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REPORT OP THE SCOTTISH COMMISSION 



All creameries are more or less alike. We do not attempt to 

 give a detailed description of any one. We think it preferable to 

 give a general description applicable to most of them. 



Erection of Creameries 



Many of the original creameries were seriously hampered by 

 mistakes made at the outset. The sites chosen were not ideal. 

 In most districts a successful movement of this kind depends on 

 the energy of one or two individuals. If a creamery is to be 

 erected, these men naturally wish it to be as near their own farms 

 as possible. The consequence was that those conducting the 



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negotiations often influenced others to erect a creamery on a site 

 which, had better counsel prevailed, never would have been 

 chosen. A mistake of this kind is not easily rectified, for stone 

 and lime buildings cannot be moved from one place to another, 

 and the enormity of the mistake is not realised until it is too late. 

 In a few instances, old buildings which had been standing empty 

 had been utilised. Inadequate machinery was crushed into them 

 at comparatively small cost, and the promoters fancied they had 

 done a good stroke of business. Sometimes insufficient provision 

 was made for the supply or storage of water, and little or no 

 attention was paid to the manner in which sewage was to be 

 disposed of. The Ballyrashane Creamery, which was erected in 

 1897, is said to have spent £1000 in schemes of sewage disposal. 



The result of this haphazard method of procedure was detri- 

 mental. In one case, a creamery was not sufficiently central ; in 

 another it was badly supplied with water ; in a third there was no 

 room for extension ; in a fourth the disposal of the sewage was 



