Why It Pays to Make Butter on the Farm 15 



Neighborhood Creamery. 



Another way to make the Minnetonna profitable to 

 you, no matter how little cream you have to sell, is to 

 start a neighborhood or community creamery, run- 

 ning it on the same plan that the large co-operative 

 creameries are run. Get your neighbors to join you in 

 sharing the costs, interest and depreciation on a Min- 

 netonna Home Creamery. Suggest that you or who- 

 ever operates the machine be paid for their time and 

 labor, the same as a co-operative creamery pays a sal- 

 ary to its buttermaker. Then each member will be 

 paid his share from the sale of the butter according to 

 the amount of cream he has brought in. If you do 

 not clearly understand this plan on which co-operative 

 creameries are managed, we shall be glad to explain 

 it further. 



The neighborhood creamery idea seems to be 

 spreading all over the country. It has been mentioned 

 again and again in letters that come to our office. 

 Here, for instance, is an extract from a letter signed 

 by the dairy husbandman in the employ of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Hus- 

 bandry, at Auburn, Alabama. 



"We have five small creameries in Alabama and a 

 number of localities that wish to have a centrally lo- 

 cated farmer buy a small engine and churn and churn 

 the cream for the neighborhood. For this purpose I 

 think your outfit would be very well suited." 



The expenses of a small neighborhood creamery are 

 much less than those of a large creamery, even in pro- 

 portion to the amount of cream and butter handled. 

 The profits to the members of such a community 

 creamery are much larger. 



