Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1898 — CANADIAN CREAMERIES, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CANADIAN CREAMERIES,

®* w TAey Are Operated and Made to P*y the Farmer.

A corres p o ndent of a Brown City, Michigan paper writes as lows; “An ln.l o ♦ . „

which is proving very advantageous to the settlers of North Alberta, Canada, and is truly a boon to the farmers, is the establishment of creameries by the Government at regular distances apart. The Government furnishes the entire plant, puts it in and operates it without direct cost to the farmer. From the sale of the butter the Government retains 5 eepts per pound, the balance going to the farmer. This is continued for three years, when the Government turns over the plant and business to the farmers, giving them a clear title of it. Thus these creameries are put in at a minimum cost to the farmer and paid for in a way that he least feels it. When we were there butter was selling at 21 and 22 cents per pound. Cheese factories were being established, too, along the railroad and much of the freight loaded on the cars on our return trip consisted of butter and cheese, as it was in the best season for milk. The produce found a ready market in the mining and lumbering towns and districts beyond the Rockies, through the British Columbia country, where It was, we were told, difficult to supply the demand. The Klondike is another field now open to the Western Canadian farmer for all produce of the farm, and the officials in the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, Canada, are kept busy sending out literature describing this great agricultural country. The agents of the Government throughout the United States are also supplied with literature, which they distribute free.