The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-07-09
NYSSA CHEESE FAC
TORY GREAT SUCCESS
New Buildingss Completed
and Machinery Installed.
FARMERS WELL PAID FOR HAY

pany Of Nyssa will move into its own
new factory about July 10. The capa-
city of the new factory, which is built
expressly for the cheese making bust.
ness, is 10000 pounds Of milk daily
The new plant is 2Sx50 feet with full
basement. At the rear Is the boiler
room, 10x14 feet. The cheese making
room is the full size of the main floor
of the building, 2Sx5O feet. The full
basement, which has concrete walls
and cement floors, will be used for
the storage room. The cost of the
building is 5000.
The factory will be equipped with =
new 12-horse power boiler, two vats
each having a capacity of 5000 pounds
of milk cheese press, etc. There Is
an elevator for conveying the cheese
from the main floor to the storage
room below.
The new factory will be as fly-proof
as is possible to make II. Il will be
double screened throughout. The milk
receiving station on IN north side OF
the factory is so arranged as to make
II almost impossible for flies TO get in
TO the factory proper.
Friis a Teutsch OF Nyssa have the
building contract and George Green
has the contract for the concrete and
cement work. Both contractors have
their work nearly completed.
$4,000 Pounds Of MIX In June.
Two hundred and twenty-five thou
sand pounds OF milk was received at
the Nyssa cheese factory during the
month OF June and from this was
made 2S,500 pounds OF cheese. The
225,OO0 pounds OF milk contained 5000
pounds OF butter fat, for which the
farmers received % cents per pound,
or total OF s2430 for one month.
On the tenth OF each month the far
mers get paid for the milk furnished
the preceding month. The factory
maintains three milk routes and hauls
all the milk TO the factory and hauis
all the whey back TO the farmers free
OF charge TO the farmers. The farmers
milk the cows and put the cans OF
milk at the roadside on convenient
platforms, from where the cans OF
milk are gathered by the wagons OPP
Grated on the cheese factory's milk
routes.
Hubert s. Smith Is the expert cheese
maker at the Nyssa factory. lie has
been a successful cheese maker for
years In the famous Tillamook district
in western 0rgon. He came to Nyssa
Jan. 10, 1913, and started the firs;
cheese factory in Nyssa, or In Malheur
county, on Feb. 3, 1913, On Nov,
1918, he sold this factory to a stock
company composed OF substantial Nv
ssa farmers who are still operatins II
and are building the new factory here
that in a few days will be ready for
occupancy.
Mr. Smith states the first, day the
factory was opened here he received
only 500 pounds OF milk. The receipts
have increased daily until now they
about 1900 pounds daily.
Mr., Smith states there is not
single dissatisfied farmer who sells his
milk To the cheese factory They figure
their alfalfa hay averages about 81
per ton when fed TO their dairy stock.
As their dairy stock improves in quail
ity, SO will their average returns from
the COWS increase, Much of the dairy
stock here now is stock cattle. But
the farmers here are improving their
herds right along. There are several
Hostein bulls here now, and the far
mers are going more and more into
Holstein stock. The farmers between
Nyssa. Ontario and KingmaH colony
are taking strongly TO forming milk
test association. In this manner is
weeded out the Improbable cows.
thereby building up better and more
dairy herds.
Among those who will increase their
dairy herds here are Peter Tensen,
who now has 20 cows, will have so
this fall. John .Stamm now has 10.
will have 40 next fall, w. l.. Gibson
now has 25. will have 40 in the spring.
:, c, Hunt now has seven. will have
"A next spring, DR., Sarazin has none
now, will have l2 next spring. Others
,an be named. but this shows how the |
larry business here is growing.
The officers of the Nyssa cheese fac,
ory are; President, DR.. j, j. Sarazin;
ice president, Peter Tensen; secre