Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-10-28
OUR FARMERS.
SELLING MILK.
(From Groton Times.)

/ just how to dispose Of the milk prod
uct to the best advantage is an I'M
portant question and interests every
dairyman. Some farmers sell milk.
some sell cream, some make butter,
some make money
Here are tie results of the expert
ence Of w. L. GllfIlan of South Rye
gate reduced to figures:
Shall we sell milk or butter? This
problem which some Of our farmers
are trying to solve. They want the
money, how can they get it? The
value Of skim milk tells the story.
For three years previous to 1892, our
Experiment Station at Burlington did
close and accurate work to find the
true value of skim milk. Applied to
pork alone it averaged to be worth Is
cents per 100 pounds, for three years.
Add fertilizer value of II cents, gives
total value of So cents.
In 1892 pork was higher and it was
worth 35 cents to feed with total value
of 46 cents per hundred pounds.
Full records of this work are in
the reports for 1891 and 1892, pages 100
and "A in each report.
Applying the same price paid to
present prices of pork, butter, meal
and milk we find the following facts !:
1st. That milk is worth II cents per
100 pounds for fertilizer if poured en-
the ground.
I'd. That if fed its value depends
on the price Of feed and products.
Sd. The average price of meal for
the first six months Of the year was
$1.52. Average price of butter was
20 cents. Average price of pork was
ST cents. Average price of milk from
the Hoods was Is ITO cents per can.
There is 81 cans to 100 pounds of milk
or $1.38 for each 100 pounds of milk.
At the station pigs in 20 days ate
672 pounds of corn meal mixed with
2784 pounds of skim milk. They
gained 296 pounds.
At the average price for first six
months of this year they would have
eaten meal worth $1O.21. The gair
would be worth 1854 This less
the cost of meal gives value of milk
or 1888. One pound of milk woule
be worth 91-10O of mill, 100 pounds
would be worth 10 Ito cents. Ado
, fertilizer value of II cents would
make milk worth 80 Ito cents.
Compare price received "a for mill
with prices received for butter anc
pork.
One hundred pounds of milk testing
4 per cent makes pounds butte
worth $1.16. add value for feeding pig
. and fertilizer of 80 lilo cents, Civ
total value of S1.46 or cents NOR,
!. per 100 pounds OF milk than to ship il
away and the farm grows better ever.
, day.
:, If the milk tested 4.25, $1.53 was re
. ceived for 100 pounds Of milk, or i
, cents more than to sell milk.
If the milk tested $50, SLIGO wa
ICCClVcQ VI III CCI1S
,, If the milk tested Ats, S1.67 was re
ceived or 20 cents more.
If the milk tested 500, 81. rs was re
ceived, or 81 cents more than the mar
who sold his milk and run out hi
farm.
How long will it take to get rich a.
hat rate?
, Compare July price. Meal at SIT
butter "a cents, pork cents, and mill
q cents.
, Meal to gain 296 pounds of porl
would cost S11.76. The 296 pounds o.
pork at cents would be worth $17.76
d If they eat 2784 pounds of milk
! which the Station pig did, the differ
2 ence, or Sc, would represent the value
Of the milk, or 2l1 cents. Add fertili
i, ger value Of II cents, and we find til,
8 milk was worth 32a cents for each 1O(
o pounds to feed. Butter at. "a cent.
and milk testing a would be wor tn 9,
t cents. Add milk value would max.
$l.58a. The man who. sold milk a
Fl cents per can received $1.I5 ant
lost Is cents per 100 pounds Of milk
If his milk tested 5 he would lose 81.
frents per 100 pounds.
II How long would it tax to make
kpocr farmer and poor farm?
Every farmer who makes cheese o.
SELLS milk is Obliged to buy fertilizers
to keep up the farm. On the Other
+ hand there are hundreds of farms ir
this section which have doubled ane
trebled their stock by making buttel
and feeding milk.
The man who sells milk and trie