. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. Dairy Suggestions from Europe. 213 gong sounds, the market opens, and the scene is a busy one. In about two hours we saAv 60,000 cheese change hands. After being sold the cheese were removed on carriers, each borne by two men, to the official weigh house, where they are weighed and then packed into boats on the canal near by and taken to the different cities, or stored in large curing houses close by. In the province of Friesland most of the butter and cheese is made in fa
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. Dairy Suggestions from Europe. 213 gong sounds, the market opens, and the scene is a busy one. In about two hours we saAv 60,000 cheese change hands. After being sold the cheese were removed on carriers, each borne by two men, to the official weigh house, where they are weighed and then packed into boats on the canal near by and taken to the different cities, or stored in large curing houses close by. In the province of Friesland most of the butter and cheese is made in factories, practically all of which are co-operative. There are 70 co- operative factories that receive on the average 25,000 pounds of milk per day. The average price paid the farmer last year at these factories was 4% Dutch cents per lieter, or practically one dollar per 100 pounds, of milk. The butter sold on the average at 25 cents per pound and the cheese at 10 to 12 JJelivering milk to co-operative creamery and cheese factory, Leeuwarden, Holland. This factory received milk from 2,000 cows. About one-third is delivered by boat on the canal and two-thirds by wagon. ]\Iost of the butter exported from Friesland goes to England. It is put in wooden casks resembling a small barrel. Each cask of butter is numbered so it can be traced back to the creamery and to the churning from which it was made. The butter must contain less than 16 per cent, of water or the manufacturer is fined. We visited a ccnbined creamery and cheese factory near Leeu- warden that cost $50,000. This fine brick structure, with its slate roof, tile floors, Avhitewashed walls and ceiling, and everything built in the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Missouri. State Board of Agriculture. Jefferson City, Mo. : Missouri
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