Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-08-22
CREAMERY PAYROLL
HERE is ALREADY
$4,000 ANNUALLY
Hundred and Five Cream Ship
peYs Paid Total of $7S7.5O
BY Concern This Week
48OO LBS. CREAM BOUGHT
This Quantity Manufactured
$3.50 Lbs. Butterfat, Largest
Weekly Output Yet

The farmer payroll established
by the Americas Creamery has al
ready passed the $4,000 annual
mark, according to figures disclos-
ed by l. E. Wilson, manager of the
concern. To be exact, .he cream
cry paid out total of $787.50 for
cream during this week, and these
payments, if sustained throughout
the year, would put $4O,950.0o into
The pockets of dairying farmers
here.
The two weeks just ended, accord
ing to Manager Wilson, was the best
yet experienced by the creamery
with a greater number of farmers
bringing or shipping in cream, and
a large quantity of butterfat manu-
featured and sold to customers OF
the creamery. Altogether, Mr..
Wilson said this afternoon, ne is
sued cream checks to 105 farmers
during this week, these checks rep
resenting cream purchases totalling
$500 pounds or 600 gallons, as some
people prefer to speak of cream in
quantity. This cream turned OUT
in manufactured butterfat 2250
lbs, all of which was quickly sold
to buyers in this market.
"This farmer payroll of $4,000
that has been established by the
Americas Creamery" said Manager
Wilson, is only a beginning. We
are prepared to more than double
this whenever and just as soon as
the farmers will bring in the cream.
The cash market for cream that the
creamery provides is SO elastic until
no limit exists to its expansion. We
are now selling our entire butter
output to local buyers, with one
or two exceptions. Just as soon as
The local market is we'll provided
with butter we are ready to extend
our sales to other communities. How
soon this will be necessary depends
altogether upon the farmers of this
section and the facility with which
they avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity to participate in the payroll.
''The city of Atlanta alone needs
three times as much butter as our
plant is now producing We are
constantly in receipt of orders for
butter from this and other markets
that we are at present unable to
handle. The quantity of cream re-
ceived won't justify our expanding
our present market, but we plan tc
do this just as soon as farmers put
in cattle sufficient to supply more
cream. Cotton money now coming
in probably will provide many cows
on Sumter farms. This would be
one of the best investments any
farmer could make at this time, and
any farmer who is interested should
drop in and talk this matter over
with us.
81 am told there are many hun
dreds of acres in the county suit
able for permanent pasturage that
might be made to bring in a sub
stantial revenue in cream checks,
if the farmers would put in the
cows. Not all the land here is suit
ed to raising cotton. 1t would not
be wise, perhaps, for a farmer to
put this cotton land into dairying
But there is plenty of land here
that will pay its greatest dividends
when used for dairy purposes. Let's
locate these lands and put the cows
on them just as soon os possible.
The creamery is ready to do its
part, and all that remains for the
farmers to put in the cows and
bring US the cream"