The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-09-14
Butter Making
Plant For Sumter
Increment For Enlargement
sf Sumter Creamery Start
ad by Bankers and Bust
ness Men

ness Men
The Sumter Chamber of Com
nerce. the Young Mems Business
League Of Sumter, the Chamber Of
Commerce committee on market
ius and diyersifcation of farm
proaucts Belser. chairman,
aa5 County Agent j. F. Williams
W aItempt, with the cooperation
qthe Sumter Creamery company
stoekhofders to establish in con-
neenon with the Sumter Creamery
aebSteer making creamery with a
daily capacity OF two thousand
psnndas..
yesterday meeting of the
:st0ekholders Of the Sumter Cream
ery company with a number Of
bankers and other business men Of
Sumter was held at the Sumter
Chamber of Commerce. Mr.. P. NJ.
BITS, president of the Sumter
Gzsamery company presided. DR..
S. Booth, president of the Sum
ter, Chamber of Commerce and
Seeretary. Reardon, Chairman r.
Be1ser of the Chamber Of Com
SgSsrce marketing and crop diversi-
fcatiDn committee, and County
Asent Frank Williams, repre-
sented the organization side of the
spypposition, while Messrs. Neil
a0sDonnei, president of the First
National Bank; C. G. Rowland.
PRESIDENT Of the National Bank Of
S0Hth. Carolina, and Mr. r. a.
Byadham, president of the Com
mareial Bank and Trust company,
represented the banking interests
Ssenater. There were number
0ESothers present, as stockholders
a the Creamery company.
ar. Pitts said that the farmers
saeu1d be guaranteed that there
viii be a place for them to sell
tier butter-fat if they went to the
expense Of buying dairy cattle as
Eeature of the crop diversiication
plans sof the county. The Sumter
Creamery company is an establish
ed edenterprsse-and the directors
thereof believe that this plant car,
with necessary additions of ma
clSznery for making butter, be made
very useful enterprise for the
sarInerss OF Sumter and several ad-
joining counties.
gwaS the unanimous sentiment
so the meeting that it would be a
good proposition to Increase the
sanifaf stock of the Sumter Cream
cry about eight or ten thousand
dollars to enable the installation Of
snf1cient cold storage, butter max
ing, and other machinery.
Also TO educate the farmers to
The value Of selling the butter-fat
for butter making, rather than
hoping TO get. big prices per gallon
for mix Mr.. r. a. Bradham said
that the Young Mems Business
Eeague VIII be GLAD to appoint a
SPECIAL committee to help out IN
this matter as this league had al
geady taken this matter under con-
SideFaf5op or rather had secured
duSasnaatien about a creamery.
SG6airnassn r. B. Belser said that
his committee with County Agent
Williams will take, UP the matter
efappointing school district COM
sEAttees to see about having at least
ac5ent cows to supply the two
thousand. pound daily capacity. for
he butter making department Of
the present creamery, and to call
mass meeting at Sumter about
the matter of how many farmers
viii supply the necessary butter
4faE Mr.. Neil O'DQnneH took. the,
baill by the horns, after a lot Of
3a!k about bulls and cows had been
haaulged in by announcing that he
would. donate Simon pure Guern-
Sey bull for the proposed bull as
seciatien, and which> Mr.. r. N.
Cooper thought would cost about
two hundred dollars. It was in
ttnated BY one OF the gentlemen
present that the :. school district
thar sends the largest number of
pTospectfve butter fat producers
will get the bull.
sMr. C. w. Schmoke, dairy spec
8ialist Of. Clemson College was pres
ent by request of the Creamery.
company, and gave very inter
sesting and. instructive talk show
ing that the dairy business in con-
nection with other crop diversified
ton is a splendid thing for this
section Of South Carolina. He said
swe shaye the finest all the year
around climate, the most fertile of
lands for producing all kinds Of
necessary cattle feed to produce
SbHtter-fat at the, lowest possible
cost, that we have the markets for
sau and more butter than will be
produced IN this and several conn-
ties, that the local, demand alone,
not to count the out Of state ship
ments that can be made, guaran-
tee, with proper management on
the farm, the right kind of feed
ing, care and work, that every
tEarmer with the right breed of
scows can make good money sell
Ling butter-fat, not milk to the
&proposed butter making plant.
4 Mr.. Schmoke seemed very, favor
EabIy Impressed with the Sumter,
Lee, Clarendon and other counties
|sas good places for the dairy busi-
ness and for enriching the. soil
and cutting down fertilizer bills by
going into the dairy. business on
the farm.
Mr.. r. NJ. Cooper, the proprie-
tor of the well-known Wisacky
dairy and live stock farm was pres
seat by special invitation and con-
Srnad IL, a short hut Satisfact nrY