The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-06-29
there IS MONEY
IN CREAMERIES
COOPERATIVE PLAN IS THE BEST
System in Vogue at Elgin Explained -
Profits Being Made in Dairy
Business.

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Profits Being Made in Dairy
Business.
ii. NJ, Abbott, who is corresponding
with the Hastings Industrial Co., of
Chicago, relative to the establishment
of a creamery here, handed the Gla-
cier the following circular explaining
the CO. Operative dairy system in vogue
in many communities throughout the
United States:
What They Are.
Cooperative Factories are owned
and controlled by farmers who furnish
the milk.
From twenty to forty farmers and
business men Of the town each owning
from 500 to $500 of the stock, com
bine to own faCtry and run it on
the principle of II akiug COWS pay as
much as possible,
Private OF individual factories are
run on the opposite principle, viz.
Big profits for tie factory, and OBJ
tanning their milk from the farmers
as ChCaply Hs possible. Patrons of
CO-Operatiye factories realize from SS
to Sl2 rer COW more than do the pat
ronS of private CIeameries.
Row They Are Run.
Each patrons milk is delivered in
| his own can or cans. and is separately
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Milk Tester, to determine the guam
lity Of butter that it contains.
The cream is Immediately separated
rom the milk by running the whole
milk through machine called "Cen-
'rifugal Separator. The sweet skim
/ ailk is returned at once to the patron
/ free of charge.
/ The cream is made up into Fancy
/ Elgin butter and sold by the manager
of the factory at the highest market
price, and often above the quoted
market prices.
! At the end of each month full set
| tlement is made with the patrons.
From to cents per pound of butter
made is taken out to pay the expense
of making, packing, selling and ship
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Of the factory; the balance of the
money is divided among the patrons
in proportion to the amount of butter
contained in each ones milk.
Advantages.
|. They are convenient. Milk can
be delivered at any time between 6
aud 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to suit
4 ba nnnuantnnpn of natRnnu In,
weather, anG every other day In cold
weather. Hence milk can be hauled six
miles to a butter factory as convent
emily as three miles to a cheese fac
tory or one mile to a depot for ship
ment. No ice is required; as it mat
ters not how warm the milk is deliv-
cred as long as it Is not sour.
,. They will relieve your wives and
families of nearly one e-half of their
household labors by taking the care
of milk and the drudgery of butter
making entirely out of the house.
3, They bring cash every month,
supplying the farmer with ready
money fo his immediate wants, keep
ing HIM on "pay as you go" basis,
teaching him the true road to indie
pendeuce and afiluence, and besides
the ready money he has produced his
own fertilizer, the best for his land
and is growing rich in two-fold way.
4. Take home made butter from
fifty different farms and you will have
fifty different kinds. If made in a fac
tory, uniform color. sailing and pack
ing, and will bring much better
price,
5. Butter factories get the farmer
into dairying, which practically takes
no fertility from the farm, but will al
ways improve it.
g. There is nething produced ON
the farm that sells for more per pound
than butter.
7. there is no product that can he
gotten to market as cheaply as butter.
s. If your COWS give rich milk the
Babcock test shows it and you are
paid for rich milk.
9. BY the separator process prac-
tiCaIly all the cream is taken from the
III ilk, and all the butter obtained from
the cream, by which from 10 to % per
cent more pounds of butter are OBJ
tanned, which sells in the market or a
much higher price than does farmers
butter.
10. Elgin butter is a staple article.
Always commanding the highest Il ar
ket price.
Formerly a little work on the farm
brought large profits. But with the
large and fertile western farms and
improved means Of transportation the
farmer is finding out the fact that he
must think more and work muscles
less. That the time has come when
farming must be lifted out of the rut
in which it has so long been confined,
into the track Of scientific knowledge
along which the more commonly called
professions have long been moving
Dairying seems more completely to
fill the present needs than any other
branch Of farming.
Cooperative Creameries.
1t has been thoroughly demonstrate
ed that the Co operative creamery fur
nishes the most profitable and practi-
cal vay in which dairying can be car
ried on, and through its agency pros
pCrity has been brought to many far
mers who before going into this line
Of business could hardly save a dollar
from their farm from year to year,
and who not only did not but could
not own herd of cows
/ The latest improvements in butter
making are introduced into these
creameries, representing years of ex-
periments, costing thousands of dol
lars in money, thus starting the far
mer in business with every possible
advantage There is perhaps no
branch of our natural life that shows
more immense advancement in the
past thirty years than dairying, large
ly brought about through the agency
of cooperative creameries using sepa-
ratOrs.
As the century begins dairying is
rising out of the obscurity of years,
and offering to the farmer not only a
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