The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-04-20

not given the matter OF the selection Of
done
To return To the Importance of cream
cries, II our dairymen are TO get the high
est values for their dairy products il il
OF the utmost Importance that
they put their products on the market
50 as 10 get the highest price for them.
and 10 do this IL is necessary that thes.
products be produced in certain ways
IL II much better for farmers owning in
the aggregate 500 cows to combine and
build u factory than It would for each
one of them TO attempt 90 put their
product on the market from their farms
The manufacturers Of butter and cheese
~ well as the handling of milk and
cream. requires an expert, and while We
may mud on some farms they are rar-
and ma any case would be more or less
hamper,d IN getting their product to
market To illustrate. The year OF the
jamestown Exposition the Agricultural
College at Blacksburg decided to make
an exhibit OF u distributing plant on the
ground, drawing their supply OF milk
from the dairy farms around Blacks
burg IL Is needless to say that il would
have BEEN impossible for the dairymen
themselves or anyone of them to have
done what was dOne-Damely, To deliver
10000 gallons of milk from blacksburg
10 the Exposition grounds and haul Il
almost ten miles on country roads at
either end, about 20 miles in all, and de-
liver Il in prime condition-in fact, in
better condition than 10 was when taken
INTO the creamery. 1t is easily explain
ed This milk was all brought TO the
creamery a. soon AS MIXED, and twice
each day, as soon as brought to the
- 4.
through DeLaval separator at once
dropped into Harrington Pasteurizer
and heated to $50 F. il was changed
from the first receptacle in which II was
heated once in about 20 minutes and
passed Into another, where Il was cooled
to about the temperature OF the water
aud Into a third whereit was cooled with
the brine from the brine tank to about
$50 This milk was then partly frozen
by floating cans In the brine tank and
sufficiently to admit OF the milk being
delivered at the Exposition ice cold For
shipment these cans were further pro
tected by covering with u Jacket OF FELT
about three-quarters inch thick. have
said that this milk was delivered at the
Exposition 10 better condition than when
received at the creamery, and to further
explain this statement, will say that the
bacteria content when IL reached the Er-
position showed for the most part less
than 500
wish TO impress upon you all what
you people can do by cooperation. This
which ! have shown was accomplished
in the case OF the creamery at Blacks
burg can be Just as well repeated here
at Fredericksburg by your farmers CO.
operating together and building a plant
and employing an expert 20 look after
manufacturing and marketing your
products. The people around Burkeville
have done this and they have today q
creamery, a cooperative creamery W hich
Is serving a considerable number OF
dairymen and their product Is being
placed sh over Virginia, North Carolina
aud South Carolina already. and for the
most part as cream, and they have been
running scarcely six months
would be very glad. indeed alter
csnvassinR this community and n we
find that the prospects would justify Il,
To go ahead and get up q cooperative
association and build creamery and
get the product on the markets In the
best possible way.