St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-09-05
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A Creamery Would
Be A Great Asset


Using matter, These companies
will gladly send a list of appara-
tus and equipment and an esti-
mate of their cost and will offer
valuable suggestions. However,
it must be remembered that
these concerns are interested
parties and their statements
should be submitted to the Dairy
Department of the Experiment
Station for criticism and varifi-
cation.
The equipment of a 300 to 500
COW creamery will include a 20
horse power boiler, a IL to Is
horse power steam engine; milk
pumps; power cream separator;
milk heater; weigh can; milk re-
ceiving vat; cream ripener;
weigh can; a combined churn
and butter worker: a refrigera-
tor room; wash sink; babcock
tester; skim milk tank; butter
milk tank; skim milk weigher;
milk sheets; composite test jars;
dairy thermometers; platform
scales; and numerous miscelsa-
neous items items such as pipe
tools, including pipe vice and
thread cutters and necessary
belts, pulleys, etc
The cost of this machinery
would probably be between $1,000
and $1,000. In many communi-
ties it will be found desirable
and profitable to install in con-
nection with the creamery a fair
sized equipment for the manu-
facture Of ice. This added ma
chinery may be placed in the
same building at an added cost
Of a few hundred dollars. In
many cases it will also pay to en-
gage in ice cream making, at
first in a small way, later ex-
panding if this should be found
profitable. One large creamery
at Hopkinsville, Kentucky. has
found it profitable to operate a
poultry and egg business in con-
junction with the creamery.
Here thousands Of fowls are fat
tened ON skinned milk and but
ter milk, dressed and shipped to
the market. The cold storage
facilities here accommodate the
poultry and eggs as well as milk,
butter and ice cream.
We wish to warn groups of
farmers about to embark upon
creamery organizations TO be-
ware of the so-called creamery
shark or promoter. Thousands
of committees have been victim
lied by this man. He comes in
to a community and secures sub
scriptions for stock amounting
to $4,000 or $4,000, puts in a plant
costing about half this amount
and pockets the balance, leaving
the farmers in the lurch. Most
creameries organized in this
manner fail within a short time.
On the other hand when a
creamery is organized in the
manner indicated above the
farmers themselves taking the
initiative and cooperating with
the State Experiment Station,
there is every chance for sue
cess.
It should be rememb cred that
a successful creamery is a great
asset to any community. Il fur
nishes a means of disposing of
dairy products and brings in a
steady cash income, thus giving
new life and impetus to all lines
of business. In such communi-
ties dairying offers better profits
than either beef cattle or sheep
and the dairy COW will then SUI
percede the steer on a great
many farms due to the fact that
she has the ability to produce
six times as much human food
from a given amount of feed as
does the steer. 1t should also be
remembered that a well fed
dairy cow produces from Z to
Is tons of manure per year and
this returned to the soil very
greatly increases crop yields.
For producing gains in swine
especially young nogs, skinned
has no ct,nnria. Rast pa