Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24

I sixteenth IN order. or cheese. 6.10
! cents and was in eighth place; cream,
7.27 cents, or fifteenth.
| The American HolderneSS, Nora, in
| the first period of lactation, produced
I milk at cost of 1.30 cents per quart,
or third lowest; cream at SIC, or
thirtyfourth; butter at 1855 cents, or
/ thirty-third, and cheese at $50, or
| eighteenth.
! The ShorthOrn, Betsy Y, in the sec
! ond period, produced milk at a cost
of 141 cents, ranking ninth; cream,
6.3o cents, or fifth; butter at 1920
cents, or second.
The Guernsey, Oriole, in her first
period. first of her breed. had as cost
Of milk 1.5S cents. ranking four
tenth; cream. 6.26 cents, fourth: but
ter, 1874 cents, fourth: cheese. 500
cents. also fourth.
The Jersey, GiIderblocm. in third
period of lactation, that -anked high
est of her breed for low cost of milk.
Loo cents, or fifteenth in order. was
nineteenth for cost Of cream-namely.
l.I9 CertS; second for cost of butter
l2333 cents, and third for cost of
cheese. $50 cents. Another jersey.
Countess Flavia, in the fourth period
although nineteenth in order for east
OF milk, 169 cents, had the lowest
figure for the other products. cream
oeIng 5.49 cents; butter, 11.3O cents.
and cheese, 526 cents.
Of the two remaining breeds. the
Devon, Artalla, was twenty-ifth for
lnllk, or l.19 cents; twenty-SiXth for
cream, or S.12 cents; twenty-sixth for
butter, or II cents, and nineteenth for
cream, or 6.S cents.
The COW producing milk at the
greatest cost was the Devon, lone
229 cents, she also ranking FORTY
fourth for cream, 1913 cents. and for
cheese, 9.12 cents, and forty-second.
or p cents for butter. the highest
cost for butter being 21.26 cents. the
record of the Hoistein-Friesian. Ruth.
The greatest profit from the sale of
milk would have been S3619. and
TINS for the Ayrshire, Junietta Peer
less. Her product if made into but
ter would have been 1906, giving a
margin in favor of selling her milk
Of 3.14. The greatest profit from the
sale of butter would have been
S54.61, for the Jersey. Countess
Flavia. Her milk would have brought
only $2S.S1, giving the margin in
favor of butter OF $3.50.
The second best in favor was for
the Guernsey, RoSelle Ford, of S2O.66,
the milk value being S24.47 and the
butter $45.13.
The greatest profit in the sale of
milk over butter would have been for
the HOlstein-FreSian, Netherland
Constance, the value of her milk be-
ing $2962, whereas if sold in butter
it would have brought only $19.55.
The least difference was in the case
of the Ayrshire, Queen Duchess, her
milk being valued at $2753 and her
butter at $27.3S, the difference in
favor Of the milk being Is cents.
Averaging all results, the amount of
profit from selling milk was $3.50 to
the individual, while of butter it was
$50, 64-that is, taking the herd
through, the average per head would
have been 1854 more if the product
had been sold as butter than as milk.
Or for every dollar of profit derived
from the sale of milk, there would
have been $1.3O from the sale of the
product as butter.
Or if the product had been sold as
cream instead of milk the milk of the
Countess Flavia, which would have
brought. S29.S1, as crea q would have
brought S11S.O3. OF the Guernsey.
Barbara Allen, the milk value was
$29O4; as cream it would have
brought S112.63.
In every instance the production Of
cream would have realized more than
for milk. Even the Devon, lone, with
the value of her milk Of SOL, would
have had $4323 as the value of the
cream.
| The average profit per head for the
sale Of cream would have been $7252,
or 1922 per head more than for milk.
! For each dollar of profit derived from
selling milk there would have been
$500 from the sale of cream.
In answer to the question as to why
| cream should sell for so much more
! than the milk Of which it was a part
is the fact that cream is regarded in
the main as a luxury and is paid for
eSpOndingly, consumer not being
alive to the fact that it would be more
| economical to purchase milk and raise
! their own cream, securing at less cost
| the same amount Of cream and having
that valuable food, skimmilk, for
other purposes.
The tests, SO far as they concerned
! cheesemaking, showed this to hold
the least profit to the dairyman under
ordinary conditions. The average
profit per head for the herd in ques-
ton, if the product had been sold as
cheese, would have been only 1919 or
SO less than from the sale Of milk.
Had the question been butter or
cream there would have been $3.50
from the sale Of cream for every dol
lar derived from the sale Of butter.
i Had it been butter or cheese the
profit from butter would have been
1852 for each dollar made from
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