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and take the risk of patrons leaving. For this reason I am in 

 favor of the farmers always putting up at least the building and 

 then letting it with or without machinery, if they don't want to 

 run it themselves. The rent should depend on price paid for 

 the milk and according to the quantity of milk delivered and be 

 free if the average is less than 3,000 Ibs. 



A similar system obtained in Kansas and Nebraska, where 

 large companies built and equipped large central creameries, and 

 then offered to put up skim stations all around for a certain 

 sum. The farmers agreed to sell their cream and pay for the 

 skim station in that way, and if, after a certain time, they did 

 not want to sell cream any more, they owned the building and 

 might change it to a creamery. 



This system has, in the past six years, to a great extent, been 

 superseded by the readoption of the gathered cream system in a 

 modified form. 



GATHERED CREAM CREAMERIES. 



The most extensive creamery system used before the advent 

 of separators was the gathered cream system, where a "churn 

 station" was erected and teams sent out in all directions to gather 

 up the cream raised by shallow or by deep-setting under all kinds 

 of conditions. 



(Fig. 88) 



Only in exceptional cases was the cream paid for according to 

 grade, and the result was anything but satisfactory. The cream- 

 ery owners were, as a rule, satisfied as long as they got their 



