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A PLEA FOR BETTER BUILDINGS. 



It cannot be said that very many creameries are built so 

 as to make it possible to keep them clean bacteriologically 

 clean or, if you please dairyologically clean. 



I know I shall incur the criticism of those men, who, at 

 their own risk, build creameries, so to say, on the suffrage 

 of the farmers. These may at any time see the farmers build 

 one in opposition. 



Nor do I deny the justice of such criticism, calling my 

 demand for creameries similar to the German one shown as 

 an unpractical, unbusinesslike proposal, when looked at from 

 their standpoint. 



Yet I shall raise my voice and use my pen as long as I 

 live for better creamery and cheese factory milk shipping 

 stations and city milk depot buildings, and challenge any 

 criticism if made from the standpoint of the permanent interest 

 of the milk producers. 



There is a great cry against expensive creameries, but 

 that has been because these buildings were not better than 

 the cheap ones, yet the objection alw r ays remains against the 

 increased interest on money invested. 



Let us investigate this question a little. In this country 

 the interest is higher than in Europe, and hence I shall not 

 challenge the claim that we can afford to put up a cheap 

 w r ooden building for, let us say $3,000, for a 5,000-fb. cream- 

 ery and rebuild it when rotten for the difference in the interest 

 on a solid brick building costing double the money. 



I shall not challenge this, I say, though there may be 

 localities where the difference would not be great enough to 

 do it, and though certainly fire insurance ought to be lower in 

 the latter case. 



But I am not only asking for a brick building, I want it 

 finished somewhat in the style of the illustration. / want a 

 $10,000 building ichere there is now a $3,000 one. 



The interest account will thus be charged with say 6 per 

 cent on $7,000 extra, or $420. But this will hardly be ] cent 

 per pound of butter. 



Leaving out the labor saved in keeping such a cream- 

 ery clean, I claim that the simple moral effect on the men 

 working in such a creamery will easily increase the value of 

 the butter } cent per pound. Nor is the claim "theory" but 



