The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-07-16
WARNING FROM KAUPIAN.
State Dairy csmmissisasr Warns tho
Creamery Interests against esiRs
.::.:.s Ahead To- Fast.

agricultural college ana state oary
commissioner, gives some good sd-
vice to localities thinking Of start
ing creameries. He fears the bus
iness is in danger. Of being over
I done, and says:z:.: Y.
"The leading authorities agree
that the farmer cannot afford to
pay more than four cents for man
featuring a. pound Of butter. AL
study the creamery reports which
have been received at this Office the
past two years, I find that q cream
cry must produce not less than
10000 pounds of butter per year or
twill cost more than four cents to
manufacture each pound, and, that
in creamery. manufacturing. but
10000 to 10000 pounds during the
the year, the cost of manufacture
is nearly six cents per pound. A
study Of. the creamery reports also
shows that to: manufacture 10000
pounds Of butter in a year the
creamery: should have the patrol.;
age. of:not less than 400 cows, not
100 COWS the territory embraced
by the creamery, but 400 cows that
will be- milEedd> cd and given the best
possible care BY the farmers. Too
often the assessors. books are con-
suited and 500 q 600 COWS are dis
covered ia txoor three townships
that would bea.oontiiguous: TO the
creamery; when. s. . . careful cam
.yass Of. the territory. was made.it is
quite possible that q Pattahage, Of
only 200 or 300 would be secured.
T a butter, makers sala1yis Just 20
great il { s small creamery as in a
large one and outside of the cost
|hscessaty~tn tnAsalt, color. and pack
/ the butter, ,the expense Of operating
a small factory is nearly as great
a. to oparate, large, factory. 70
make good = deficiency caused BY
a small number of COWS contiguous
to a creamery, there is hardly a fac
tory east of the Missouri river but
what is receiving cream by rail.
Every new creamery built from
now on is going to reduce the make
of. those already established, thus
endangering the success of the old
plants as we'll as the new ones.
With our large farms and scattered
population, I don't believe there
are twenty creameries in the state
that would be a success when oper-
ated on the whole milk system.
With the hand separator, the cream
can be gathered from long dis
tances as we'll as shipped from
points remote from the creamery.
With the number Of factories now
in operation, it is possible for nearly
everyone who desires to engage in
dairying to patronize some cream
cry. ID 80
North Dakota has as many cream.
cries in proportion to the number
of people and number of COWS as
either Iowa or Minnesota and it is
surely time to stop and think be-
fore putting up any more plants.
Many Of the Iowa and Minnesota
creameries are able to manufacture
butter at a cost of 2 to q cents per
pound. So, with all our advantages
of cheap lands and low cost of milk
production, we are at a disadvant-
age in the production Of creamery
butter on account of the increased
cost of manufacture: and probably
poorer quality Of butter. caused
by the fact that our farmers are
new to dairying and do not thor
oughly understand the care of milk
and cream before delivery to factory
q
The last census shows that sthe
number of fspersons per family lnthe
EDaaited II State !is a, fsaa,s sepd y !. seven :
tenths, which confirms the old inle
Of estimating five persons to the
family. but this will vary greatly