The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-10-05
A CREAMERY AN OPPORTUNITY.

1t is too often the case with a great
many communities that while believ-
ing in and wishing for local industries
they overlook the opportunities lying
at their feet, as it were, while strain
ing their gaze after some big cotton
factory or other very expensive and
douDtfully successful industry. They
seem to get away from the truism that
II is the little things that count and
make up the big things.
II We look over the industrial field
we md as a general thing, if not en-.
tirely so, that all the big industries
nave grown up from small beginnings;
IN the case of such mammoth affairs
as the Steel Trust it has been a case
OF evolution from the small to the
consolidated great. A factory cannot
succeed unless its product has a mar
ket. A big factory with an immense
capacity throwing it's output into the
market already filled with similar
goods must natnralf fail unless it has
the capital behind z to suffer loss un
til it can win fits way, and then it is
seriously doubtful if it can be made
to win through.
1.-THE failure of many small cotton
4ill undertakings in the south as we'll
al some p%retentious ones has demon
strAted that success in any undertake
ing depends upon the Suitability of
the product. When the long felt want
or possibility of creating a want is alb
sent, then making a "go" of new in
dustries is mostly a matter of mo 60"
This should present the matter of
building up local industries in the
light that it should be seer from in
the first instance. And that is to man
ufacture or produce something for
which there is a reasonably large To-
cal demand. The effort should be to
supply this demand and by producing
such a superior article win a demand
beyond the local market and thus
build up
II we look about in the stores and
see what is being sold in our town
and parish it is easy to find some
things that we might engage in max
ing for home use and thus keep u
money at home, while giving the
young people of our community en-
ployment that is both profitable and
advantageous.
Among the various industries that
1t would be possible to inaugurate in
Lafayette parish we would suggest as
one Of the most needed and promis-
ing in the way of profits to all con
cerned would be the establishment of
a cooperative creamery at Lafayette.
There is an immense amount of west
ern butter consumed in the parish and
town, a quantity fully sufficient to
keep a moderate size creamery act
lively in operation for twelve months in
Tic yCdI. VIC Soh many al thS Dut
ter NEEDED for home consumption and
much more, then why should we not
do it? Why buy our butter from the
west to the great profit of those COM
munities when we can profit ourselves
and be sure at the same time that we
are getting a pure and first-class arti-
Gle, and a little cheaper, for we save
the freight.
People prosper when they learn
how to use the they have
and take advantage of their opportu-
mites. Lafayette parish for soil, eli
mate and general advantages a not
be beaten. We have a fortune here in
our lands and opportunities; it is for
us to develop both, and in doing SO let
us not overlook the things for us to do
that are lying before us awaiting the
doing.