THE REGISTER
WEDNESDAY EVENING
APRIL 13, 1938
Dairymen Profit By High Prices Paid For Butterfat
Fairview Creamery, under the management of E. S. Illsley, has been able to render a greater service to the farmers and dairymen of Western Kings this year by virtue of the greatly increased price of butterfat. Not since 1929, when an all-time high was reached, has the price of butterfat been so high as it has been the past winter. Last week the price was 37c. which is 20% higher than last year at this time. With such conditions prevailing there is a much brighter outlook for the dairy industry and the returns to the farmers are limited only by the amount of cream they can produce. Stocks of butter are still low and in all probability fairly high prices will be maintained for some time to come. Last year Fairview Creamery produced upwards of a quarter of a million pounds of butter without reaching is capacity output and with prevailing high prices as an incentive to farmers to produce more cream, this year’s business at the Creamery should reach a new high.
Testing of the cream when received from the farmers is very carefully done in order to ensure correct returns to the shippers. Each can of cream is weighed on a government tested and certified scale and then a proper test is made of the cream and a record posted. A return is made to the shipper when the carrier returns for the next shipment and every effort is made to give a satisfactory service. A regular schedule of collections is made by two trucks and this winter there has been very little interruption in the service. It was not until the roads were closed, while the frost was coming out, that it was found necessary to collect the cream with horse-drawn vehicles.
The plant of this creamery is up-to-date with modern equipment housed in a commodious building. Two pastuerizers of 1,700 pound and one churn of 800 pound capacity are used and usually two churnings are made each day. In the manufacture of butter every care is taken by the Creamery to have it of uniform quality. All utensils used are kept scrupulously clean; even the rotary pump, which is used to transfer cream from the pastuerizers to the churn, is made a sanitary material and is taken apart after each churning and sterilized. After printing the butter is packed and placed in the refrigerator until shipped twice a week.
Last year chocolate dairy drinks and "Green Spot" orangeade were marketed by Fairview Creamery, which found a ready sale. The district covered by this service is to be extended this year and a considerable increase in output is anticipated. New machinery has been installed including a bottle washer and an automatic bottler. The latter fills and caps the bottles. Deliveries of these nourishing and tasty drinks, which are absolutely pure, are made every two days. They are placed on the market direct from the refrigerator packed in ice to maintain the same temperature while being transported to the dealer.
Fairview Creamery is one of Berwick’s thriving industries and not only provides a certain amount of employment but renders a valuable service to the farmers of the surrounding country by taking care of their products and ensuring them a profitable return.