Pasteurized Milk
A New Creamery to Be Started in Ann Arbor
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IT WILL DELIVER MILK
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And Manufacture the Surplus Into Butter.
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While It Will Start Out With Many Milk Contracts, It Cannot Hope to Monopolize the Entire Milk Business of the City.
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Preparations are being made to start a new enterprise, which will be of considerable benefit to the farmers around Ann Arbor, and also to the city, in that it will have the effect of largely increasing the dairying interests of this region.
It is a well established fact that wherever a well managed creamery, condensed milk factory, or any variation of these lines of business have been established, the results have been that more money has been put into general circulation, more stock kept, which later has increased the fertility of the farms.
A prejudice has grown up against the creamery business in places, owing to poor management. Where good managers have been at the helm the results were all that anyone could desire, and the community enthusiastic in their praise.
The enterprise contemplated in Ann Arbor, is to supply the growing want for sterilized and pasteurized milk.
Medical men have warned people against the danger of milk in its natural condition.
Where the cows are kept in a clean condition, and are not affected by tuberculosis, milk is safe and wholesome, but there is always the danger at hand that some milk may not be in this condition.
When the milk is sterilized and pasteurized all this danger is prevented.
The title of the new company will probably be the Sanitary Milk Co. The amount of the capital stock is not definitely fixed.
Among the parties interested will be ex-Mayor C. C. Darling, J. J. Goodyear, Junius E. Beal, of this city, and J. M. Travis, of Plainwell.
The company intends to put up a modern milk depot with all necessary machinery and cold storage.
Here the milk will be received, cooled, sterilized and pasteurized, and placed in bottles before being delivered.
It is understood there will be handsome new delivery wagons bought. The drivers will all wear a natty uniform. Everything about the establishment is to be conducted in the cleanest, most appetizing manner, that modern methods and science can suggest.
There will be no special raise in the price of milk except for sterilized and pasteurized milk, which may be a trifle higher, to pay for the extra expense in preparing the same.
At the present time the milk men of the city, find that at the Christmas and midsummer holidays, the demand for milk is just cut through in the middle.
To prevent loss to the company and give the farmers a steady demand for their milk, an experienced butter maker will be engaged, who will utilize all surplus cream, in making gilt edged butter, and also possibly the so-called Dutch cheese.
The cold storage department will be used for storing this butter and also eggs.
It is a well known fact that for the greater part of the year there is not enough butter brought to the city by the farmers to supply the demand. This difficulty will be sought to be remedied by the company's cold storage plant. To supply the plant with ice an ice house will be erected with a large capacity.
The organizers of the proposed company are out making contracts in which the price to be paid for milk is 2½ cents a quart.
This means about 85 cents a hundred pounds. The annual report of the Ypsilanti creamery company shows that during the past year the farmers received 77 cents per hnudred pounds. This stipulated higher price to be paid by the Ann Arbor company will encourage the farmers to increase the number of cows they keep.
Another important provision in the milk contracts, which will be greatly appreciated by not only the farmers but the merchants as well, is that settlements are to be made weekly.
The company proposes starting operations a bout May 1.
Its success will be watched with much interest.
The company has let the contract for building an ice house to Jacobus & Son.
The ice house which is to be 30x50 feet in size will be built on the tracks of the Ann Arbor railroad near Hall's coal shed and work upon it will commence tomorrow and it is to be pushed to immediate completion.
Five hundred tons of ice from Whitmore Lake has already been contracted for.
Creamery men were in the city yesterday and others are coming this week giving their plans for the best equipments.
These creamery men are from Toledo, Syracuse and Chicago.
The promoters of the company say that their object is to furnish pure milk, that the majority of the farmer have not made a study of the best methods of producing milk and the only inspection which has been had by the state developed the tact that most of the milk was produced with very unsanitary surroundings.
The company makes its contracts for milk only with those farmers who are willing to submit to au inspection of their manner of producing and cooling the milk.
Dr. Darling, who is one of the company, said today that he was not going into the business for the purpose of shutting anybody out from selling milk or engaging in that business. There was no objection to anyone's entering the business who saw fit to, but the company proposed to guarantee pure milk. The company will deliver only fresh milk, the surplus being made into butter and it is immaterial to the company whether they sell the milk to consumers in this city or make it into butter. The milk is to be sterilized or pasteurized.
Being properly cooled and handled and sterilized it will last the consumer longer, as he will have less sour milk to throw away.
In Rochester and other cities of New York creameries have been started on the plan of the one proposed here and have been successful in solving the problem of furnishing pure and fresh milk, with the proper hygienic care.
The new creamery will undoubtedly be located in the Third ward. The farmers of this section are to be given the first chance to contract their milk. If they do not see fit to do so, milk will be shipped in from the north on the Ann Arbor road.
The milk contracts which are being signed provide for the delivery of a certain number of gallons of milk per day and as much more as the farmer has a mind to bring at 2½ cents a quart, payments to be made weekly.
There are requirements as to the sanitary condition of the farms and the cooling of the milk and its inspection.
Many contracts have already been signed.