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similarly successful, pay their patrons nearly as much for the cream 

 alone as ' the wholesale market pays for whole milk. Besides this, 

 the farmer has the skim milk to feed or sell, and if a stockholder in 

 the creamery he gets 5 or 6 per cent, interest on the stock. The fol- 

 lowing is a statement of the business of this factory for 1888 : 



Ipswich, Massachusetts, Creamery. 



The White Mountain Creamery, at Littleton, N. H. , has a build- 

 ing 22 by 52 feet, with studs 14 feet high. The cellar is 9 feet, with 

 a stone wall, except at the left-hand end, which contains the ice- 

 house. The L contains the engine, boiler, sinks, etc. The main floor 

 is divided into six rooms, much in the same style as the model. The 

 refrigerator in this creamery is specially noticeable. In the parti- 

 tion which forms the front wall to the refrigerator, between the re- 

 frigerator and the work-room, there are eighteen small doors, which 

 open into as many compartments, 18 inches wide, 30 inches deep, 10 

 inches high. In each of these are five hard-wood rollers that ex- 

 tend across the compartment. These rollers permit the boards to be 

 put in and taken out easily. The print butter is placed on these boards 

 for cooling and storage until packed in the cases for shipping. Below 

 these compartments are four larger openings through which the bowls 

 of butter are put into the refrigerator for cooling after the first 

 working. It can readily be seen that these conveniences save the 

 butter maker many steps and much labor. This is a new creamery 

 that began operations in May, 1888. It is located among the White 

 Mountains of northern New Hampshire, where it has been claimed 

 the cream-gathering system could not work. The business done is 

 shown in the following statement : 



In June received 67,208 spaces of cream and paid 3 cents per space. 

 In July received 70,718^ spaces of cream and paid 2i cents per space. 

 In August received 49,972^ spaces of cream and paid 8 cents per space. 

 In September received 42,504| spaces of cream and paid 3 cents per space. 

 In October received 38,269^ spaces of cream and paid 3 cents per space. 



There was a small run in November, for which 3 cents per space 

 of cream received was paid. The creamery began with forty-three 

 patrons, and within three weeks increased to seventy-five, making be- 

 tween 400 and 500 pounds of butter daily. The illustrations show a 

 number of points of interest in this factory. 



