Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-22
MODERN CREAMERY HERE
TO STIMULATE DAIRYING
Georgia Market Federation
and New Enterprise in At
Ianta Are Results of Jour-
naI-BankerS' Campaign
BY RALPH SMITH


the establishment in Atlanta of 6
modern, o-the-minute creamery
for the production of butter from
sour cream.
Like the farm markets federation
the creamery enterprise is the imme
date and direct outgrowth of the
market movement recently inaugu
rated by the Country~Bankers' asso
citation, in cooperation with The AT
lanta Journal.
The two developments stand out as
| concrete evidence of a determination
in Georgia to promote material pros
perity in every line of endeavor
through the provision Of agencies
that will encourage and permit the
expansion of diversified agriculture
which admittedly is the basis Of per-
manent prosperity.
In the markets federation there is
reflected the widespread and deep
seated recognition of the Importance
for concerted action by bankers
merchants and farmers in overcom
ing the obvious disadvantages OF
the one-crop system, which have
been accentuated by the depreda'
tons and ravages of the boil weevil
In the establishment Of the cream
cry enterprise there is reflected evil
dence Of the confidence in the belief
that modernized dairying offers one
of the surest and most hopeful
means of solving the perplexities
presented by inadequate facilities for
diversified marketing.
Nothing that has been suggested
for remedying conditions in the rural
districts has excited more interest
and commanded a reader response
than clarifying. A survey Of Georgia
and a careful study of the problems
of the farmers have crystalliZed into
a conviction, the impression that
dairy cattle and creamery products
are "sure things" in sporting par
lance, whsh the welfare Of the state
as a Whole is considered.
Heaftening and Significant
In these circumstances, the install
lation of equipment by the Belmont
Dairy company, of Atlanta, for man.
ufacturing high grade butter from
sour cream is one of the heartening
and significant developments in\the
market movement in Georgia. The
creamery is prepared to handle and
anxious to buy every available ounce
of sour cream that can be produced
by the farmers and dairymen of the
Atlanta territory.
1--WE have equipped our plant with
facilities for making butter from
sour cream and we will take all that
we can get" said Will V. thinner,
president of the Belmont Dairy COM
pany, whose plant is located at 1919
Luckie street.
1--WE were encouraged to engage
in the production of butter from
sour cream by the better markets
movement of the Country Bankers
association and The Atlanta Journal.
The articles appearing in The Jour-
nal concerning the development of
dairying in Selma, and the possibili-
ties of the industry, have convinced
us. that the industry deserves to re-
ceive every encouragement"
The Belmont Dairy company is no
stranger in Atlanta. It has been
in successful operation, under the di-
Eection Of Will V. thinner, for a
long, long time, and it's products are
well known and widely distributed
But the making of butter by the
Belmont Dairy company is some
thing new, and it is something that
originated in a desire to help the
community by helping the farmers.
1--WE have modern dairy estab-
lishment here for handling milk in
wholesale and retail quantities." ex-
planned Mr.. thinner. eve have in
stalled additional equipment for
handling sour cream, not in the hope
Of immediate profits, but in the con-
fident belief that the sour cream in
dustry offers a wonderful opportuni-
ty for the farmers.
cit is an enterprise that will fur
nish them with a steady income and
at the same time rehabilitate their
lands and dispose advantageously OF
such surplus crops Of corn, velvet
beans and other feedstuffs as they
may produce"
The Belmont Dairy company com
pleted the installation Of it's butter
making machinery, chiefly a 1000
pound churn, last Wednesday. anc
on Friday the churn was operated
for the first time. The output was
$40 pounds of as fine butter as one
would like to see anywhere.
1--WE sold our first product to the
Ansley hotel" said Mr.. thinner, "but
there is a local market for all the
butter we possibly can manufacture
We expect to have another ohurn
ing on Monday, and the butter we
get will be distributed locality"
Sour Cream i'm Demand
what we most need is cream
sour cream and not sweet cream,
continued Mr.. thinner. "There i!
an abundance, at times an over-sup
ply Of sweet milk and cream in At
lanta, but there is no possibility Of
an ever-supply Of sour cream, anG
sour cream, let me emphasize, will
give to the farmer a steady cash re
turn"
1t is Mr.. Zimmer's idea, as it j.
the idea of all persons familiar with
the dairy industry, to encourage the
| farmers of the community TO fec
their SKINNED milk to pigs anc
chickens, selling only their SOU
cream for butter making.
1T is very pretty business fol
| the farmer, and very satisfactor,
one, too" he explained, just as wal
explained to me at Selma, at Ash
burn and elsewhere. 1--WE pay t.
| the farmer the prevailing Chicag
price for his crean-a price that il
fixed and published daily. There cal
be no misunderstanding no dispute
The price of butter is published il
the papers Of Atlanta, and quota
tons are issued by wire based o.
the Elgin market. The farmer ca.
inform himself daily as to the RI
turns his cream will bring hin-re
! turns based on the butter fat cor
tent of his product-and he can as
certain the butter fat content by tn
use Of a Babcock tester"
AS at Ashburn and at Selma an
other points where creameries ar
operated, the price Of butter is reall
the price Of butter fat. On Friday
the Chicago market for butter wa
about 80 1-2c pound, and that wa
the price Of butter fat at the Be
mont creamery. The overrun col
trolls the earnings, or profit of tn
| creamery Mound of butter FL