The Jasper news., 1903-07-23
CREAMERIES IN BARTON.
PLAN ON FOOT TO ESTABLISH A
NUnBER IN THE COUNTY.
The First One VIII Probably be Lo.
Gated at Oakton, Northwest
Of this City.

Judging from the following article
from the Lamar Democrat a
creamery will soon be located at Oakton
northwest Of this city, aud eventually
Barton County is to be dotted over with
similar Institutions:
What gives promise OF being the eat
est boon to the farmers OF Barton county
is now being discussed aud agitated. 1t
is nothing more nor less than the
creamery enterprise, The matter has
been talked for several weeks aud the
initial steps were taking at Oakton,
! Wednesday, the 18th, to put into definite
form and practice some Of the ideas
which have been advanced concerning
1.-THE enterprise. The Creamery business
is in itself very profitable business. In
Kansas and Nebraska, whore pasture
lands aud feed stufTs are no more plenti
fol than here, the farmers consider the
c. ,mery business leading money
maker. August Bonwart, who lives
I southwest OF Lamar, has mad experience
| in the business and he says he knows it
to be moneyImakiug enterprise. The
average COW can be made to earn from
$40 to $50 per year, while the better
milchers will yield from $50 to 500 per
year, And it DOES not interfere in the
] at with the farmers regular routine
OF work. With 10 of these.creameries
operating in Barton county, the farmers
could realize handsomely from the dairy
PRODUCTS, it would be an incentive 10
keep better mich cows and to economize
on rough feed stufrs.
The meeting at Oaktou, Wednesday
evening, resulted in the organization of
a company to promote the enterprise.
Thus Oakton will he the first creamery
stati in the county. The meeting was
to have been held at Oakten in the
afternoon. L. w. Harkless went out
with X, @. Roach, OF Hutchinson, Kan
sas, and George White, of Kansas City,
to meet the farmers interested in
the new enterprise The attendance
was small, many farmers. being busy in
their hay fields, aud Mr.. Roach, who
was to deliver an, address on the subject
declined TO do go before so small a crowd.
He accordingly suggested that those
present delegate themselves TO 90 out in
various directions aud get good even
log audience at eight o'clock.
At eight o'clock there was large as
scmblage Of people at the Oakton school
house to hear and 10 talk about the
matter. Mr. Roach lectured for over an
hour discussing the dairying BUSINESS
from scientific standpoint. He is
learned about such. things and was able
to give much information 90 the subject.
! file talked at length about the selection
of good COWS, lie classified cows into
three groups: milcn cows, beef cows and
debt contractors. Mr. Roach recommen-
ded that the debt contractor be knocked
| in the bead, If SHE couldn't be sold or
given away. She was the brute that
could neither be fed to give milk nor
fatten for beef. Mr. Roach described
the process of saving the fat out Of the
milk in very interesting add ess.
Science had taught that it WAS possible
to get fully ninotyeight percent Of the
fat out Of the milk; this renders the
creamery business profitable, for the fat
is valuable. lie declared lit was an
erroneous notion that the calf would be
starved to death il it be fed nothing but
SKINNED milk, or milk that had been