6 How ca Make Creamery Butter on the Farm 



True, the perfection of these large, efficient butter- 

 making outfits has made possible the establishment of 

 centralizers and creameries to which farmers can send 

 their cream to be made into butter and share in the 

 proceeds. But the big expenses of running such large 

 butter factories have to be paid out of the proceeds 

 from the sale of the butter, whether the plant is a pri- 

 vate enterprise or a co-operative one. We have man- 

 aged such creameries and we know how much it costs 

 to run one. We know that 'this cost takes a big 

 chunk out of the income the farmer should get from 

 his dairy herd, and could get if he could buy a scien- 

 tific buttermaking machine suitable to his needs and 

 to his pocketbook and could acquire the knowledge of 

 the methods that would enable him to make butter of 

 the highest quality in that machine. 



The Minnetonna Company has solved the first 

 problem they have furnished the machine. We have 

 attempted to supply, in this book, the second req- 

 uisite the "know how." We have endeavored to 

 put into plain, practical, easy-to-follow directions, the 

 essential scientific buttermaking knowledge that we 

 have acquired in our quarter-century experience as 

 buttermakers and dairy experts. 



If this book helps any of the farmers who receive it 

 to increase their net cash income from their cows by 

 enabling them to make their cream into high-grade 

 butter at home, or shows farmers who are already 

 making butter how to make better and more profitable 

 butter, with less labor, or encourages farmers who 

 have a few or no cows to open up an entirely new 

 source of income by starting a neighborhood cream- 

 ery, we shall feel amply repaid for the time and labor 

 spent in preparing this volume. 



We shall also be glad to have any reader ask us for 

 further explanation of any part that is not perfectly 

 clear, or to ask us for help in solving any buttermak- 

 ing problem. A 



THE AUTHORS. 



