ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII 447 



FRIDAY MORNING, 10:15. 



Mr. Stephenson : You will please come to order. The first num- 

 ber on our program this morning is an address by Prof. M. Mor- 

 tensen of Ames on "Creamery Construction." 



CREAMERY CONSTRUCTION. 



PROF. M. MOKTEXSEX, AMES, IOWA. 



As our convention is held at Waterloo it is appropriate to remind 

 you that we have a creamery close to Waterloo that has the distinction 

 of "being the first creamery in the United States in which a cream separa- 

 tor was operated. This pioneer creamery was operated by Jeppe Slifs- 

 gaard and his son Truel, and is known as the Fredsville creamery. 



As the cream separator had just been invented, Jeppe Slifsgaard when 

 he came to this country from Denmark in July, 1882 brought one with 

 him. This separator was kept at the custom house in New York for 

 two months, as the officers in charge were unable to decide as to whether 

 this peculiar machine was constructed from steel or from iron. They 

 finally decided that it was constructed from steel and fixed the duty at 

 $93. 



For introducing the cream separator the United States 'the name 

 Slifsgaard will long be remembered by the dairymen of our country. 



If we, today, will make a comparison between the creamery in which 

 the first cream separator was operated and our modern country creamery, 

 we will not find the improvement which we should expect. The machin- 

 ery has been improved, we must admit that the manufacturers have kept 

 pace with the times, but the building which is put up as a shelter over 

 this expensive machinery is often much inferior. We have too many 

 frame structures erected for creamery buildings. Too much money is 

 therefore lost on account of fire. 



When a creamery is erected in the prominent dairy countries of Europe 

 the question is not asked, what is the cost, it is what kind of a creamery 

 shall we build and what kind of equipment shall we install in order that 

 we may be enabled to do the most efficient work at the lowest cost. We, 

 in this country, are so apt to ask what will it cost without considering 

 what we will receive in return. Looking over the report of the Swedish 

 Co-operative Creameries for the year 1907, we find that in one district 

 in which they have 51 creameries the average cost amounted to $4,260. 

 If we consider that lafoor and material in that country are considerably 

 cheaper than here, we can safely estimate that a creamery building similar 

 to those built in Denmark and Sweden if erected in this country would 

 cost close to $5,000 or $6,000. 



These are large brick buildings constructed principally with the view 

 of efficiency and sanitation and when the building has been constructed 

 and the machinery installed, then they consider the outside appearances. 



