Imperial Valley press., 1922-11-21
CENTRAL CREAMERY
One OF IMPERLAL'S
GREAT INDUS TRIES
Butter Factory Here Doing
More Business; Purest
Butter Made Here


in FL Centre consumes Il varying
amount of butter, but few ever stop
TO remember that the butter sold here
is purely valley product, made right
here in FL Centre, and fewer still are
aware Of the extreme care taken to in
sure the absolute purity of the product
# the plant of the California Central
Crcameries, which supplies nearly ali
the butter sold here.
A trip to the plant of the creamery
is a liberal education in itself, from
the time the cans filled with cream are
unloaded st the outside platform, until
| the finished product is cut and wrapped
bv an almost miraculous machine, and
hacked in cartons by nimble fingered
| girls in spotless white uniforms.
On arrival at the creamery, the cans
cont:, ming the cream which have been
! picked up in all parts of the valley by
| the companv's drivers, are placed on
| travelling belts, by which they are
| hauled to a platform, whore q sample OF
| the contents is removed from cacn can
| and tested for its percentage of butter
| fat. The cream is then dumped into
large vats and heated to approximately
100 degrees, the empty cans being ster
ilized with live steam and placed in
a separate room for future use.
Cream is Pasteurized
The next step brings the cream to a
pasteurizing machine, where it is heat
ed to 176 degrees and any impurities
that may exist, removed. Then it goes
through cooling process, and Is
brought down to Il temperature Of az
proximately so degrees, varying with
The temperature of the season and the
condition of feed. After the cooling
process. the cream is placed in large,
electrically driven churns; then il is
passed and repassed between huge
rollers until it has attained the desired
consistency. 1t is then saltcd down
and placed in large molds, later being
removed in the molds to a cold storage
room, where it is kept until required in
the packing room.
The packing room and the machine
used TO cut and pack the butter is nn-
doubtedly the most interesting spot IN
the entire plant. The sides of the
molds containing the butter are re
moved when brought into the pac king
room, the contents of the mold weigh
. ing approximately 900 pounds. Th
butter is sliced off in large slabs abou
two feet square and three inches thick
and is then fed into the machine
which again slices the slabs of butte
into 1G One-quarter pound prints, wrap
them in waxed paper which has beer
fed through brine solution, an,
shOves them out to the packing tabl
where they are placed, in cartons, fou
to a carton, by the packers.
.. This slicing and packing machine
the invention of the California CentrG
Creameries, being the third one in tn
country, and is the result of long e>
peiience and continual experiments b
the company engineers. 1t has II. ci
pacity of 1900 pounds daily and ha
greatly reduced the packing costs q
the company, rs well as making til
packing much more rapid and abst
lutely sanitary. From the time tn
cream is received in the plant, unit
the butter is packed in the cartons fc
distribution, it is absolutely untouche
by the human hand.
Packing Machine Great Aid
While proud of his entire establish
ment, r. B. Cary, manager of tn
creamery, is dOubly proud of this fac
and the performance of the packin
machine, which has helped solve fC
him problem that has always bee
oothersomc-getting the finished pr,
duet ready for marketing with III
same assurance OF absolute purity tha
the raw material received.
At present the California CcntrG
Ircameries employs about 40 nand
During the war, when the company ha
large contracts for the production q
milk sugar to be used by the navy fo
manufacturing smoke screens, tn
company employed about l25 pcopl,
incidentally, the assistance rcndcre
the government by the company
something that few FL Ccntlo pcopl
know of. Hundreds of tons of nil
sugar have been produced by the con
pany in answer TO the call of the GOV
ernment and few people would beiev
that such an inotfensive plant as
creamery could turn out product tha
was just as essential to the success q
the Allies as high power munitions.
Advertises Valley
The company maintains it's own +,
pair shops for its large fleet of trucks
tiiu ~ SildIl Village |
itself, having u complete machine shol
carpenter shop and other equipmcr
necessary to carry on large business
Naturally the business of the con
pany is to sell butter, and in doing thi
it affords considerable advertising fo
FL Centre and Imperial Valley. 1t ha
over 400 accounts between the vale
and FL Paso, sending out 500 stat.
ments each week, each of which carrie
the words "El Centre" and ''impcri;
Valley" in conspicuous places, and rt
quests for Golden State Butter, as tn
company's product is called,- come i
each day from all parts of the soutl
west. Each new request means IN
other person who is to become dclighte
with an Imperial Valley product an
thereby do his share toward proVidin
,eonstructive propaganda for FL Centr
and Imperial County.
The "rebels' in Mexico have foI
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