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An accounting system for creamery use has been formulated, so as 

 to meet the difficulties of keeping accounts when the work includes 

 side lines, such as ice-cream making, handling eggs, feeding hogs, and 

 selling cream. 



An experimental creamery has been established at Grove City, Pa., 

 in cooperation with the commercial club of that city, and with the 

 support of the farmers of the vicinity. A local company furnishes 

 the building and equipment and handles the finances, the work being 

 under the direction of the Dairy Division. As the new building 

 could not be finished before July, a temporary creamery was fitted up 

 and operations were begun May 3. 



Special assistance has been given to creamery work in a number of 

 localities. A campaign among the patrons of the creamery at Brook- 

 lyn, Iowa, to encourage the planting of alfalfa for feed, resulted in 

 75 acres being sown in the fall of 1914. A cow-testing association 

 also was organized. At Mora, Minn., assistance was given in prepar- 

 ing balanced rations and in the erection of 22 silos. Several patrons 

 have begun keeping herd records. In connection with the Waynes- 

 boro, Va., cooperative creamery two breeding associations have been 

 formed, one Guernsey and one Holstein. This creamery is now in a 

 very prosperous condition, having made as high as 30,000 pounds of 

 butter a month. It has enlarged its plant in accordance with plans 

 from the Dairy Division. The cooperative creamery at Eatonton, 

 Ga., was transformed from an insanitary, poorly equipped plant to 

 a modern, well-equipped, sanitary creamery, with a suitable system 

 of accounting. A creamery at Chapel Hill, Tenn., built by pro- 

 moters at a cost of twice its value, was developed from a state of 

 inactivity into a prosperous creamery, making 2,500 pounds of 

 butter a week. 



BUTTEE MARKETING. 



The investigation of butter marketing is done in cooperation with 

 the Office of Markets and Rural Organization of the department. 

 This work receives the service of one man from the Dairy Division. 

 About 100 creameries were visited in Minnesota, and net prices were 

 compared with the quality of the product. Two weeks were spent in 

 studying market practices in Chicago, learning the margin of profit 

 on butter handled by various dealers, the relationship between grades 

 and prices, the sources of butter supply, etc. Similar investigations 

 were made in New York, Philadelphia, St. Paul, and Minneapolis. 

 A trip was made through the South to investigate the present facil- 

 ities for marketing dairy products, and to study the difficulties in 

 marketing local butter as compared with that brought from the 

 North. 



CHEESE MANUFACTURE. 



Correspondence was maintained with a large number of cheese 

 factories, and reports for 1914 were received from factories producing 

 an aggregate of over 65,000,000 pounds. 



Following an investigation by a representative of the Dairy Di- 

 vision into the possibilities o<f starting a cheese industry in the moun- 

 tains of North Carolina, two cooperative factories were started, one 



