BUILDING A CREAMERY.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2686, 16 November 1882, Page 4

BUILDING A CREAMERY.

The “ Ohio Farmer” gives the following statement from a Western Reserve Ohio Dairyman, in relation to creameries and the plan of building and operating them : He says the creamery system may be divided into about three different plans of operations, all having the one general result of a high quality of butter. The first is the patron plan, by which all patrons join a stock company, each patron buying one or more share of stock, the proceeds of which go toward the erection and furnishing of tue creamery. Legal intoroatjis allowed upon tl- ;se shares, and is taken from the gross receipts and paid to the shareholder each throe months. Each patron thus becomes not only responsible for the expense of carrying on the creamery, hut shares likewise in its losses. Prom IGOOdols to IflOOdols will build and equip a creamery for 500 cows, with engine, boiler, churns, worker, cold storage, and a building 30ft by 40ft. The cans for the building will belong to the patrons, who need a can cos ling not far from 2dols for each two cows. The cream gatherer is hired to gather the cream, and furnishes his own team. The cost of making butter ready for market, including all help, gathering, interest on stock, &c., will not exceed one and one-fourth cents, per pound for a creamery of 500 cows. Another plan is for some enterprising individual to erect and equip a creamery, gather the cream, and either buy the cream at an agreed-upon price for the season, or a scale of prices somewhat in accord with the market rates for butter. The milk will be set in cans alike, and cared for upon an agreed-upon plan, and checks will be given by the cream-gatherer each day, and cashed upon appointed days. Some creameries vary this plan a little by givingtho creamery owner so much per pound for gathering the cream, making the butter and packing it ready for the market—a elected by the patrons selling the butter, the same as is the rule in patron cheese factories.

Another plan, and probably tho most equitable of all, is for a man to build and equip a factory, furnish cans to the patrons, and conduct the business as suits his own ideas. The patrons pay a yearly rental of about 25 cents each for the cans. Tho price of an inch of cream, which is rated as a pound of butter, is based upon the best quotations of creamery butter in Now York, or Elgin, 111. The average price of at pound of butter for any month is paid for an inch of cream, minus 5 cents. If butter is selling in New York at forty-eight cents per pound, tho price of an inch of cream would be fortythree cents, or if selling at twenty cents, the cream would sell at fifteen cents ; but the average of a year will not vary much from thirty cents. This gives tho maker a margin of five cents per pound for making and shipping, and yet protects both parties. Besi I is tho sale of the cream, tho skimmed milk is thus made available for feeding calves and pigs, and if judiciously fed, is worth at least four cents per gallon.

After a trial lasting over a year of the Brush electric light, the North British Eailway Company have resolved on an important extension of the system, under which the accesses to the Waverley station, Edinburgh, aud all the platforms will henceforth be lighted by electricity, as was some time ago stated in these columns. Bortobello station, and its extensive goods loading depot, are also to bo lighted with electricity on a different system, but at gas rates.