F. R. (Francis Ray) Cammack

Francis Ray Cammack was an American writer and agricultural specialist born in 1890 and died in 1973. He is listed in Project Gutenberg and the Biodiversity Heritage Library for works on dairy science and farm production, showing his place in a tradition of practical agricultural publishing.

Cammack is especially associated with Neufchâtel and cream cheese: farm manufacture and use, written with K. J. Matheson for the United States Bureau of Animal Industry. The book focuses on straightforward, hands-on instruction for making soft cheeses on farms and in small dairies, which suggests that his work was aimed at readers who needed dependable, everyday know-how rather than theory alone.

Although little biographical detail is readily available from major literary reference sources, the surviving record of his publications presents him as a useful and workmanlike nonfiction author whose contributions belong to the history of American agriculture, food production, and technical writing.