Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-10-05
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!. CLEMSON EXTENSION WORK j.
Article XIX.
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Creamery Fake.

| The creamery promoter sharks
have invr ded sections Of the Pied
mont belt Of this State, and, we
ganizing 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 demand for
| milk, cream and butter, and yet the
people have been led to believe that
a plant depending upon a good milk
| supply for success can be profftably
| operated. TO miSlead people into
such an enterprise Is nothing but
deceit and graft, and the people in
every community Of the State should
be on guard against such dealers in
gold bricks"
Georgia has just passed through
a sad and expensive creamery eX-
pericncc. During 1908 creamery
promoters of Chicago organized
seven creamericS in various parts of
the State, costing from $4,950 to
5000. OF these seven creamerics
only one is now in operation, and
1t IS financed by capitalist. All
the remainder have perished from
lack OF support. AT some Of these
plants not more than 40 or 80 cows
supplied milk, while for profitable
operation the milk from 800 COWS
OF average quality is required.
one or these creameries lost 1,700
in few months time, while the
failure Of others showdcd either
that no money was made or there
was loss.
The establishing Of creamcries in
sections where there is practically
no dairy interest. and where local
markets pay more for dairy products
lhan creamery can possibly pay.
IS absolute folly, as is witnessed by
til" experience of Georgia, Kentucky
and other States. Yet the people
are being misled ana deceived by
smooth-tonsued sellers Of machn-
more for there machinery than it
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 it should be
taken into consideration that these
profits were made in dairy 'ocali-
lies--places where the dairy is the
money crop and where most every
farmer has herd OF COWS and un-
dcrStands how to handle those COWS.
IN such sections creameries are ne
cesSary to handle the milk from
these COWS and to find market for
products. Such conditions do not
exist in South Carolina Cows arc
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
Il good price, and farmers know very
little about how to handle COWS TO
the best advantage, and most often
10 not care to learn. A creamery
cannot afford TO pay more than $3.50
per hundred pounds for milk, and un-
I'll the farmers learn how to produce
1t at profit for this price it is foolish
10 expect creamery to he a success.
II any section Of the State is in
'creStcd in creamery it should care
iully investigate the milk s,lpDlv
first, and then form Il company of
interested men. buy the machinery
necessary to equip it at a reasonable
prlcc ana begin operations on
practical business basis. and not be
rushed into an enterprise pushed for
ward by a set Of men who have no
interest in its success further than
the sale OF the machinery at cXorbi-
tant prices. Banks and other bust
| ness undertakings first investigate
| the possibilities Of success before
Offices are erected, but the doctrine
or the creamery promoter is to get
the building and equipment first re-
| gardless Of other conditions.
The Extension Department of
| Clemson College will be glad to visit
| any community interested in creamc-
RES and advise them as to the re-
| Qu1rcmcnlS Tor successful operation
and assist them in every way in cs-
| tabliShing such an enterprise should
| the outlook for success prove favor
abe. Plans and specifications for
crcamcries can be obtained free OF
cost from the United States Depart-