The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-02-15

| ed where there were not sufficient
COWS, generally results unsatisfactory
ly to the farmer. 1t costs as much
money to manufacture the butter from
$50 COWS as it does for 500 COWS, prac-
tically speaking. What l mean to say
is that it requires the same amount
of labor and machinery. | would,
therefore, not advise any one to under
take to establish a creamery in any
community unless he was sure of at
least 500 COWS before starting. If
had the time | would write you at
length and go into details in regard
to this matter, but just now | am do
ing service at the state capitol as
member of the legislature and my mind
os on making laws rather than on es'
tablishing creameries. Some time
later. if you so desire, would be
pleased to write you an article on this
subject"
Mr. Troy's offer to write at greater
| length on this subject is certainly ap-
preciated not only by the editor of
The Ranch, but also by the thousands
of it's readers. When the legislature
has adjourned and Mr.. Troy has re-
turned to his work of making and sell
| ing fine butter we will remind him
that our dairy readers are waiting for
his article on the starting and sue.
| ceSSful management of a creamery.
In his communication Mr.. Troy sets
| the number of COWS at 500, which is
the number usually advised whenever
the question is prOpounded. We have
a reply from Mr.. E. Gyllenspetz, man
ager of the creamery at Lynden, What
com county, and he also favOrS 500
COWS or more. The Lynden creamery
| is one of the most successful in the
country and the farmers who sell milk
to it are among the most progressive
and substantial in the state. They are
making money from their dairy herds.
Mr.. Gyllenspetz says:
Your inquiry as to the number of
average farm COWS that would be
necessary before it is advisable to I'M
dertake the starting of creamery to
make it O. success is before me. In
answer, | will say: When the milk is
brought to the creamery. separated
there and the skimmilk returned to
the farmers, it requires 400 to 500
COWS within a radius of five or six
miles from the creamery to make
successful creamery. In a few in
stances creameries have started with
as low as 300 COWS successfully, where
there were prospects of an increase in
the number of cows | would not, how
ever, advise the starting of cream
cry with so few COWS. A creamery
should never start with less than 500
to 600 COWS, and with the advent of
| the hand separator, when the milk is
skinned on the farm and nothing but
cream sent to the creamery, you can
increase the radius for gathering the
cream TO ten or twelve miles, and far
Their where the roads are good. Cream
can be shipped to the creamery by rail
and by steamboats, from still greater
distance in localities so favored.
For the creamery, select good
building spot, centrally located, with
good drainage and good water-and
plenty of the latter. Put up a good
building. A brick building is the best,
but building constructed of lumber
will do. Cover the studding with
boards Oh the outside and inside, and
cover the outside and inside boards
with good building paper, then put
siding on the outside and ceiling on the
inside. Purchase the best machinery
you can get. This may cost a little
more than a poorer line of machinery,
but it is money well spent and will pay
we'll Employ a good creamery OPP
orator and give him full control of the
| factory-and the new creamery will be
on the road to success"
A Separator Humbug.
This is the way the dairy commits
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