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elusive of land; water privileges, drains, and the furniture 

 all included would take $1,200 to $1,300 more. The 

 main building is forty-five feet long and twenty-five feet 

 wide ; the addition is twenty-five feet long and seventeen 

 feet wide. The basement is brick, with walls twelve 

 inches thick and eleven feet high ; the upper part is of 

 frame, and eight feet high to the plates. In most local- 

 ities in the South, and many places in the North and 

 West, the building may be put up for much less money. 

 In the Southern States a very good and useful building 

 of this size may be finished for $1,000, and furnished for 

 $1,200 more. The cost of the furniture, of course, de- 

 pends upon its completeness and kind, and the above 

 estimate includes the very best and most improved and 

 effective apparatus. This creamery uses the cream of 

 400 cows, and 2,000 to 2,500 pounds of butter are made 

 weekly, according to the season. This is quite as large 

 a product as is consistent with the most profit. It is 

 one of the interesting facts in regard to creameries, that 

 the butter sells for fully one-third more than can be pro- 

 cured for that made in* small dairies, which gives the 

 patrons a great advantage in addition to the saving of 

 labor. The work done in this creamery in 1886 was as 

 follows: 



Buttermade, pounds. 83,147 



Total sales .'....$ 27,125 



Paid to farmers 23,158 



Expenses - 4,074 



Cost of making a pound of butter 41/2 cts 



EXPENSES. 



Wages of butter makers $1,075 00 



Gathering cream 1,873 85 



Delivering butter to market 1,045 00 



Insurance, taxes, and pastui*age - 254 36 



Coalandsalt 183 45 



Management and small expenses 642 84 



The system of gathering yie cream is as follows: Every 

 patron uses the Cooley or submerged system milk pails, 

 each holding eighteen quarts of milk. These are kept 



