Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-08-22
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WHICH PAYS eESTl
Relative Profits OF Selling MIX. Butter.
Cheese or Cream.

| tho subject OF recent bulletin Issued py
the Geneva IN Y J experiment station
and data are given by which dairymen
may answer the question as to the form
OF the product from which the greatest
profit may be derived. each for himself.
| So many different factors enter into the
case that one must know all the condl-
tions 10 give an answer, and as many OF
| these factors concern local conditions
an answer based upon general conclu-
sions might prove to be all wrong for
one producer, while all right for another.
In tho tables Of this bulletin the value
OF milk is based upon the total solids
and is rated at 2 "a cents quart, or l.2S
cents pound, Butter Is rated as con
tanning S5 per cent Of fat and at the
average price Of % cents pound.
Cream is rated as containing 20 per cent
Of fat and Is placed at 20 cents quart.
Cheese is rated at 70 cents pound for
month old, Or 925 cents for green.
In calculating tho amount of profit
deduction of 1914 cents for each 100
pounds is made from tho gross profit to
represent tho amount Of feeding and
fertilizing materials taken away from
the farm in the case Of selling milk and
cheese, with Il smaller but proportionate
reduction in the case Of cream
There were "A animals used in the
tests, including the Holstein Friosian,
Ayrshire, American Holderness, Guern-
"A CI,l, la do,
The tables show milk to have been pro-
duced Mt least cost--namely, at IA
cents per quart--by Beauty Pledge, II
Holstoin Friesian, in her second period
OF lactation, but her price for cost Of
producing quart Of cream was 9. as
cents, placing her sixth u pound Of but,
ter, 10. 33 cents, or ninth, and Of cheese,
6. 90 cents, also ninth in order of merit,
The second in order Of cost Of milk
was tho Ayrshire, Junietta Peerless, in
her third period Of lactation. this cost
being / 81 cents. Her cost for butter
was l5 S3 cents per pound, or sixteenth
in order; Of cheese, 9. 10 cents and was
in eighth place; cream. 7.27 cents, or
fifteenth
The American Holderness. Nora, in
tho first period Of lactation produced
milk Mt Il cost Of 100 cents per quart.
or third lowest; cream at 8 1G. or thirty
fourth butter ut rs. 90 cents, or thirty
third, and cheese at g. so cents, or eight
zenith
Tho Shorthorn, Betsy X, in the
second period produced milk ut cost
Of La cents, ranking ninth; cream at
O. 33 cents. or fifth; butter at 10 20
cents, or sixth, and cheese at 5, "a cents,
or second.
Tho Guernsey, Oriole. in her first pc
riod, first of her breed, had as cost of
milk ] SO cents, ranking fourteenth !.
cream, 9. 90 cents. fourth; butter. 2 "a
cents, fourth cheese. 8 % cents, also
fourth.
The Jersey, Gildorbloom, in third pc.
Rod Of lactation, that ranked highest Of
her breed for low cost for milk. / 65
cents, or fifteenth in order. was nine
teenth for cost Of cream--namely, 10
cents; second for cost of butter, ~ 33
cents, and third for cost Of cheese, g. so
cents, Another Jersey, Countess Flavia,
in the fourth period, although nine.
teenth in order for cost of milk | 60
cents, had he lowest figures for the
other products, cream being 40 cents
butter, II 30 cents, and cheese. 8 90
cents
or tho two remaining breeds, the
Devon, Artalla, was twentytlfth for
milk. or l. 10 cents; twenty sixth for
cream, or &, IL conts; twenty sixth for
butter. or II cents. and nineteenth for
cream, or cents,
Tho cow producing milk Mt the great
est cost was the Devon. lone, 3 30 cents,
she also ranking forty fourth for cream.
10 l3 conts, and for cheese, Q. 9 cents,
and forty.second. or 81 cents. for butter
tho highest cost for butter being 81 20
cents. tho record of tho HolStein. Erie
sian, Ruth.
Tho greatest profit from the sale of
milk would have been $50 10. and this
for the Ayrshire. Juniotta Peerless Her
product if made into butter would have
brought $33 o. giving margin in ia
vor of selling her milk of 81 II The
greatest profit from the sale Of butter
would have been Sol CT, for tho Jersey
Countess Flavia Her milk would have
brought only S2S 81, giving tho margin
in favor Of butter of $25. so.
Tho second best in favor was for the
Guernsey. Roselle Ford, Of SEQ 66, the
milk value being SEA ~ and the butter
$45 10
Tho greatest profit in the sale of milk
over butter would havn been for the Hol.
stcin Fresian Netherland Constance.
tho value of her milk being 500. O..
whereas il sold in butter il would have
brought only $40 56. The least difference
was in the case Of the Ayrshire, Queen
Duchess. her milk being valued at S21 IS
and her butter at 81 IS the difference
in favor of the milk being | 6 cents,
Averaging all results the amount Of
profit from selling milk was $40 so &c
the individual, while of butter it wa.
SEQ oI--that is, taking tho herd through
the average per head would have been
s. 81 more If tho product had been sold
as butter than us milk Or for every
dollar " profit derived from the sale OF