The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-01-01
e7ATE,s CREAMERY INDUSTRY.
fRv Commissioner McDonald.)

OAK and the amount of butter manu-
Sao+nred was 5.SS3,251 pounds. The
lumber of creameries operating in the
s+ate during the year 1903 is All and
tbe amount of butter manufactured
was 697O.992 pounds, showing an in
crease of 1,0S7,741 pounds. The num-
her of cheese factories operating DUR
ing the year of 1902 was forty-one and
the amount of cheese manufactured
was 1.12S,735. The number of such
factories in the state during the year
of 1903 is twenty-four and the amount
of cheese manufactured is 1,3l5,55l
showing the increase for the year OF
1866 pounds.
Some information is necessary in re-
gard to the number of creameries in
the state. A creamery is place where
a separator is used and butter is man.
ufactured by the latest scientific meth
DDS. This permits any dairyman to
secure the state brand and have his
butter marked Washington Creamery
Butter, providing his butter is man
ufactured according to the definition
of a creamery. There are 4010 individ-
nal creameries, thirteen stock COM
panies, thirty-three firms and fifteen
cooperative. This definition of a
creamery has had the effect of stimu-
lating the industry by encouraging
the farmers to buy the latest improved
apparatus and adopting the latest
methods of manufacturing. This def
milton also accounts for the large in
crease in the number of creamer1es.
King county manufactured the lar
gest amount of butter, the reason for 1t
oit ri nc
cream in all the tributary counties
and receive large amount from those
counties. My opinion is that King
county produced less butter this year
than in any other year. The condens-
er at Kent absorbed large amount OF
milk, which was formerly converted
into butter. Lewis county shows
falling off, owing to the fact that con-
denser was built and operated at Che
halls during the last year. The other
counties show a healthy growth. The
west side is manifestly destined to be
the greatest dairy section, owing to the
fact that the soil and climate are bet
ter adapted to the production OF milk
than to the production of cereals.
l prepared bill to be presented at
the last legislature, which had the
endorsement of the Dairymen's asso-
citation, providing for a dairy instruc-
tor, which bill was not introduced for
the reason that the legislators who
were interested in agriculture did not
think the revenue of the state justified
the additional expense. This same
bill will be presented at the next leg
islature
The creamery product is not OF as
high quality since the advent Of
the hand separator, and if a uniform
high grade of butter is to be produced,
it can only be done by the method
contemplated in the bill. This method
is in operation in Minnesota and Iowa.
Some one must have the authority of
law to compel cleanliness of dairy
barns and utensils; to instruct the
dairymen how to care for their cream
and manufacture butter The law
should provide that the duties of the
instructor should be to inspect cream
cries and testing apparatus, and re-
turn cream which was unfit for use
This cannot be done by the creamery
men, as the party will find some one
who will receive his cream, but If
his cream was condemned by the in
structor, he could not sell it to any