Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-06-04
Plant is Badly Needed Here and
is Now Attainable.
HIGHER PRICES FOR FARMERS
Mbdern Methods Would Mean Much
in Developing An Industry That
Should Be Of Great Benefit to the
Business People of Town and coun-
tY-The Project Outlined.

A movement has been i~naugurated
for the erection Of a modern creamery
in Martinsburg, and is meeting with
substantial encouragement. Messrs
Jones and Bancroft, who erected tho
creameries at Charles Town and Bes-
ryyille, are interesting the business
men and farmers OF the city and coun'
ty in the project. The demand for firss
class butter and cream is growing
each year, and the price is keeping
pace with the demand. 1t is claimel
that there is always money to be made
in a dairy section, giving the farme s
the highest cash returns twelve
months in the year.
1t is pointed out that $4,000 to $75,
900 paid out among the farmers eacn
year within a radius of seven or eight
miles of the city would be of great
benefit to the business men Of the
town, as we'll as greatly enhance the
value Of land and live stock.
1t is stated that the plant Will be
equipped with the most modern ma
chinery and appliances, the separator
having a capacity for handling 5000
pounds of milk per hour. producing
thereby 20 per cent more butter thar
can be made under the settling or
gravity system. This product would
easily sell from s 10 10 cents per
pound more than the average country
product will bring IN the city markets.
The skinned milk would be returned
to the farmers, and being sterilized
would remain sweet for feeding pur'
poses. Routes would be established
for bringing in the milk and cream
to the plant.
The plan of operation would be
purely cooperative, no one owning
but one share of stock of 800, and
nothing would be paid until the plant
is completed and ready for operation,
when a permanent organization would
be perfected by Incorporating and cleo
ting regular officers.
In Connection with the question as to
what dairy farming does for the SOL
alone, the following from Coleman's
Rural Work will be of interest:
Lest the dairyman forget the JIM
portant relation between dairying and
fertility as compared with the other
branches of farming ana nve stock
husbandry. we wish to call attention
to some figures recently made public
by the Ohio experiment station. Ac'
cording to these figures, when a mar
sells 81 worth of straw from his farm
he sells as much fertility, that is re
moves it from his farm. as he would
sell in $50 worth of butter. When he
sells SIS worth of oats he moves as
much fertility from his farm as he
would in selling 1855 worth of cream.
In selling $40 worth of wheat at so
cents per bushel he loses as much as
though he had sold 5000 worth of
cream. Some people will believe an
argument like this when You are sell
ing grain or hay from the farm, but
they say there is very little difference
to the effect upon the fertility whether
YOU keep cows or fatten steers or
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hogs, or in fact, practice any branch
of live husbandry. The Ohio expert
ment station, however, is authority
for saying that a mar sells $500 worth
of beef at ) cents per pound he re.
moves as much fertility as he would
in selling $500 worth Of butter also
that when he sells 800 worth of pork
at ) cents per pound ne sells as much
fertility as he would if he sold $3.50
worth of cream. AS a matter of fact
in dairying in the selling of butter or
cream. very little fertility is removed
from the farm. 1t is estimated that in
selling a ton of butter no more than
so cents worth of plant food is remoy-
ed from the farm. and II the butter
was absolutely clean and pure, there
would be none removed"