The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-23
BIRMINGHAM WILL TAKE ALL CREAM
 FARMERS OFFER
Creamery Capacity Three Times in Excess of Butter fat Shipments Reach
 ing District

I Ld4A , men WHO nave been SGnulHG s
 outterfat to Birmingham creameries and those contemplating ooing so are
 officially advised by a special com mittee making investigation of the situation of two outstanding facts;
 First-Instead of there being sur [ plus of bptterfat offered the Rirming
 ham creameries and shipped to this market, present facilities would permit the handling of from three 10 I four times the volume of cream now i coming in"
 l seeondly-That cash payment twice q month will be made for all butter fat shipped to Birmingham.
 1 Third-That as good quality of butter as is made anywhere can oe made and is made in Birmingham and that Birmingham people. every thing being equal. will give preference to a Birmingham product.
 1 This committee is composed of J. E. MeCutcheon of the International Harvester company. Judge J. T. Stokeley and Dr. A. W. Bell They were named by the agricultural com- mittee of the Chamber of Commerce ! to investigate an alleged crucial sit uation caused by one Birmingham creamery going out of the putterfat ] game to devote it's entire activities to the milk trade. It has been dis- covered that no such situation had developed. but that, on the contrary. there Is market for several times ! the butterfat being offered here.
 Farmers are urged to expand their butterfat activities with assurance 1 that Birmingham will care for their | offerings. The report in part fol- lows:
 Committee's Report We have spent great deal Of time in an effort to ascertain the reat conditions and are very glad to report that we find a ready market in Birmingham at the present time not only for all the butterfat that 1 Las heretofore been shipped, but for a greatly increased volume
 l James, Kidd, manager of the Bir- mingham Creamery company, ad- | vises your committee that his firm has not heretofore specialized on 1 butter making. but he assures us that with the opportunity at present afforded that he is quite willing to Eegin butter making on a large scS>s and with this end in View has just closed a satisfactory arrangement through the Mississippi A. X NJ col- lege for an experienced and thoroughly competent butter maker who will report at his plant almost mediately and, that the Birming- ham Creamehy is today in position to take at least 2,500 pounds, of butter fat per week and with the further assurance that pay checks will be issued promptly on the first and Fifteenth of each month covering shipments received.
 Messrs. Anderson and Hansen, who own the controlling stock of the Central Milk company assure us that they at all times have been in po sition to accept all the butterfat that has been shipped to this market. | They have new and up-to-date equip ment, have had long years of ex perfence as butter makers and we are advised that with present equip ment and facilities that they could turn out in excess of 15,00o pounds Of butter per week. They likswise as- sure your committee that they can issue pay checks promptly on the first and fifteenth day of each month covering all butterfat shipments made to them.
 Your committee is decidedly of the opinion that instead of surplus quantity of butterfat being present l ly shipped to this market, that present facilities would permit the handling of from three to four times the volume of cream, and we suggest that the Chamber of Commerce re- quest a continuation of the publicity that has been so kindly given by the 1 Birmingham press to acquaint present. cream shippers of this fact and to suggest to- each community 1 that the business be still further de- 1 veloped by inducing the farmers to begin milking cows, separating the cream and shipping 1t to this market. and furthermore. that the press make an appeal to the citizenship of Birmingham to ask for and demand i Birmingham- made butter.
 There is no question but that an equal quality of creamery butter can be made here in Birmingham as IS made in any state of the union, and ] this being true, your committee feels confident that everything being equal Birmingham people will give preference to a Birmingham pro- duct"