New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-02-06
Can't Have a Big Price and Big Test.

We take from the Blue Earth Post the
following extract from one of the inter-
esting papers read before The Fairmont
convention by A. E. Anderson, which
contains facts which If remembered
will 60 long ways in preventing dis
content among different creamery pa
irons:
"And thirdly, I come to warn you
against the temptation of chopin,
juggling or cutting the test. Patrons
of different creameries are not so far
apart but what they sometimes and
somewhere come together and then they
are apt to ask one another some ques-
tons. Thus Mr.. A. from a big cream i.
cry meets Mr.. B. from small creamery
cry and the following conversation takes
place: Mr.. A. says: what did your
creamery pay for milk last month"; Mr..
B., I'VE received % cents per pound tor
butterfat.' Mr.. A. hangs his head a mo-
ment. He is surprised. His face be-
tokens a doubt and he exclaims Twenty
three cents? How is that2' Your small
creamery paid twenty-three cents, and
our big creamery, having all the i'm
provements and the best butter maker
to be found anywhere, and getting from
three-fourths to one cent above the mar
ket for our butter, and we received 18
cents only there must be some mistake
about it, Mr.. B. answers: L don't know
whether there is any mistake or not.
All know is that we got % cents. AS
for your creamery being bigger than ours
don't make any difference. The bigger
the creamery the greater the expense,
and guess our butter sells as we'll as
that of our neighbors, at any rate sup
pose SO. The women folk look after the
milk and get groceries for the checks
when it comes. 1 don't bother my head
about the milk. 1t don't amount to much
anyway, but I heard Mary say this morn
ing she got % cents Mr.. A. goes home.
He has talk with his butter maker. He
has the interest of the creamery at heart,
for he is a good dalryman and he has
confidence in his buttermaker. He in
forms his buttermaker that there is some
thing wrong somewhere. 'Our neighbor
Il. over at the little one-horse creamery,
tells me they paid 90 cents for butterfat
last month, and | have actually heard
that some of our patrons living on the
outskirts of our territory are talking of
going over there says Mr.. A. in conf
dence. The buttermaker is one of those
quiet, unassuming men, who knows that
he has done nothing out OF the way. He
is certain of the ground and he is calm.
He replies as follows 'The next time you
see Mr.. B. or any OF the family find out
what their test was Mr. A, does so and
soon reports Mr.. BIS test was 80 per
cent. Now Mr.. A. says the buttermaker,
sit down here and let US figure this thing
out. Mr.. B. got % cents, you say, and
he got 3 $40 test. Multiply the test 8
80 by % cents, we find that he got 70
cents and 6 mills for each 100 pounds of
his milk. Now your test was 10 per
cent, and you received rs ceLts and six
mills for each 100 pounds of your milk.
Not much difference is there? In fact our
Is cents a pound is just two cents a hun
dred for milk better than theirs. 1t
makes no difference how you figure this
thing. If you want a big price to make
show you will have to cut your test
quite low. You can't have a big price
and big test at the same time"