Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-07-20
CREAMERY IS
A BIG SUCCESS
Broadwater County Farmers and Mer'
chants Are Well Satisfied With
Their New investment.
COWS PAY SO A MONTH IN MILK
Creamery Started Up July First and
Even First Results Are Most Graf
ifying-Perhaps Another.

The people OF townsend seem 10
be proud of their new creamery.
which is said to he the most modern
institution Of its kind in the north.
west.
For a long time The people Of
Broadwater county have wanted a
creamery" said a Townsend man 10
The Record, but until II. 4. Hatha
way. of the Hastings Industrial Co..
of Chicago. came along, nothing was
done. But when he appeared upon
the scene last spring the project At
once took shape and the result is
nearly all that could Ice desired. The
creamery has been established at a
cost of s5.5Oo and is now running in
fine shape"
Continuing The Townsend man said
the company completed its work in
June and invited a committee of 10.
cal stockholders to examine both
building and machinery. with a view
TO its acceptance or rejection. After
a thorough examination of the build
ing and machinery the committee re.
ported that everything was done &C.
cording to cont act and the creamery
was accepted.
Increasing the Output.
THE plant has a capacity equal to
the milk from one thousand cows per
day." said the Townsend man. The
milk vats hold 500 gallons and the
churn 300 gallons. The creamery
started up in earnest about July |,
with only $50 pounds OF milk, but in
less than a week this amount had in.
creased to $500 pounds a day from
present indications the amount OF
milk turned in will reach 1000 to s.,
900 pounds daily by August |. Scores
of ranchmen say they will furnish
milk just as soon as they get through
haying and %lrrigating.
Manager B. +. Matthews, who has
charge of the creamery, is arranging
for routes on crow creek and al Win
ston and as o as arrangements can
be completed separators will be put NJ
al some of the most promising points
"A. ]. Shnles. of Michigan, is the
buttermaker and he turns out as fine
a product as ever adorned a Montana
table. The ~Broadwate. Creamery Co
makes no process butter.
Looks Like Business.
1T looks more like business To see
a long line Of teams coming 10 town
every morning loaded down with good
rich milk and returning a little later
laden with skinned milk for the
calves, hogs and chickens. II will
look still more like business at the
end of each month when the checks
begin to come in and start out or
their tour of the county.
-Four per cent of butter fat Is con
sidered very profitable but a large
number of our cows went about ; pei
cent. Even the commonest kind oi
old 'bronchos' went 32 to 1 per cent
The cows showing the highest test
were fed on alfalfa while most of the
bronchos ranged on cactus with a liz
tie rosebuds and soap weed for dcS
sert. OFT Tinsley. manager for III,
Cans e. Klein ranch. brought the frs
batch Of milk and was hOnored by re
ceiving the highest rating in tht
tests.
zone man. ". G.. Boone. milks iy'
cows that average So each per montl
in milk.
"Our people are feeling enthusiast
tic over the creamery. Broadwater |
an ideal county Tor dairying and stool
feeding. Nestled down snugly he
tween two high ranges of mountain
the severe storms that sweep owe
some of the o exposed cOuntie
mass harmlessiy over our heads. Dun
ing winter the n~eighboring mountain
are covered with snow. but the va
leys are bare almost the whole yeaI
For this reason and from the fact tina
fine hay can be obtained so chea
fockmasters are looking toward thi
county as the best feeding ground !
the state.
1.-THE creamery is going 10 he tn
means of solving the cash marke
problem. The success of the cream
cry will encourage other enterprises
1.-THE stockholders of the creamer
met last week and elected a boar
of directors, all up-to-date ranchmer
as follows:
]. w. Munden, II. Raymond, w. c
Whaley, NJ. Gurnett and W. S
Thompson. b. +. Matthews was sc
lected as manager
Another creamery may be started