Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-01-10
Selling Milk for the City Market, or
or to q Local Creamery, Which p?

i'm THE ADVOCATE Of Dee. 9th, as to
which would be the most profitable
for the farmers Of his town, to con-
tract their milk to be shipped to Bos-
ton at to cents Il gallon, or to con-
tinue taking to the separator, having
the skim milk back again? An arti-
Gle in the New England Homestead de-
scribing an experiment that would APP
ply in this case. is here given;
Relative Profit in Selling Milk
Shall the farmer patronizc the cream
cry or sell the milk to the retailer,
is an ever puzzlmg question. y men,
Der Of the SomcrS, Conn, creamery |
made Il practical test Of the matter: !
conducted in the presence Of diSlntef-
csted witnesses. The test was CUnn-
ed to one days product Of ~ quarts of
milk and the estimates based on the |
market price Of the whole milk on the
one hand and the butter fat and
skim milk ON the other. The COWS
were largely IIolstcinS. Deduction
was made for an extra pint Of milk
not paid for going into every lo-quart
can to cover Shrnkage to the retailer
in measuring. The prices quoted are
for milk and cream taken at the farm.
TO the milk dealer: 10 quarts milk at
2Bc, 81. 05: also > quarts no charge.
net received from dealer Sl.01. To
the creamery; Cream from II quarts
milk POI lbs: per cent of butter fat
IS; butter fat @.5G lbs; price Of but
ter fat per ID 30c: total for cream l.OI:
80 quarts skim milk at &c, l1c, net for
creamery 1.22. This indicates a gain
to the farmer through selling to the
creamery Of lie over what was re-
ceived from the milk dealer, although
of course it does not not necessarily
follow that the experience Of any one
would be exactly the same.
A little figuring will show that the
milk sold to the creamery eQualed 10!
cents gallon, while sc. d. H." men
lions s or as the prices to be obtain
ed from the contractors. But if SC.
d. H." gets this price for the entire
year. that might make some differ
= ence. The loss of the skim milk re-
S ferred to is quite an item.
e Were il fed on the farm to calves
f and pigS considerable income can be
/ derived from this disposition Of it,
which with the average size dairy will
. amount to quite sum. Besides this.
p. in the raising Of such kind Of stock
:. quite large amount of manure car
be made, which is AN item that the
farmer should be careful not to over
look. as in this way the fertility OF
the soil can be much the more easily
y maintained. According to the Mas
sachusetts agricultural papers there
is every year more or less of agitation
= concerning the disposition OF milk TO
" the city trade.
j. There is oftcntimcs much difficult.
) between the producers on one han'
II and the contractor on the other, II
coming to any satisfactory agreemen
r as to prices, and the writer Ia
re thought that 1t would be moro salts
l. factory disposing of the milk at honi
N rather than to be subjected to this I'm
id certain condition of things.
re But the cities must have milk an
4, that is right the more of it the bette
10 if only the producers can be reason
ably compensated for it. The consl
id mers certainly have to pay enough Il
10 it. but the largest profit seems to com
in somewhere between the two e,
tremcs.
,o Perhaps that &C. ID. II" and otl
,o ers are so situated that it will be be
40 ter for them to dispose of their mil
-, to the contractors than in any otht
>, wav. There must be Il cOnSidcrab
nd quantity of milk shipped from Il
Al. southern part of the state to the CIT
~. markets, and it ought to be know
rt by this time whether it is a satisfa
NV tory method or not. The eXpeuen'
vo of those engaged in this buslne
,o would be valuable on this point. Sh1
cd it not be forthcoming.