Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-17
WORLD'SBIC BUTTER MARKET
Omaha Leads the Country in the Out.
put Of Creameries.
ITS LOCATION Is JUST RIGHT
Farmers of Nebraska Have learned
of the Added Wealth TO BE Had
from the Milking of
Their Cows.

from the Milking OF
Their Cows.
Within the last few years Omaha has
grown to be the greatest producer OF
creamery butter in the world. This emf
hence was attained at least four years ago
when the output for 1906 was 10000 600
pounds, Of an estimated value OF $500 900,
and since then the distance between Omaha
and It's nearest competitor has grown by
leaps and bounds so that Omahas posi-
ton as the first butter making city in the
world is not challenged nor even APP
preached by any rival.
For the current year the estimated out
put is one-third more than in 1906, or 15,-
900, 900 pounds, worth something like 5000,
Co.,
The product OF the Omaha creameries
goes round the world. A large percentage
is for foreign export trade and particularly
In Great Britain has a big demand been
created for Omaha butter.
One of the chief reasons for the growth
Of the butter business here lie the develop
ment Of the centralized creamery, within
the last ten or eleven years. Centralized
manufacture Of butter means a great re-
duction In the cost Of producing and mar
keting, making 1t to the interest OF hun
dreds of small plants located all over the
rural districts TO consolidate or to become
feeders OF the large plants in the big
olties with their expensive equipment Of
machinery.
That Omaha is the only city where 50
many centralized creameries exist IL
ascribed to its specially favored geograph-
cal location. In past years the east be-
came unable to make the butter It needed
for its own consumption because the large
population there demands all the milk and
cream produced within shipping distance
for immediate use in the natural state.
Abundance of Milk.
Further west and Is far as the Missouri
river conditions are similar although to
lessened degree. Not until Omaha IL
reached is a territory found able to produce
more cream than Is needed for use at
home
BY reason of its railway facilities Omaha
draws cream from a distance OF 900 miles
on every side, turning 1t into butter rap
idly as approved appliances can do It,. All
Iowa is q good dairying country. Eastern
Nebraska has rapidly become as good as
Iowa for cream and the western part of
the state is showing a surprising develop
ment along this line, stockmen findl;g that
they can we'll afford to milk ana thus
add neat little income to other sources
Northwestern Missouri has been devel-
oped for some time for the purposes of the
Omaha creameries, and even northwestern
Kansas is considerably drawn upon.
The development Of creamery business in
Omaha and the demand constantly growing
for more cream and better cream, to-
gether with general spreading OF baterio-
logical knowledge has resulted in the I'M
proyement of conditions in the territory
close at home with the result that the
! local supply has greatly increased both In
quality and quantity. ~ e-.ts
| Articles in the public press, teachings of
dairy schools, the influence of the law and
the educative influences OF manufacturers
these factors, together with what farmers
have learned by their practical experience,
have been slowly working great reforms
in the production OF milk and cream.
Revenue Producers.
| The production Of milk is now recognised
as revenue gaining industry, capable Of
profitable expansion when employing well
| directed and wei educated effort. In these
circumstances the producer is gradually
recognizing that in order that this Industry
may make him money, he must understand
1 the increasing demands for quality, must
understand the limits of the manufactur-
| er's ability to handle goods that will supply
that quality and he must regard the man
dates of the law as healthy conditions"
In turn the manufacturers have grown to
recognize the dignity Of the productive In
terests, their claims to fair dealing and
their claims TO educatipe inflaences, tact
fully asserted,
MILK Easily Damaged.
There are many ways in which milk can
be damaged. 1t is exposed, not only to
ARCHAEOLOGICAL Influences before being
drawn from the udder but doors cOmmuni-
Gated to by the COW herself, and by foreign
matter falling into the milk, by odors from
the barn, from the barnyard, and by the
odors Of tobacco and vegetables with which
1 it may come in near proximity and since
milk absorbs these odors readily, In pro-
portion as 1t receives them, it is damaged.
\ The hand separator is simply modifca-
/ ton in size OF the power separator that
dominated the system OF handling milk
for a short time prior to about 1900. Its
application 10 the separating of milk on the
| farm marked an economical epoch In tho
history Of dairying, the force of which is
not appreciated even today by the larger
part u lIlobN AilS uallS PibbANS9'
1t Is not always used to the highest adj
vantage for quality That will come later
| in the higher education, but the apprecia-
ton Of the hand separator. by the produc-
ing people is today such that there is no
doubt that II has come TO stay and Will
dominate the dairy industry more in the
coming years than now, and 1t only re-
mains for the educators OF the public to
address themselves to the correction OF
evils that are attendant upon It's operation
as incident orly.
Hand Separator TO Stay.
! You could no more eliminate the hand
separator from the farms OF this country"
says one authority, 'than you could dam
the Mlssissippi-or stop the ebb and flow Of
the tides OF the sea.
| 1T marks a step in economical advance
ment, and there are few. II any OF US. that