearly Seven Million
Dollars
To n Rn%knv- ~
OVER $4,000, 900 POUNDS
Is Annual Butter Product of
the State of Kansas.

| Since 1885 the dairy products of the
state have made a phenomenal record.
Speaking along this line w. F. Jensen.
vice president of the Continental
Creamery 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
million pounds, zone and one-half mil
lions being cheese and the forty-two
millions being butter. In value Kansas
| butter product is worth nearly seven
millions and her cheese worth one-quar-
ter million. Engaged in this manufac-
ture are seventy-fve creameries sup
piled with cream from milk received at
500 skimming stations, and on whose
monthly pay rolls are $4,000 Kansas
farmers. Compared with Minnesota
and Wisconsin the showing made by
Kansas is not large but the possibilities
of the Sunf1ower state bid fair to COM
pei her northern neighbors to take a
seat in the rear sometime within the
next twenty-five years. Shelter and
feed are the two items of heaviest ex-
pense 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 favorable to the most profit
able production of milk and her alfalfa,
at home wherever planted, provides the
cheapest and best milk producing hay
on earth. The Kansas farmers ability
to produce alfalfa is unlimited and with
all the alfalfa he can use is enabled to
produce butter fully so per cent cheaper
than in states where red clover is de-
pended upon. With a COW bred for
milk-mak king and alfalfa for feed and
the exercise of the same degree of in
telligence in handling as is exercised in
the older dairy states Kansas will out
do the world as an economical producer
of butter and cheese.
Where the creamery industry in
Kansas has reached the highest develop
ment there are the most happy and
prosperous homes. The milk check
reaching the home each month pro-
Vides the necessities 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 wheat to build red
barns and white houses and add now
and then a quarter section to the home
stead. I know a Kansas man who
bought a half section of land with milk
checks to the value of So, 200 He had
never cashed his checks but held them
until he could make the purchase.
In the promotion of the dairy indus
try in 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. al
thought points in Colorado, Nebraska
and Oklahoma have contributed to the
aggregate. This creamery is in the adj
vance guard of progress. Its methods
are up-to-date in every particular, in
recognition of which the worlds great
est butter market have given the To-
peka product the highest prices.
In the promotion of the skimming
station idea the Continental Creamery
is a missionary. The success of the
cLxi the
promotion of the creamery industry
than does any other one thing except
the farmers education. Swimming sta
lions are plants at which the FARMER
milk is received and the cream separa-
ted therefrom. These stations are sue
cessfully and profitably operated where
creameries making butter would fail.
The Swimming station provides a daily
cash market for milk where under 9TH
er conditions there could 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 300 miles. To receive this G cam
sible only by another method employed
by the Continental Creamery company
in advance of all other creamer1es and
that is known as paSteurizaton. rms
process is practiced at each of its 200
stations. This method is the heating of
cream to $50 degrees and rapidly cool
ing to a low temperature. Inc nesting
destroys all injurious bacteria and after
cooling the cream begins its long jour-
ney to Topeka in perfect condition for
producing butter Of fine flavor and su-
perior keeping quality. Danish butter
which is reported as the finest the
world affords is produced by pasteur1-
cation which in that country is compul-
sorry and made so by the government
The Topeka pasteurized product on the
English market meet with most hatter-
ing sales compared with the Danish
goods Topeka ships weekly to London
with increasing favor and it is assured
that Kansas butter may some day oc-
cupy an exalted position in that mar