MANAGEMENT OF DAIRY 

 PLANTS 



CHAPTER I 

 PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF CONDITIONS 



A CREAMERY may be owned and controlled by an individual, 

 a closed stock company, or it may be controlled by the people 

 of the entire community; but regardless of its prospective form 

 of organization, certain factors which will largely determine the 

 success or failure of the enterprise should be considered in its 

 undertaking. These are: 



1. Nature of business. 



2. Raw material available. 



3. Competition. 



4. Amount of money required. 



5. Banking facilities. 



6. Amount of rural business handled by the town. 



7. Attitude of the community toward the undertaking. 



8. Railroad facilities. 



9. Suitability of site and building. 

 10. Competence in the manager. 



Nature of Business. Formerly the creamery business was 

 confined strictly to butter making, but now several side lines 

 are often included, such as ice cream making and cheese making. 

 A creamery receiving milk, either exclusively or in part, may 

 find it advantageous to manufacture cheese from all or from a 

 portion of it. Some creameries handle eggs at a profit. It is 

 even claimed that a laundry may be operated profitably in con- 

 nection with a creamery. It may be operated at a profit; but, 

 for sanitary reasons, a laundry seems hardly proper as a side 



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