The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-10-05
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invaded section of the Piedmont Belt
of this state and we understand have
succeeded in organizing at least one
creamery company and are now at
work in other communities. In the
sections in which they are working It
is safe to say that there are not
enough COWS to supply the local de-
mand for milk, cream and butter, and
yet the people have been led to be-
lieve that plant depending upon a
good milk supply for success. can be
profitably operated. To mislead peo-
pie into such All enterprise is nothing
but deceit and graft and the people
in every community of the State
should be oil guard against such deal
ers in gold bricks"
Georgia has just passed through
"A sad and expensive creamery expert
ence. During 1908 creamery promo
ters of Chicago organized seven cream
cries in various parts of the State
costing $4,960. to $4,000. OF these
seven creameries only one is now in
operation and 1t is financed by cap
italist. All the remainder have per-
ished from lack of support At some
of these plants not more than forty
or fifty COWS supplied milk while for
profitable operation the milk from five
hundred COWS of average quality is
required. One of these creameries
lost seventeen hundred dollars I'm n
few months time. while the failure of
others showed either that no money
was made or there was loss.
The establishing of creameries in
sections where there is practically no
dairy interest and where local markets
creamery can possibly pay. is absolute
folly as is witnessed by the experience
of Georgia. Kentucky and other States.
Yet the people are being misled and
deceived by smooth tongued sellers of
machinery who charge about fifty per
cent more for their machinery than
ii can be purchased for elsewhere
That creameries are profitable no
one denies and that samples cited by
promoters in proof OF this profit may
be true, but 1t should be taken into
consideration that these profits were
made i'm dairy localities-places where
the dairy is the money crop and where
most every farmer has n herd of cows
and understands how to handle those
COWS. In such sections creameries are
necessary TO handle the milk from
these COWS and to find market for
the products. Such conditions do not
exist in South Carolina. Cows are
scarce and poor in quality and more
than that they cannot be bought in
sufficient number Local demands for
milk cannot be supplied even at
goo price and farmers know very lit
tie about how to handle COWS to the
best advantage and mos; often do not
care TO learn. A creamery cannot af-
ford 10 pay more than one and a halp
dollars per hundred pounds for milk
and until the farmers learn how to
produce it at a profit for this price |
il is foolish to expect a creamery to !
be success.
If any section of the State is in
terested in a creamery it should care
fully investigate the milk supply first
an then form a company OF interested
men GUY the machinery necessary to
equip 1t at reasonable price and be- ,
gin operations on a practical business
basis and not be rushed into an enter
prise pushed forward by set of men
who have no interest i'm it's success
further than the sale o. the machinery
at eXorbitant prices Banks and other
business undertakings first investigate
the possibilities OF success before Of
fees are erected but the doctrine of |
the creamery promoter is to get the
building and equipmen; first regard |
less Of other conditions.
The Extension Department of Glenn
son college will be glad to visit any
community interested in creameries |
and advise them as to the requirements |
for successful operation and assist |
them in every way In establishing such |
an enterprise should the outlook for
success prove favorable. Plans and
specifications for creameries can be
obtained free of cost from the L. S. /
Department of Agriculture.
With all of these things at their |
comand no community should be mis-
led and caused to lose money by men
who seek their own gain only. Where /
creameries are promoted and fail the
dairy interests are set back many