The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-13
UTAH BUTTER HAS
A COAST DEMAND
Faust Creamery Refuses Order
For Two Carloads.
CAN'T SUPPLY LOCAL TRADE
HAND SEPARATOR SUPPLANT-
ING OLD SKINNER.

The Faust Creamery & Supply COM
pany has been compelled to reject an
order for two carloads Of butter for
san Francisco. Cab, because. as Henry
J. Faust jr president and manager OF
the company said last evening. I'VE
are utterly unable to supply our local
trade"
President Faust said last evening
that the daily butter consumption or
salt Lake City is. on an average. 10000
POUNDS THAT represents the butter fat
from $4,000 gallons Of milk. The Faust
creamery company supplies the local
trade with about 3,0Ge pounds of but
Ter day IT represents the employ
ment of thirty hands Three years
ago in this state the manufacture Of
1000 pounds OF butter a day would
nave nscessita ted the employment or
$50 men.
The change is due to the invention
ana putting into practical use OF the
mana separator. by It's use the farmer
is not compelled to ship his milk 90 the
creamery or the sEiInming plant but
separates at home the butter fat from
the milk. To is only the butter fat. OF
cream, that the progressive farmer or
today ships to the creamery. The milk.
after the fat has been separated. IFS
kept at home and used to a good ad
vantage i'm the way of fattening pigs
and other farm animals.
Kills Swimming Industry.
The growing use of the hand serar-
atOr Is going to prove the death knell
on the Old-tashiCned skimming station,
IL is stated. There are many OF them
in Utah. representing an investment of
about S25O,CO0. The next year or 50
VIII see them an institution Of the
past The money invested will have
been lost unless the profits since the
erection of the various stations have,
IN the meantime. paid the cost Of con-
structiOn.
Three years ago. under the old sys-
tenn, it would have taken thirty cream
cries. President Faust says. to have
made the butter which his concern now
turns out Today one wagon on one Of
ITS cream routes gathers butter fat
from fifty to seventy-fve dairies Three
years ago one wagon could not have
hauled one-fifth of the milk TO the
creamery that that amount of butter
tar represents. And that is due to the
hand separator. The farmer forces the
Eutter fat from the milk. places the
fat into can and keeps the milk at
home. Heretofore the milk had to be
hauled to the creamery and then
brought back to the farm for local
use. Now a route wagon calls every
day for the butter fat.
Profits For the Farmer.
The price the farmer receives for his
butter fat is considerably more than
the average person believes The
Faust company pays 1 cent per pound
less for butter fat than the actual but
ter sells for on the market When but
ter sells Tor 30 cents Pc pound the
farmer gets % cents for his fat In
the winter, when butter sells for 20
and As cents, he gets 80 and A cents
per pound.
The hand sepaTators are growing In
favor each year in Utah. Where they
are once used, President Faust says,
they are seldom if ever abandoned.
Their universal usage is shown by the
fact that the Faust company receives /
its cream from radius Of $50 miles 20
the north of salt Lake city and 200
miles 20 the south. Throughout the
section they are used night and morn
ing by the progressive farmer. who IS
beginning to realize that the profits
from a good dairy are more than equal
to those to be derived from a well taken
care of and properly irrigated farm.