The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-09-20
WOULD START
CREAMERY
GOOD SIDE LINE 70 FRUIT GROWING
Creamery Man CaavaS>ine the Valley
In IAtrrest Of CO.0VeRatlVe
Creamery.

- lhos. }. Davidson, OF Helena,
Mont, is in the valley Canvassing the
business men and farmers az to the
advisability Of starting a cooperate ye
! creamery in Hood River. He rspre.
/ sents the Hastings Industrial compa-
( ny, OF Chicago, who manufacture and
establish creamery plants. Mr.. Thom-
as has just finished putting In a
creamery at Dufur, and says that they
are well pleased with the prospects at
that place. There Is no question as
to the profits of good creamery In
hood River. The price of butter is
always high here, and the bulk of 1t
has to be shipped in from cresmeries
In other parts Of the state. II would
take ut least 200 COWS to furnish cream
enough to keep moderate sized plant
running at plott, and there may be
some question as to whether there is
that many COWS in the valley that
could be made tributary to a cream
cry, whose product could be secured
for creamery. The Mount Hood
country is more interested In prop
osition of that kind than the lower
valley, as they have considerable hay
and pasture land in the upper valley
that is not given up exclusively to
raising fruit However, there ale
many farmers near town who keep one
or more cows, and could spare more
or less cream, and many make theiI
own butter who would no doubt be
glad to get rid Of that trouble il they
could get about as much for their
cream as for their butter after 1t had
been brought to market
The merhants are heartily in favor
Of creamery here, II it can be shown
that it would be operated at "a profit
The sale of creamery butter is much
m, rs satisfactory than the ranch but
Ger which is of constantly varying
quantity and quality.
Many of the farmers of the Mount
Hood country are sending their cream
to Portland, and 1t Is claimed that
much better returns can be secured
from creamery near at home, saving
the express on the cream to Portland,
ann the express back on the but.
ter, while there is also saving of Il
to 70 per cent in butter fat that Low
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The following advantages are claim
ed by the advocates of the co-opeIa.
tive creamery:
Cooperative factories are owned
and contI oiled by farmers who fur
nisb the milk.
From 20 to 40 farmers and business
men of the town each owning from
800 to 5000 of the stock, combine to
own factory and run 1t on the prin-
ciple of making COWS pay as much as
possible.
Private or individual factories are
rnu on the opposite principle, viz /:
Big profits for the factory, and OBJ
tanning their milk from the farmers
as cheaply as possible.
Patrons Of CO. cooperative factories re.
alize from SO to Sl2 per COW more. than
do the patrons Of private creameries.
Each patrons milk is delivered in
his own can or cans, and is separately |
weighed and also tested, TO determine |
the quantity Of butter that 1t cou-
tains.
The cream is Immediately separated |
from the milk by running the whole |
milk through machine called q
Centrifugal separator" The sweet |
skim milk is returned at once to the |
patron free OF charge.
The cream Is made up into fancy |
hutter and sold by the manager of the
factory at the highest market price.
At the end of each month full set
Element is made with the patrons.
From 2 to 3 cents per pound of butter /
made IL taken out to pay the expense
of making, packing, selling and ship
ping the butter, as we'll as the profits |
of the factory; the bnlsnce of the
money is divided among the patrons
in proportion to the amount OF butter /
contained In each ones milk.
They are convenient. Milk can be
delivered at any time between 6 and
10 o'clock in the forenoon, to suit the
convenience of patrons In warm /
weather, and every other day In cold |
weather. Hence milk can be hauled |
six miles to butter factory as CON
veniently as three miles to a cheese
factory or one mile to a depot for
shipment. No ice is required, as 1t |
matters not how warm the milk is de.
livered as long as ii is not sour.
They will relieve your housewives
and families Of nearly one-half OF |
their household Dabors by taking care
of milk and the drudgery of butter
making entirely out of the houses.
They bring cash every month, sup
plying the farmer with ready money
for bis immediate wants, keeping him
on "pay as you go'' basis, teaching
him the true road to independence
and affluence, and besides the ready
money, he has produced his own fer
tilizer, the best for his land, and is
growing rich In two-fold way.
Take home made butter from fifty
different farms and you will have IF
ty different kinds. IL made In fac
tory, uniform color, sailing and pack
ing, and will bring a much better
price.
Butter factories get the farmer into
which practically takes no
fertility from the farm, but will al
ways improve 1t.
There is nothing produced on the
farm that sells ACr more per pound
than butter.
There Is no product that can be got.
ten to market as cheaply a. butter.
II your coWs give rich milk the test
shows it and you are paid for sich
milk.
By the separator process practically
all the cream is taken from the milk,
and all the butter obtained from the
cream, by which from 10 to 25 per
cent more pounds of butter are OBJ
which sells in the market for
a much higher price than does farm
ers' butter.