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Show HOME CREAMERIES. Their Establishment , is Strongly Urged. VALUABLE HINTS TO OWNERS. "Every Farmer Who Could Feed Five or Six Cows Could Keep Them at a Great Profit." The Deseret News urges the erection erec-tion of more creameries in Utah. It also urges co-operation in our farming districts, and Kays: "The milk from farm houses could be received from the farmers, either by collection in the' creamery's cream-ery's cans and wagons from the several places, or by delivery from each farmer. Tests as to quality can be made at the factory, so that each farmer will receive credit for full value in richness as well as in bulk, and by the manufacture of butter in the Dest ana most economical econom-ical manner, greater profits can be realized and a better article supplied sup-plied for the market." That voices our sentiment. In 1 some of the northern countries of : Europe, in 'Holland, Denmark and portions of Germany, creameries are run on the co-operative plan. Three times a day, morning, noon and night, the milk wagons run to the different farm houses, prompt as clock work, and gather the milk for the creameries. The machinery is first-class, and the results attained at-tained exceed the gains of the farmer who works up his own milk. The two modes have been tried side by side until the farmer is convinced he can do better by selling his milk to the creamery. In fact, creamery butter finds ready sale, whereas private- butter goes begging. But if the same price is paid for both kinds, the creamery still has the advantage, because more butter is obtained from the milk at less labor in a creamery than at home. I The above is what we have seen ' in the Old World, where, of course, few dairies exist. The farmers I each own from five to six cows. If ' cows enough could be brought together to-gether on one farm to run a dairy, such as we have in America, then 1 the butter could, of course, be made cheaper than on the co-operative plan. But we believe in our farming farm-ing settlements here in Utah, cooperative co-operative creameries could be made a great success. Every farmer who could keep five or six cows could keep them at a great profit, because there is always ready sale for i creamery butter. If some such plan is not adopted, it will only be a matter of time when private creameries will be erected at different dif-ferent parts of the Territory whose butter will entirely crowd out of the market the "home made" butter but-ter of the farmers. People today gladly pay from ten to fifteen cents more for creamery butter than the 'home made" article. The Enquirer has long been convinced con-vinced that something must be done by Utah farmers to improve the quality and make-up of their butter. Letters have been received at this office from peddlers and grocers urging us to write upon this subject. One man wrote that he had been a dealer in Utah farm butter for fifteen years, and he had steadily seen the market taken away from him by creamery butter, some of which is shipped into the Territory from the East. He fell sanguine, he said, that unless creameries were erected in Utah much "home made" butter would have to be used for soap grease. In this connection, we are glad to mention that Utah county is coming well to the front in creameries. cream-eries. Payson has one, and two have been erected this spring -one at Springville and the other at American Fork. Enquirer. A combined creamery and cheese factory, somewhat similar to the last three mentioned, is being built in Brigham. In the course of a few weeks it will be in active operation. opera-tion. The stock of the business is owned by thirty or forty old residents, resi-dents, most of whom are farmers, with many cows in their possession and good facilities for keeping them. The creamery has a capacity capa-city of 1.100 pounds of butter a dav; considerable cheese can be J produced and a large drove of hog: ! will be kept in connection with 1 the establishment. There seems i to be little doubt but that this new enterprise, will prove a great I success iu time. |