Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-09-29
CREAMERY HAS
BEEN STARTED
Something About Methods
of Operation.

Following the election of a Board
of Directors for the new creamery
company lust Thursday, the plant
was formally turned over to the
officers by Vice-President Williams,
of the building company Friday and
the subscriptions were collected.
1t has been estimated that the
creamery would be in operation by
November first, but the project was
completed more rapidly than antici
pated This has caught some of
the stockholders short of the num-
ber of COWS they agreed to furnish
In view of this fact Vice-President
Williams generously offered to pay
the cost of operating the creamery
until Oct Is. This will give time
to get the COWS needed, and will also
aid the company that much, as quite
a quantity of butter will be made
between now and the middle of the
month.
One advantage which the stock
holders of the creamery will enjoy
is that all of the butter will be sold
at home, one merchant having ex-
pressed a desire to take the entire
output. This saves the expense of
marketing the butter, including
freight.
Plant Latest Model.
The plant is of the very latest
model. Engineer w. b. Writ having
asked for the newest type of cream
cry machinery. The churn holds
300 gallons, the cream receiving vat
300 and the milk vat 400 This will
enable the plant to handle from ten
TO fifteen hundred pounds of milk
day, eight pounds to the gallon. The
separator is the Delavale pattern, with
a capacity of $500 pounds of milk per
hour. The milk is clarified by 60
ing through the separator all i'm
purities being removed by centrifu-
gal force. The skim milk is sterili-
zed permitting it to be kept sweet for
twenty-four to forty-eight hours.
This milk is used for feed for
stock, for which purpose it is es-
pecially adapted Eighty per cent
of the milk brought in is returned as
skim to the owner.
Cans for the milk men have been
ordered by wire, and when they
come routes viii be established. The
milk from eaca house will be brought
in in one can, and the skim milk
taken back. 1t will require only a
short time to separate the cream,
so that a wagon will be ready for
the return trip within an hour or two
at most
When the milk is brought to the
creamery it will first be weighed, and
the owner gets a check for the
skim, which will be about 80 . per
cent of the total weight sample
will be taken from each can and
placed in a receptacle bearing the
name of the sender AT the end of
ten days these samples will be test
ed, and the allotment of butter
made on the basis of the butter fat
to be found in 100 pounds of the sam
pie. 1t is confidently claimed that
the milk from Sumter county COWS
will be richer in butter fat than
COWS in the north, where so much of
the feed is needed to protect the
cattle against the cold of winter.
Each dairyman who sends milk to
the creamery will be charged cents
per pound on his share of the butter
This is to pay the salary of the but
ter maker and the expens IS of
running the plant In case the
creamery should be run to it3 capa-
city, this charge would probably be
lowered. 1t is estimated tlat each
COW should yield in butter $50 to
$50 each year, with the net cost of
maintenance VerV small