284 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Creameries and Milk Depots. 



Appended we give a revised list of the principal cream- 

 eries and milk depots owned and operated by Massachusetts 

 individuals and corporations. There are in this State, in 

 addition to these, a number of distributing plants for cream- 

 eries owned and operated in other States. For instance, the 

 Maine Creamery Company of Bangor, Me., has offices at 12 

 Foster Wharf, Boston. The Turner Centre Creamery of 

 Auburn, Me., lias distributing houses in Boston, Worcester, 

 Taunton and Lowell, and ships to these points butter, cream, 

 and to one at least skimmed milk. 1 The New England 

 Creamery of Livermore Falls, Me., distributes through a 

 Massachusetts company of the same name in Everett, which 

 also distributes the " Hampden Creamery "goods. The Lyn- 

 donville Creamery of Lyndonville, Vt., has a plant at Water- 

 town, from which it distributes milk, cream and butter. J. 

 L. Humphrey, Jr., has four plants, one each in New Bed- 

 ford, Fall River, Taunton and Brockton, for the distribution 

 of butter and renovated butter from his Iowa creameries. 

 The Armours, Swifts, Hammonds, Morrises and other large 

 packing houses, all representing western-made goods, dis- 

 tribute quantities of butter and renovated butter from their 

 numerous establishments scattered over the State. Some of 

 these also put out oleomargarine. Besides these, there is a 

 considerable number of creamery companies and so-called 

 creameries which buy their stock of producers in this and 

 other States. These in the aggregate do a large business. 

 Other private dairies or creameries also have town offices, 

 restaurants, etc. The above is difficult of strict classifica- 

 tion. 



A number of dairies are producing milk and cream under 

 conditions and of a quality which command a price higher 

 than that ruling the general market, and at least two are 

 selling certified milk. 



i Pasteurized skimmed milk .•mil cream are put together in the proper proportions 

 required for standard milk, in the Iioston plant, and the milk thus made is placed 

 upon the market. 



