The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-02
Continental Creamery Is Larg-
est Plant of Its Kind.
Cows MIXED Daily for Institu-
tiOn Number 100000.
ITS MARKET is NATION WIDE
Train Loads of Butter and Eggs
Are Shipped.
Silos Are Now Important Fac
tor i'm the Business.
SUNDAY

The equivalent of a dozen freight
trains of butter and as many of eggs
are shipped out OF Topeka annually by
one concern-the Continental Cream
cry company. whose combined output
of more than eight million pounds of
creamery and process butter is the
largest of any similar institution in the
world.
The output of creamery butter is
more than five million pounds and
that of process butter three million.
Three hundred and fifty car loads OF
eggs are handled i'll twelve months
Aside from this. zoe, ,0O0 gallons of ice
cream are made at the plant and 500
silos which are assem- bIed here will
be shipped out to farmers this year.
The market for the concern is ma
tion wide, but the biggest fields for the
produce are to the east and the south.
Heavy shipments are sent way down
to Virginia. Fred Harvey uses the
famous Meadow Gold butter at his
eating houses and the process but
ter for cooking purposes.
Small Army OF People.
1t takes small army of people to
handle the raw and finished material
for the Continental-15.0 900 is the esti-
mate of J. TompkiIs, the purchasing
agent for the company. There are 450
stations in Kansas and other nearby
ceived and shipments made. Then
there are over 100000 cows that are
miiked every day to supply the cream
cry. Two hundred persons are en-
ployed at the Topeka plant.
Some time ago a whole train load
of butter was shipped from the Con-
tinental.
The produce is bought at the re-
spective stations and paid for on the
spot. Milk and cream are shipped to
q NAyN
Mexico and Texas it comes in refriger-
ator cars. Every passenger train ar
irving in Topeka brings produce for
the Continental wagons meet the
trains day and night. Every day l.,
500 of the ten gallon cans 1000 of
which are owned by the company. are
received ct the plant. Aside from this
300 cans are shipped in by individuals.
The farthest station from which ship
ments are made to Topeka is at dis
lance OF 6S6 miles. A compare lively
small amount OF raw material is
brought in by the farmers in the vi
cinity of Topeka.
Big Business in Hen Fruit
While $50 car loads of eggs are han
died at Topeka in a year many cars
are shipped direct from the stations
at which the eggs are purchased to
the customers In the busy season
March. April and May-three car
loads of eggs are received each day.
Every one of the eggs are c2ndled, and
for this purpose Is Gambling booths are
provided at the plant. The bad eggs
are dumped into the sewer and the
good hen fruit is packed in from
1000 TO 1900 cases. 4 large proper
ton of the ggs is packed in cartons
holding one dozen each-thirty to
case.
The sflo department of the concern
is something of comparatively recent
development By the distribution of
silos, the management hopes to en-
courage the development of the dairy
industry.
freezer at the plant that has a capacity
of 125 gallons an hour. There has
been u heavy demand for ice cream
this summer in Kansas. and conse-
quently thousands of gallons of cream
of different f4avors have been shipped
AS previously mentioned. the output in
a year is 100, 600 gallons
Cleanliness Is Slogan.
Cleanliness is the slogan at the
Continental creamery There are
shower baths for the special use of the
employees who are required to wear
on duty at the plant All receptacies /
with which milk. cream or butter
come in contact are thoroughly ster-
ilized by machinery. A govern
ment inspector is on hand to place his
label on all cases of process butter
shipped from the abliShment- There
is q special room where q thousand
tests are made of the incoming raw
supposedly ready for packing. to see
that the proper standard Of perfection
is maintained.
The making of butter at the Con-
tinental plant is done on scientific J
principles The process variety isl
purified and which has had added the |