The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-11

II the test made shows the product to
be unfit for use. it is Immediately re-
jected. The Shawnee county stations
are at Richland. Tevis. Auburn, Wa
karusa, Dover. willard. Elmont, and,
Big Springs. 81
Change in Methods.
The system of handling cream has
been revolutionized in recent years.
Fourteen or fifteen years ago there
was q company power separator at
each station. Then milk was bought
from the farmers and dairymen and
was skinned by the Continental rep
at the station.
Today nearly every farmer owns his
cream separator and is able to skim
from 800 to 1000 pounds Of milk an
hour. The farmers feed the milk to
the pigs. Formerly they brought in q
1oaod of milk to the station every day:
now that is unnecessary.
Through the efforts of the company
the farmers and dairymen were in
duced to buy hand separators at a cost
of from $85 to 800. The farmers
were comparatively poor In those
days, and the company took their
notes and arranged to take the pay
from the cream checks. extending pay
ment over a period of time. T. A.
Borman. formerly with the Conrl-
mental company, and now president OF
the Kansas State Fair association and
editor Of the Kansas Farmer. was
largely responsible for the promotion
of the plan to have the farmers use
separators.
Handling of Butter.
The dairymen Of Shawnee county
and Kansas are indebted to the
creamery plants Of Topeka for the
creation Of an almost limitless market
and also for the raising Of the prices
Of dairy products. Many of these men
are now conn., aratively well-to-do and
bring their cream to the stations in
automobiles.
Butter is purchased. largely, from
merchants in small towns over the
state. It is packed In tubs and
shipped to Topeka. A quantity OF
milk is used in the production of what
is known as process" butter.
The Topeka Pure Milk company
does a large business in the eastern
third of the state. having thirty-ffve
stations. Aside from producing over
half a million pounds Of butter in
1913. the company handled more than
four million pounds of sweet milk In
the same period. OF this amount
nearly two million pounds was for
the Topeka city supply.
Cleanliness the Slogan.
Cleanliness is insisted upon at To-
peka creameries. For example, at the
y
baths for the special use OF the en-
ployees. who are required to wear
nothing but spotless garments while
on duty. All receptacles with which
milk. cream or butter come in contact
are thoroughly sterilized. A govern
ment inspector is on hand to place his
label on all cases Of process butter
shipped from the establishment.
Process butter is simply country
butter which has been purified and
which has had added the necessary
| elements to make 1t meet the govern
ment requirements. After the butter
is melted on heated coils, SKINNED
milk is added to the oil to give body
and the ingredi nts are then thor.
oughly mixed in a special receptacle
The process S a complicated one.
| And this. in brief, is the manner In
which the Topeka creamery concern.
! handle dairy products OF Shawnee and
other counties. The system is an In.
teresting one and the average person
knows little about it. The industry Il
growing and wonderful market hai
been opened to the farmers and dairy
| men OF Shawnee county. F. L. 8.
EDITORS note: This Is the tenth o.
a series of articles on agriculture II
Shawnee county published In thu
State Journal. The next article II
the series will deal with the city mill
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