The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-03-10


lowing report and to it add certain conclu-
sions that our patrons would do well to
consider During the season ending Nov
lst, IS, we manufactured from gathered
cream about i75,Oo0 pounds of butter be-
sides an equal amount of cheese from milk.
Paying in cash for milk and cream about
$40 600, had this amount of material been
made into butter by our patrons and sold
al the usual price realized by the farmers
Butter for the past season in Baltimore
market the nett value would not have oeen
over one half this amount. We taking the
cream away from the patron and returning
the money, by so DUNG the labor of manu-
featuring the butter by the farmers wives is
saved which is quite an object during the
season.
When the farmer thinks he pays for the
( tes N that get the cream, let him study these
I figures and he viii see his error. We have
also paid about s. zoe for teams, men. fuel
| &c.
/ the creameries been benefit to the farmers?
/ Is il TO their interest to continue to patron
I ize them? Should the business men OF
/ Smerset, county fight them or act kindly
/ toward them? We add further that the
average price paid for cream during the
season was Il cents per inch. and price OF
1 milk about - cents per lo0 pounds The
lowest price paid in five years for milk.
| On referring to our books find that We
I have paid TO our patrons amounts ranging
from $50 to $500 for material during the
season add to this one sixth more for sun
/ day milk that We do not get then the
amounts realized from their cows Before
the opening of the factories and after their
COW interest one of profit to the farmers who
gives her the proper care she is entitled to
II has been fairly tested that those who
I patronize the factory system one year with
another. do equally as well as those who
do not besides saving all labor of manuiac'
turing, expense of packing, commission
freight marketing &C.
To TEACHERS AND OTHERS WHOM IT MAY
B CoyCERS
shall open school in Somerset Borough
on Monday. April II, 1886.
Special classes in Latin. Higher Maihe-
mates, and The Theory of Teaching" viii
+ be formed, and no extra charge made for the
same.
I Miss Sidney Po.tIethwaite. well known
/ in this county as a successful teacher. will
act as my assistant and will have exclusive
charge of the Department of Penmanship'
She will also take charge of a special depart
ment in Bookkeeping, for which aa eTtrc
charge tciR Be made
| Mss Posthlethwaite has bean graduated
! from the Iron City Commercial College ol
/ Pittsburgh, Pa, with high honor, and. by
consenting to take charge of Bookkeeping
as speciality, is offering to the young peo
pie of this community an opportunity to Sc
cure business education, under lhe tuition
of person both competent and willing to
teach them that they have never before en-
joyed.
/ An arrangement has heen made whereby
lectures on Physiology will be regularly
| given.
An elocutionist is expected to devote the
four lsst weeks of the term to class-drill in
Reading.
An examination will he held at the clos.
and certificates will be issued by County Su
perintendent J. c. Weller
Length of Term. ten weeks. Board car
be obtained at 81 80 to $3.50 per week, with
deduction if absent from Friday eve to Mon
day
Terms.-Teachers' Grade. $500. Inter
mediate Grade. 50 60. To be considered
due in three weeks. No deductions excep
for actual sickness in charge ofa physician
A. c. HoLBFRr.
Prln. Somerset Schools