The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-12-31
BY NELSON sHlPP.


Georgia has cot as many as six. A
single county in Wisconsin has forty
milk and batter creameries, and the
farmers of that state receive fifty-four
million dollars year for creamery
products
Practically every county in Illinois
has taken up the cooperative plan OF
organizing and financing creameries;
the state of New York and other east
ern states are doing likewise most
| successfully. Georgia is indeed back
ward in the manufacture Of creamery
products, but the boil weevil is des-
tined to painfully awake some sec
tions-to their great future good, how
ever.
In organizing creamery disregard
northern literature. a creamery can
be successfully maintained in the
north with four hundred cows. One
in the south must depend upon at
| least six hundred. A thousand would
be surer Each cow must 5giVe 1865
! gallons of milk a year ian average of
| one gallon day., containing four per
cent butter fat, reasonably free from
| bacteria. No southern creamery can
exist without this support day in and
day out, year in and year out.
A creamery founded on private cap
ital cannot succeed Every one Of
those six hundred COWS must be legal
| Iy bound to the creamery and the
products from these COWS be sold to
the creamery alone. Each one of these
COWS must be represented by one
share of stock, value about $40, and
no man should own over a hundred
shares of stock nor less than three.
If the COWS are thus bound and the
price of cotton still higher the owner
must not sell his COWS; if each COW
represents share of stock, he must
not stop milking to raise cotton.
A creamery can be established with
out a cent of money from the stock
holders. We can build a creamery in
Cordele before spring is over if the
enthusiasm is here, and without the
expenditure of money on the part of
the hackers. The plan is old and has
worked many times. 1t was this plan
that built the middle west 1t is this:
Each COW represents say $40 in
stock; this is to be paid in milk from
the COW. The farmer gives note to
this effect-that he will furnish the
creamery with $40 worth of good
milk-and the COW itself is the Sc
curity that this will be done. Six
milk or cream in exchange for stock.
A loan of $4,000 is secured from the
banks and the six hundred cows,
worth in the neighborhood Of $4,000,
will virtually be the security for the
loan. The $4,000 equips the creamery
which Immediately pasteurizes the
same at good price in the form of
twenty thirty and forty per cent
cream, we will say at $1,000. The
| bank however, as a rule, gives the
creamery one year to pay back the
money borrowed In this way cream
cries are being built without money"
so to speak
Generally, the local banks are pa
| triotic enough to back the movement
and make the loan. If not, there are
other banks that can be prevailed up
on to do so. 1t is likely that the New
Orleans financier who backed the Ea-
tonton creamery and one other in
Georgia would be interested.
The milk and butter creamery at
Eatonton, built on the cooperative
plan, has paid off practically every
mortgage in Putnam county You can
discern as you travel along the road
which of the farms are patrons Of
| the creamery and which are not by
the general appearance of the barns,
dwellings and even the crops. For
the great profit of keeping cows is the
increase in farm land output through
the use of compost.
A danger to creameries is dividends.
Not over six per cent dividends must
ever be paid.
Milk routes must be established, but
the auto trucks that gather the milk
are owned privately and the owners
are paid by the farmers three cents
per pound butter fat for transporting
I the cream to the creamery.
Each farmer must purchase cream
rator-either Sharples or a De
Laval. The creamery association boys
these wholesale and sells them at re-
tail to the farmers, who may pay for
same in cream as he did for his stock.
Cream is purchased by the butter
fat pound, and a man owning a good
COW will receive more for his milk
than one who milks a poor COW. This
will mean the importation into the
country of hundreds of fine cattle and
q renewed war on the cattle tick-if
ho is ON tho Scpnp The result. Ret