120 CANADIAN DAIRYING. 



CREAM-GATHERING <P5. WHOLE MILK CREAMERIES. 



The relative merits of whole milk and cream- 

 gathering creameries has been much discussed. The 

 latter form of creamery is well adapted for a small 

 cow population, scattered over a considerable extent 

 of territory, and where the roads are not suitable for 

 hauling heavy loads of milk. The chief advantages 

 of the cream-gathering system are : 



1. It saves the cost of hauling the whole milk to 

 the creamery and the skim-milk back to the farm. 



2. The patrons have, as a rule, a better quality of 

 skim-milk on the farm for their stock. 



3. It costs less for a building, for machinery, and 

 for labor to manufacture the butter. 



4. A much wider territory can be covered by one 

 creamery under this system. With proper railway 

 facilities there is scarcely a limit to the extension of 

 the creamery's operations. This ensures a large 

 quantity of butter which is uniform in quality, though 

 the quality may not be so high as whole milk creamery 

 butter. 



The chief disadvantages of the system are : 



1. The cream is often spoiled before it reaches the 

 creamery, owing to defective methods of caring for it 

 on the farm, or because it is delivered at the creamery 

 once or twice a week instead of daily, as it should be. 



2. This results in an inferior quality of butter, 

 which is the chief weakness of the cream-gathering 

 method of conducting creameries. The experience 

 of nearly every country which has adopted this system 

 has been the same. There is no reason why good 



