The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-02-19
SOMETHING THAT IS NEEDED.
CREAMERY FOR FARMVlLLE.


interviewing our business men and
farmers during the past 10 days in the
interest of establishing at Farmvllle a
creamery on the Elgin system OF man
ufacturing butter, shipping cream, etc.
We see no reason why such an insti-
tuition should not be a good industry
for our town and community. Other
towns support enterprises OF this
kind in different States and sections,
and with our cheap lands, mild WIN
ters and shipping facilities, Farmville
should be an ideal place for the busl-
ness. The proposed plant will be
equipped with the latest improved ma
chinery and appliances for the making
of butter and handling and shipping OF
cream, the separator having a capaci-
ty of separating the cream from three
thousand pounds of milk per hour,
producing 20 per cent more cream
than can be raised under the setting
or gravity system, losing one pound
of butter to every twelve gallons, or
100 pounds of milk that can be saved
by sending the same to the creamery
and having it put through the separa-
tor. The skinned milk returned to
the farmer will be sterilized (of which
he receives so per cent and which
remains sweet thereby containing
more nutriment for feeding than sour
milk.
A plant of this kind will put in cir
culation several thousand dollars each
month among our farmers, creating a
greater cash increase of trade among
the various lines of business in the
town. Dairy farming improves the
land in a substantial manner and en-
hances the value while what a cream
erv does for the merchant, the doctor,
the miller, in fact all lines Of trade is
obvious it gives the farmers cash
with which to pay his bills each
month. while under the ordinary ope-
ration of farming their bills are paid
once or twice each year Moreover it
enables the farmers and other pro-
ducers of milk to realize the highest
- amount possible under any conditions
for their product with the least
amount of labor.
The plan of operating the plant will
p be purely cooperative, no one own
/ inc but one share of stock-one hun
dred dollars. and nothing to be paid
until the plant is completed and ready
for operation.
D. A number of our business men and
farmers are subscribing shares to the
y same which strongly points to an in
e stitution of this kind for Farmyille in
y the near future if only enough others
e will do likewise when approached on
the subject. Over two-thirds of the
n shares have been subscribed, and If
= YOU have not already met the above
y named gentlemen, they will probably
e call on you, and will be pleased to
explain the system at length.
e Remember the success and growth
e of community depends on the bust
d ness men and farmers being awake to
$ the opportunities as they pass along.
/ This is an enterprise our people
"a should encourage and not let it 90 by.
IS In connection with the question as
to what Dairy Farming does for the
ie soil the following is taken from Cole
'r mans Rural World
IN Lest the dairymen forget the i'm
portant relation between dairying anC
fertility. as compared with the other
branches OF farming and live stock
husbandry, we wish to call attention
r. to some figures recently made public
* by the Ohio experiment station. Ac
re cording to these figures, when a mar
4. sells 81 worth of straw from his farm
no he sells as much fertility, that is re
I'd moves it from his farm, as he woulC
Sc sell in $50 worth of butter When he
m sells SIS worth of oats he moves a.
ne much fertility from his farm as he
,d would in selling $325 worth of cream
to I'm selling $26 worth of wheat at so
,n per bushel he loses as much as though
he had sold 800 worth of cream.
Some people will believe am argu
ment like this when YOU are selling
Grain or hay from the farm, but the.
saw that there is very little difference
,o i'm the effect upon fertility whethe
IN YOU keep COWS or fatten steers or hogs
or, in fact practice any branch Of liv
a husbandry. The Ohio experiment sta
,e ton. however is authority for sayin
.; that when a man sells 500 worth .
id beef at Sc per pound he removes a
,t. much fertility as he would in sellin
400 .......l. 3 hutton o1ro fIot xrha