Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1890 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A of ike Committee chosen August 18th, by a number of the Citizens of. Rensselaer, and - —.■■■■■■•■’■l—— adjoining country, to accompany Mr. Fosmer, on a to&r of inspection of Creameries and Cheese Factories. ! .ih left P*? 8 ** 1 "* An* 19, 1890, on the 11 A. M. train, arriving at Lafayette at aonut IP. M. Met Mr. Fosmer, looked at the Creamery and -Cheese. factory in the course of construction under the direction of Mr. Fosmer in that city. Found a massive well lajn foundation-of Masonery upon *&&& tke petory. The main building is to be 32x50, with side engine and office room 16x32, all to be two stones high, witli a receiving and weighing room 6x16. In the rear and adjoining tlto Factory is the cool room 20x32, which is 32 feet high. This is a very massfte, tme, built aftei the Jackson Patent The entire lower part is a cool room, while the upper part is to rccene . ons o ic(. e ice is placed m this room without saw-dust or other covering as ice would be placed m a refrigerator, and is guaranteed to hold the ice for 18 months, this keeping the temperatura degiees, and yet so dry that a match may be lighted any where on its inner walls. This part of the building was up and being enclosed. We found the work so far as completed, to be done in first (lass older pud to the satisfaction of all concerned, so far as we could ascertain. iv:'died at 7-20 at P ' M ‘ for Collimkia Cit y, in Whitley county, which place we A l 1 Af 2(>t o?i :3 °i wd M 'VnL G ve . Dt to , the Crea . mer y and Cheese Factory, erected ,by Mr. F’osmer, and S 0. The first patron to arrive with milk, was C. Copeland, manager and keeper of le County Farm one mile from town. He is milking 13 cows, of which he brings less than half to the to to l1 ’ T r f}i Smg }? calves, and has including family and inmates of the county house, 40 persons an( J The first month the factory paid 8Q cents per 100 pounds of milk, and 111 L d ha o he ddivered. _ The last month with short pasture and only 65 cents for nn erecene . . Said lie was satisfied it was a good thing, as are the County Commissioners, who )°ug it him a spring wagon m deliver the milk. Second man was milking 6 cows, is well satisfied with the milk business; said 65 cents per 100 pounds was as good as 16 cents for butter, and 80 cents as good as thought as good as 23 cents; said his pastures were dried up, but was feeding some ground fe |f- man ’ Ocxy ws, said two were Durham, the rest just cows; brings milk 8 register for this week gave, 18th, 186; 19th, 140; 20th, 167; feeds 4 calves, and keeps enough milk to use and make the butter for^ family of six; is satisfied with the business; except he thinks 65 cents too low a price. Fourtbman John Sterling milks 10 cows, feeds some oats and com ground; pasure is\ery iy- Register, 18th, Liß; IDtli, 147; 20th, 158; keeps out one gallon per day tor family; hauls sixmiles; is a stockholder; is satisfied with milk business, says it pays better than steers. Fifth man, ,J ° it ..I iu U 1S 110t stockholder, milks 5 cows, brings milk 2£ is satisfied with,milk business, does rn niff rJ‘ S Qnl\ S ’r- e ff ‘ BU ck’ kt‘ops milk to make butter etc. tor a family of six. Register, 18th, 60, 19th, 56, 20th oo lbs Sixth, wife of Levi Florence, milks 4 cows, is not a stockholder, thinks 65 cents toi milk is better than 15 cents tor butter; brings milk 5 miles; 3 cows month of June, brought $12.00, average amount of milk delivered that month 68 pounds; keeps one gallon at home, is satisfied and will invest m more cows. Seventh man, Lewis Hartman, President of the Company, lives 3 miles from town, milks o cows, average last month $5.00 per head, is satisfied and is going to increase the number of his cows. The company buy the milk. The whey and butter-milk belong to the company, -They toed air average of about 4o hogs, which pays well. The company’s building is 32x56, hightk 18 feet, engine room and office 16x30, one story. Off from rear of mam building is the Ice-house and cool-room, 16x32; coolroom Bxl6—having 16x24 for Ice; capacity 200 tons. This building cost S7OOO. They are now receiving milk from 100 cows, which, with the amount kept at hoine, and the present shortage of pastures, they think will not pay the running expenses. Yet Mr. W. H. Liggett, one of the Directors, thinks it a good investment, and that it will do well, in the future. They make 104 lbs. of cheese from 100 lbs. of milk; v lie i, at 10 cts. per pound, makes $1.05 per cwt. \V ould, say this factory receives milk six days in the week only, the patrons keeping Sunday milk, from which, with what they keep each day, they make butter tor their families. J J • T ook tram at 12:48 P. M. tor Chicago, arrived at SP. M. Took train at 6P. M., over the C. &N. W., arriving at Turner Junction at 7 P. M. 6:45A.M. took team and drove to Geneva. A riving at the Fox River Creamery at about * ooannn !