50 DAIRYING 



THE CREAMERY INDUSTRY. 

 I. Benefits of a Creamery to Farmers. 



624. A Better Price for Butter. In many farming communi- 

 ties there are often found localities where the butter made on 

 one farm is selling for ten cents, while that from the adjoining 

 farm brings twenty cents per pound. This difference in price 

 may be continuous throughout the year, even though the cows 

 and the feed are of about the same quality on both farms. When 

 a creamery is established in such a community, the farm on 

 which poor butter is made will naturally receive more benefit 

 from the factory than the one which supplies private customers 

 at fancy prices. The latter class of farmers will, however, be 

 glad to patronize the creamery, because they will continue to 

 receive the highest market price for their butter without the 

 trouble of making it. The reason for this is apparent. All the 

 principles of manufacturing, such as reducing expense and waste, 

 by operating one factory instead of several, apply to the cream- 

 ery as well as to other manufactories. 



625. Cost of Making Butter Reduced. The creamery sub- 

 stitutes one churn and other dairy utensils for the fifty or more 

 farm churns. This is an enormous saving, as the time of one or 

 more men at a creamery and one fire under the boiler is much 

 more economical than the time and. fuel used at each of the 

 farms in making the same amount of butter. There is also much 

 less waste by the factory operations than is the case when the 

 fifty or more lots of butter are made at the fifty farms. This 

 saving of both cream and butter, which is necessarily lost by 

 distributing it over fifty or more small cans, vats, and churns, 

 is shared by all the patrons. The difference in the expense and 

 amount of energy used in operating a creamery as compared 

 with the usual number of farm dairies which it supplants may be 

 illustrated by the contrast in economy of moving one thousand 

 people across a river by row boats as compared with trans- 

 porting them by means of one steamer. The work is much more 

 economically, quickly, and safely done by the steamer than by 

 the row boats ; and when the comfort of the one thousand people 

 is considered the two methods of transportation are not in the 



