Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-09
Tho Creamery Promoter.


Grating all thru the northwest and has
the dairy officials after him all along
the line Commissioners Kaufman of
North Dakota, has been warning the
people Of that state against taking up
With such projects without knowing
well enough what they are about. Now
the Montana Experiemnt Station comes
along with similar warning as fol-
lows
I'm good many localities in Mon
tana the farmers are becoming interest
ed in the starting of creamerles ana
cheese factories, and though the dairy
business is not one OF the best paying
branches of the farm, yet In Montana
branches Of the farm, yet the Montana
experiment Station wishes to throw
out a few words of warning along this
line:
Very frequently agents claiming to
represent creamery supply houses oHer
10 work up a creamery company IN the
neighborhood. solicit stock, get up the
articles of incorporation. build the
creamery and equip 1t, turning IT over
10 the association of farmers at given
price. Now, while we do not wish 10
saw that all such men are sWlndiers
ret we do advise the farmers TO look
rery closely into such proposals
"rhis is the very rock upon which
most of the creameries that have tailed
have split. The agricultural and dairy
5apers have for years been teemlng
18th exposures of swindles Of this
sind. but every year seems to lind a
tew crop of people ready to bite on
.uch schemes, and the consequence is.
he country Is dotted with expensive
worthless creameries standing idle.
I'm localities where farmers feel tfni
creamery would be paying business
t might be well to investigate and 81
ONE reliable information regarding IN
,uilding of such plants. instead OF pay
ng exhorbitant prices for plant an
equipment, which you can just as eas
lily build yourselves for much lees!
money.
"The Montana Experiment Statio,3
has a bulletin for free distribution e.
he farmers Of the state, giving exac
plans and specifications for the cree
sion of a model, up-to-date plant TO-
.ither cheese or butter, and also lis'
Of every article of machinery require
In a thoroughly equipped creamery
md cheese factory.
A thoroughly modern equlppe'
creamery, 62x24 feet, with a 12-foot
ceiling, to handle the milk from 500 to
/ 900 cows, can be had for $4,000. The
building will cost about $4,000.
cheese factory 2Ox44 feet, with boiler
room 12x2O feet can be built and prop
erly equipped for $4,000. The building
costing $1,000 and the machinery prop
erly installed, costing $1,000.
"The experiment station is always
willing to assist, when they can, any
locality, thinking Of building either
creamery or cheese factory. We are
very anxious to see the dairy Industry
of the state start along right lines, and
do not wish to see it. at this time
when it Is practically beginning, re-
ceive backward set, from which IT
| will take years to recover, and that
backward set caused by agents getting
the farmers to pay exhorbitant prices
for plants that can be built for a great
deal less money"
Wintering Idle Horses.
The season Of the year Is at hand
when q large number OF horses in the
aggregate In every state will be Idle
owing to the fact that there is no work
f,,. them tod do. These horses must be
fed and as the prices of nearly all kinds
of food are getting higher 1t is a mat
tar Of considerable moment to the
"a nn,er as to how cheaply such horses
con be fed during the winter without
,,,,,,airing their usefulness for work
the following summer. This question
has recently been discussed in the
p,,,.ao New Yorker. The cost of win
terins per month has been variously
stated at So to $10 at $40 and at
s155 The best ration recommended
consisted of two quarts of bran per
DIV six ears Of soft corn and the OPP
portunity to run to shredded corn
stalks.
In deciding this question so many
f,otors have to be considered that 1t
would be simply impossible to fix up
IN any sum that would justly repre-
cont the cost Of wintering such ami
mails that would be applicable to ev-
arv mart of the country. Evidently the
cost in some states, as New England,
for instance, would be probably twice
': TWELVE MILLION PACI