*° in -ii • / operator of factory, we learned, that this factory has received as high Taou id °;. milkp( t da y> 18 llow receiving 12000 lbs. from which lbs: butter per 100 lbs. milk, or o 0 >s. daily, tor this tlie company charges 3 cts. per lb. for making; $16.20 per day for the expense of actory and profit to the stock. The butter is now selling at cts. which, at 44 lbs. per 100 lbs. milk, makes SI.OO per 100, deduct cost of making 44 lbs. at 3 cts. —134 cts., leaves 864 cts. per 100 lbs. for the tanners, besides this the patrons get the skimmed, or separated milk to feed their hogs. First patron introduced, was a very intelligent man, and keeps a debtor and credit account with his form. Name H. E. oturns milked m 1889, 22 cows, some not very good; delivered for the year 106,000 lbs,, average price for inn n eai pt l ' ‘ 7-10, he raised 6 calves, besides kept an average of 45 head of hogs, thinks id 1 lbs. ot extracted, milk worth 4 as much as corn at 50 cts. per. 100 lbs. or worth 25 cts. per hundred to teed. He received for the 22 cows, something over $l,lOO. He owns a farm of 120 aerqs and 30 or 35 in pasture, balance hay and grain; sold $600.00 worth of hogs, which equals something over $1,700. He has no boys, .veeps one man, and hired some in haying at a cost of $250, not counting board, leaving $1,450 piont trom his farm, lias a batter lot of cows This year, which will give better results, will increase the number next year. Feeds in winter about 4 or 4 bushels of a mixture of good oats and corn, mixed with (jlucose. T. H. Bowror milked 35 cows, has a farm of 208 acres, 80 in pasture, balance in hay and grain. Kecened last.\ear about $1,700 for milk, feeds hogs, has now 80 head, sold about S7OO worth of hogs last year, lias no children, hires all his help, costs about SSOO per year. From H. Worford, manager, we learnthat tor the month of May 1890, they received 608703 lbs. of milk made 24,138 lbs. of butter, a yield of 3 Jo-100 per 100 lbs. of milk, this at 3 cts. earned $724.14, average amount paid farmers for this month for mdk f was ol cents, the butter for this month sold at 18 cts., and 14*cts., the lowest they ever sold. The stock can not be bought at even SSOO ou the SIOO. This factory is run and owned exclusively by farmers, and in a radius of 5 miles there are 5 other factories, this being in the center. This factory paid fi premium last year of 80 per cent., tor the 3 months just past it paid 10 per cent. 1 rom here \ve drove to the Turner Co-operative creamery. This creamery is now receiving 10,000 pounds daily, highest 16,000. Factory commenced last September. Dividend for the 10 months SBOO on stock. Stock of this company is now worth $l5O. This factory is connected with the Elgin Board. Trom the observations of your committee we would wish to say, that we believe the establishing of a stock creameryat Rensselaer, would be a great advantage financially to the surrounding country. All of which we respectfully sumbit to the consideration of the people. • ■ s __ _ Joseph 11. Willey, ) n ... Ad. Pahkisok, J Committee.

JOHN GRAVE*. j.-• • - WHKATFIKLD, INDIANA,. AUCTIONEER. Sales attended in any part of Jasper and ad . joining counties, also Real Estate Agent and Jus f ice of the Peace , Collections promptly attomtea to. Large amounts ol larmsand town property for sale. Address - - VVheatfibld, Ind. xxr i 2. JAMES A. BURNHAM, u. s- pensioT~attorney AND JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Thoroughly equipped and abreast of the time . Expert in Pension matters. Office Front, above the post-office, Rensselaer, Ind. Sept Ist, 1890. D WIGGINS It It OS. —:ABSTRACTERS,:-. Rensselaer, Ind. PIONEER MEAT MARKET, Renselaer, - - Indiana J. J. EIGLESBACH, PROP'S. BEEF, Pori, Veal, Mutton, Sausauge, Bologna, etc., sold in quantities to suit purchasers at the lowest prices. Nonebutthe bea stock slaughtered. Everybody is invited to call. highest price paid for good a cattle. ' J.j. EIGLESBACH. —i_ ; J w. hoktclv, DENTIST. Fillings inserted that will not com* out. LOCAL ANESTHETICS used in Teeth extraction. BP*Artificial teeth inserted from one to full sets. Office over Elis & Murray’B. Rensselaor. Indiana. UCHUYLKR ** * Notary Public and Insnraace iient. Companies represented: Aetna.of Hartford, Ilnrtlord. ol Hartford; Sprlmcdcld F. A At. Ml Springfield; German American, of K. Y.: Franklin, of lndianapolia; Insurame Go., of North America! and Travelers Life A Accident with accident tickets from one to thirty days V/fficu wlUiCircuit Clerk. 25-5.