Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — CANADIAN CREAMERIES, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CANADIAN CREAMERIES,

How They Are Opcrnted and Made to Pay the Farmer.

A correspondent of a Brown City, Michigan paper writes us lows: “An industry

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 cents 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 Koekies, through the British Colombia 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 tlie Department of the In: terlor, Ottawa, Canada, are kept busy sending out literature describing this great agricultural country. The agents of tiie Government throughout the United States arc also supplied witli literature, which they distribute free.