The Press., 1903-11-05
HOME NEWS.
srAEFoRp SPRINGS.

HOME NEWS.
STAFFORD SPRINGS.
Mrs. S. F. Maine of South Coventry
has been visiting friends in town.
Six united with the Congregations
church last Sunday morning by letter
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Chaffee of New
London were at the Springs House
over Sunday.
R. H. Worden, clerk in W. G. Ellis
store, has moved into the south tene.
ment over The Press office.
The glee club and the physical cul.
ture class of the Girls club will meet
at the library building Friday even.
ing, at 7.30.
At the regular communication of
Ionic lodge, +. & A. M, next Tues
day evening, the work will be the f.
G. degree. Wolcott lodge has been
invited to attend.
A party of about 90 young people
gave Prof. and Mrs. Z. A. Maynard a
surprise visit Saturday evening and
celebrated Halloween in an appropri-
ate manner. Refreshments were serv-
ed and variety of games played.
The Christian Endeavor society of
the Congregational church has elected
the following officers: President,
Charles +. Chandler; vice-president,
Miss Ethel Rollinson; secretary and
treasurer. Miss Mabel q. Pease; pray
er meeting committee. Maurice De-
mond. Miss Harriet q. Werner, Miss
Mabelle Meyers; executive committee.
b. p. Cooley. Miss Jennie HopkinSon,
Miss Christine +. Chapman; lookout
committee. @. II. Moore. Miss Lavilla
Burr. Miss Margaret f. Cooley.
tCommunicated.)
Frequently comment is made upon
the fact that several creameries can
vass the town of Stafford in search of
cream. The fact that so much is ex-
ported from town is not the only COM
ment; the distance the cream is trans
ported is magnified, and the quantity
transported from ten to twelve miles
is dwelt upon as something of all
event. Perhaps it never occurs to
the minds considering this matter that
all the cream in Tolland county and
the adjoining county of Hampden,
just over the line in Massachusetts,,
would not supply enough to start the
works in one of the greatest of cream
cries in one of the prairie states. 1t
may surprise some to learn that the
largest creamery in the world is To-
Gated at Lincoln, Nebraska. This
creamery started six years ago, and
during the month of July this year
made an average of forty-two thou
sand pounds of butter each day. It's
churns run night and day, with extra
shifts of men. 1t IS expecKed that
this creamery will make seven million
pounds of butter this year. The cream
for this vast product is drawn from a
wide territory. Some of it is brought
over four hundred and fifty miles
almost as far as from Buffalo to Stat
ford. During June and July this
creamery received an average of eigh-
teen hundred cans of cream daily.
Each can weighed So pounds. Within
a few miles of Lincoln the creamery
has Is skimming stations, where the
milk is brought and SKINNED and the
milk afterwards sold. In addition to
these skimming stations, owned by
the Beatrice Creamery company, they
have put out among the farmers over
4, 600 separators. The butter is sold
principally south and west. The de-
mand increases constantly and the
company contemplates erecting two
branch creameries, one in the western
border of Nebraska and the other in
Denver. Nebraska is a natural graz
ing country, and when drouth affects
the surface irrigation is resorted to to
restore the growth of feed stuff. Good
dairymen are wanted, and find profit
able employment at the start. In one
county, with less than 1, 800 inhabi-
tants, over $50, 900 will be distributed
for cream during the present year.
Nebraska people are just waking up
to the value and Importance of milch
cow as a manufacturing investment.
While New England farmers, with
markets right at their doors, are sit
ting down wearied, tired, almost ex-
hausted over the great task of caring
for six or seven COWS, and the trans
portation of cream eight or ten miles,
hust1ing men of the west are contem-
plating pushing their activities to the
extent of seeking part of the trade
in the rich fields of population here
in the east. A little awakening here
in Stafford, scrubbing up of the old
fields, enriching the ones now in use,
the herd, multiplying it by
six or seven, and establishing cream
cry in town, would show results in
way of profits beyond what can be ac-
their heavy cost for transportation.
There is no reason why Stafford should
not profitably maintain four or five
Thousand cows, and with its natural
tributaries, Wellington, Westford,
Union, Tolland, Somers, and Wales
and Monson from over the line in
Massachusetts, the number of cows
could be doubled with ease. The
market for feed stuffs would be a val
liable one, the Improvement in the
farms would be marked, the grade of
stock developed to wonderful de-
gree, and business all around would
feel an impetus. With these condi-
tions prevailing a shutdown of the
mills would not affect the town to the
degree it does under the present state
of the farming industry of the region.