Show STARED ON POWDER MILK PUNT AT change effects plants of western creamery in three towns plans and specifications are complete and work has been started by the western creamery company on a milk processing plant at monroe for the production of milk and sweet ream cream butter V J manager for the company in this district stated wednesday that his company expects to have the plant ready for production some time in april the western creamery building at monroe will be enlarged and remodeled to give about twice the floor space it now has and the building will be stuccoed coed the largest part of the cost will be in equipment cheese making equipment will be moved from the plant at monroe to the planar at richfield cheese making will be discontinued at the plants at richfield monroe and koosharem Koo Roo sharem when the powdered milk plant is ready for operation this however will not be permanent mr stated the company will keep the plant at richfield intact and the making of cheese at the plant here and of powdered milk and butter at the plant in monroe win will be altered as the market demands asked whether or not this would be seasonal mr stated that this would not be the case explaining that greater profits were obtained last year from making cheese than from producing powdered milk but that the market this year indicates the case win will be reversed and what next year will bring cannot yet be determined by making this alteration possible the company hopes to be able at all times to pay dairymen the highest market price for milk used in milk products two large electric separators with a capacity of pounds an hour houi and equipment for making pasteurized sweet cream butter will be installed the powdered milk obtained through a process of evaporation of the separated milk is used extensively in commercial plants such as bakeries canneries and ice cream manufacturing plants although production at the plant will not be especially limited it is hoped to bring it up soon to handling pounds of milk daily the cheese factories at koosharem Koo sharem richfield and monroe combined have been using pounds of milk daily this change should make possible an expansion expansion of the dairy industry in sevier county already the company has arranged to ship milk in from circleville Cir cleville and is considering running a line from gunnison employees at the richfield and koosharem Koo sharem plants will be transferred to work at the monroe plant this is the only district in which the western creamery will have both types of plants they have operated a powdered milk plant at preston idaho |