lO MANAGEMENT OF DAIRY PLANTS 



be taken care of from the back part of the creamery through 

 the alley. 



Competence of the Manager. — Managers competent to 

 operate a large creamery are scarce. The successful manager 

 should have had general business experience, and preference 

 should be given to one "who has also had practical creamery ex- 

 perience. A company should thoroughly investigate the past 

 record of the man under consideration for this position. 



The manager should be honest and broad-minded. He should 

 be fair in his dealings with everybody. The manager should be 

 clean in habits. One who is addicted to liquor cannot be trusted 

 at all times nor can he render his employers the best service. 



The creamery manager should have a discerninJg mind. He 

 must be able to judge the men with whom he has business deal- 

 ings and also the men he employs. He should recognize the 

 limitations as well as the possibilities of his employees. 



He should be an organizer. He must be able not only to es- 

 tablish a superior working system in factory, field, and office, 

 but along with this he must also organize a working force which 

 can carry out his ideas without friction, each member becoming 

 a useful link in the entire chain of the organization. He should 

 be a good executive. As such he must be a man of punctuality 

 and perseverance, able to gain the confidence of his employees, 

 and at the same time obtain efficient and economic service from 

 them. 



He should have had at least a fair technical training in the 

 manufacture of those products which his factory is to handle. 



He shoujd be a money-maker. The success of a business 

 enterprise is largely measured by its financial success. A man 

 that can be expected to make money for the company is sup- 

 posed to be able to save for himself. Nevertheless, some men 

 do make money for their employers while spending their own 

 earnings as soon as received. The ability of a man to save is} 

 however, a good guide when engaging a creamery manager. 



