Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-03-20
(ppPLY OF PORTLAND
Consu-aed and what
IT Costs.

ttsSSsts.
Tfe seelelstics given below regarding
the milk supply of the city of Portland
are furnished the Oregonian by one of
the large dealers in the commodity in
| that city:
No less than 3,640,000 gallons of milk
and cream are consumed in this city
annually. This large quantity of the
lacteal fluid is delivered to consumers
by from 1926 to $50 separate milk dealers,
who handle daily from 25 to 1870 gall
Ions of milk each. This supply Is gener-
ally delivered in four-wheel vehicles,
which make two rounds daily, averag-
ing all the way from 20 to 100 stops each
round.
The average distance of these BIZ
daily routes is IL miles and consumes
generally about three hours. In some
parts of the city, where there are so to
rs consumers living near to each other,
they are supplied by as many different
dealers.
The average quantity of milk served
at each stop is three pints to the house
hold trade, and Az gallons to the whole
sale trade. The average cost per month
to the dealer for delivering is $45 The
price paid for milk to the farmer, the
year round, is cents per gallon. 1t is
delivered in the city by the dealers at
121s cents per gallon to the wholesale
dealers, and 5 cents per quart to the
private consumers. In quantities, con-
sumers have been supplied at the fol-
lowing rates: Milk, Is cents a gallon;
skim milk, 10 cents per gallon; cream,
rs cents quart (or is cents a pint.
Twenty gallons of milk are consumed
| to one gallon of cream.
The average quantity of milk con-
sumed in the city is 5000 gallons daily
in winter and 1900 gallons daily in
summer. The average amount of mon
ey paid daily to the producers for the
milk consumed in this city is $500, and
the total for the year $292, 900. The cost
to the consumers represents about
twice this sum year. or $584000, which
leaves $292,0O0 in round figures, as the
| net receipts of the dealers, less their
running expenses,
Unlike many eastern cities, nearly all
the milk consumed in Portland Is pro-
duced within a few miles of the city,
| and is therefore converted hither in
| wagons, and not by train. The deal
| ers are supplied with fresh milk twice
daily, and most of this has been cooled
| as soon as MIXED, to prevent it from
| souring quickly.
| Both dealers and consumers have
| found out that milk can only be bot
| tied to advantage when taken fresh
| from the COW and cooled in the bottles.
| If allowed to stand any length of time
| before it is bottled it changes color,
and loses its proper taste. The cost of
bottling adds IL cents a quart to the
price Of the milk. In all cases where
milk can be had fresh from the COW,
| it is preferred.
While dealers cannot deny the SUI
perior quality of the milk of the Jersey
and other high bred stock, their exper-
| fence has been that it only comes to
them better when milk is plentiful.
This is to say that when milk is scarce,
that of the Jersey is well watered be-
fore being sold. Therefore they say, in
one voice, give us the milk of the COM
mon, ordinary stock.
| Cut feed and meal is recommended
as food for stock, but not malt, be-
cause, though it forces the COW to give
a greater quantity of milk, it is great
| ly below standard in quality.