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relieve the women of the household from this task, and the start- 

 ing of a creamery in a community usually has no stronger ad- 

 vocates than the farmers' wives and daughters. 



630. Monthly Cash Payment. From a business standpoint 

 the creamery is beneficial because of the monthly cash income 

 which it brings to each patron. A definite amount of cash in 

 hand at regular intervals places the farmer in a position to plan 

 his work advantageously, and his whole family is cheered by the 

 anticipation and the realization of the benefits from the monthly 

 milk or crearn check 



II. Development of the Creamery. 



631. The creamery as commonly referred to at the present 

 time is a modern institution. In the past butter was made in a 

 room or small building at the farm, where milk was kept and all 

 kinds of dairy work was done. The creamery now takes the 

 place of the farm dairy, and is equipped with machinery and ap- 

 paratus for making butter of the milk and cream brought to it 

 by a number of farmers. 



632. Amount of Butter Made in Creameries. The first 

 American creameries were built in New York state between 

 1860 and 1870. The industry gradually spread to the West, until 

 at the present time there are about 10,000 in the United States. 

 Even now, however, only a little over one-third of the total 

 amount of butter made in the United States is creamery butter. 

 According to the United States census of 1900, there was made 

 in the United States 1,492,700,000 pounds of butter; only 420,- 

 950,000 pounds of .which was creamery butter, while 1,070,700,000 

 pounds was made on the farm. 



633. In some parts of the United States the creamery in- 

 dustry is growing rapidly at the present time, and the amount 

 of butter made in these factories will undoubtedly continue to 

 increase in the future. A movement has already begun among 

 creamery patrons towards the improvement of their herds by 

 keeping a record of the performance of each cow and disposing of 

 the unprofitable ones. This kind of work will not only make 



