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Farmers Will Find a Good Market for Their Cream Close To Home


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Farmers Will Find a Good Market for Their Cream Close To Home

The Texan hopes to announce next week that Dalhart is at last to have a real creamery. It looks very much that way now, but that one-ina- thousand thing may happen to block it.

It is known that the Chamber of Commerce has been exerting every effort for several months to interest some good, experienced creamery man with ample capital to put the thing across. Such a man has been found. He has an organization lined up that Dalhart will be proud of, and farmers over a large scope of country will find a good market close at home.

There has been a lot of cream shipped to Trinidad, Liberal, Amarillo and other places the last few years, and the industry is growing. If the deal now pending goes through, and it looks like nothing can prevent it, farmers all through the Dalhart country will not only be assured of the highest market price for cream right at home, but will save the transportation expense heretofore incurred.

“I’ll tell you how you can cooperate,” said the man who represents the creamery company in answer to a question put by a representative of The Texan. “Just tell these farmers to keep more milch cows. It’ll be good for them and good for us and good for your town.”

“Some of the large creamery companies that operate in this section have a way of establishing large plants in large towns remote from the section where the cream is produced. We establish smaller factories in smaller towns, and convert the cream into butter the same day it comes from the farm. We thus produce a higher grade of butter.”

Asked if he anticipated any difficulty in finding a market for butter, he replied that he expected to sell it all down in Texas where they depend on cotton seed cake for feed for milk cows The grass of this section, he said, is ideal feed for dairy cows and produces a much higher quality of butter, and therefore he did not fear the competition down in the state. What he wants, he says, is more cows; there will be a demand for every pound of butter he can produce, and this at a good price. Of course, it is realized that it will take months, may be a year or two, before there will be as many dairy cows as his company will want, but they will come to it, he says, and he has no fears about being able to build up the industry to a paying proposition for all concerned.

The territory in four or five counties in Texas, some three or four in Oklahoma, and as many in eastern New Mexico, will be Dalhart’s territory when it comes to marketing cream, he says.

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