The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-17
BUTTER IN KANSAS.
Secretary Coburn Issues a Bulletin
About 1t.

Secretary Coburn of the state board
Of agriculture, has given out a bulle-
Tin concerning the butter industry in
kansas, in which he shows how the
operation of creameries has benefited
the farmers of Kansas. He says:
In Kansas, before the advent of the
cream separator and the installation
of the modern methods of butter MAX
Ang in creamerieS the dairy industry
was not occupying its proper place
among the industries of the state The
cream separator and creamery have
performed wonders as correctives, yet
there is need of a further progress be-
fore it reaches its rightful position.
In too many instances the man be-
hind the cow careless or ignorant OF
his own best interests, forms his dairy
herd from cows bred away from dairy
lines, gives them insufficient care and
food, and vainly awaits the prosperity
that never comes The COW is ever will
ing to do her full share, but to secure
profitable results the man behind
must give the animal good food and in
telligent attention He must not eA-
pect per cent milk from 2 per cent
animal.
The A creameries in the state give a
total butter product for the year end
ing March 1, 1904, of 1l,0OS,16O pounds.
Those producing 100000 pounds, or
over, in the order of their rank are as
follows:
Company-Location. Pounds
The Continental Creamery Co.. To ooo oOo
ERe Belle Springs Creamery Co, a,o ooo
rhe H SHADY Grove Creamery Co. 49, 40
The aut Merritt Creamery Co. Great
The sS schrock Bros creamery Co, =. %
The noq Earned Creamery Co. Larned 1900
ita Wicni'@ ote'.eis - IN ooooo
ton Hes!on Cre1i..e.S ~. 80 $500
13 91,' =, + Al i+ 49, $4,000
The Heller Creamery Co. Heller. SOS'S5l
The total butter product from the
617,254 Kansas COWS in 1895 was 3D.
16422O pounds, of which 90.6 per cent
or %, 237 967 pounds was made in fam
lilies and "a per cent or z,916,25S
pounds by creameries.
In 1904 the total butter produced
from the 792, 712 COWS was AZ, So, $50
pounds. of which 6O.3 per cent or 25,-
s54,2O6 pounds was made in families
and 39.7 per cent or 17,OOS,16O pounds
ing the ten-year period ending with
1904 the number of mich cows in
creased about 81 per cent; the butter
made in creameries increasing 521 per
cent, and that made in families de-
creased "a per cent
1t is stated by parties who have for
many years been in close touch with
butter as a commercial product that
less than 25 per cent of family or
country-made butter is of a really
merchantable quality and that this %
per cent commands an average price
of Is cents per pound; also that the
remaining rs per cent, reaching the
hands of the reluctant country mer-
chants, finally finds its way to some
renovating esta blishment, at to
cents per pound. The reason for this
is apparent. The large majority of
country butter-makers have but in
different facilities for cooling and car
ing for the milk in the first place. and
in the second they still use the an
cient setting" and ladle skimming
method of cream separation. This
necessity causes considera BILE loss of
the butter element of the milk and in
spite of the butter maker too often
results in an undesirable and almost
unstable product from the remainder.
Out of 100 pounds of milk testing
per cent of butterfat the average cOun-
try butter maker without a standard
separator would obtain not more than
"a pounds of butter, worth not to ex
coed 10 cents per pound, or 25 cents
for 100 pounds of milk and the back
breaking labor.
From the best information obtainable
the prices paid for milk at skimming
stations range from 20 cents to 81 per
100 pounds. according to test. In 1904
the Kansas butter made in families
was 1854, POS pounds. 1t is shown that
1T takes at least 29 pounds of per cent
milk to enable the average country
maker to produce one pound of butter
Therefore the milk required for the
country made butter of 1904 would be
74e,271,974 pounds, and this at rs cents
per hundred pounds would equal S.
623,290. as against 81 1903, 034. the value
of 1854, 2O6 pounds of butter at the
high average price of 16 % cents per
pound-a difference against the butter
made in families of S1,314, 256 or 3O5
per cent.
Is BUYING BY TEST.