Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-11-10
VOTED TO SUSPEND
Creamery Association Hard Hit
by Milk Shipments
SUNNY of Cream So Per Cent Less than
IL was Two Years Ago-Outlook IN
sprIna viii Determine Future.

After Dec. 1 the Brattleboro Creamery
ASSOCIATION will suspend operations at
least anti spring, barring n possible new
ARRANGEMENT, and unless the OUTLOOK III
the spring is more hopeful than IL is
now the affairs of the association Will be
wound nm. This decision was reached In
n special meeting of the directors Mon
day in the Office of the Brattleboro trust
company, The situation was dlscusseu
thoroughly and it was the opinion OF tne
directors that it was useless to unuertaNe
longer to overcome the odds against
them. 1t is possible, however, that an
arrangement may be made with the put
ter maker to make butter for such pa
irons as are willing to deliver their
cream. A.
The difficulty in maintaining the
creamer on a profitable basis Is the
policy of an increasing NUMBER Vi an"
ers in selling the milk for shipment 10
Boston. BY this plan they propaplV re.
ceive greater immediate returns put
those in a position to speak authorl.a-
lively state that the policy Is shortslsn.-
ed in the end because 1t deprlVes the
farmer of the separated mllk anu also
the buttermilk which comes back from
the r mery. With this separated milk
and buttermilk calves and pigs may pe
raised. and they help f~ertilize the tarm
for growing crops, but when the mix Is
shipped away the farmer either mas "
find other ways of raising young stoch'
pay fancy prices for stock which SOME
ho1v else has raised or allow his herd to
run down, to say nothing OF the quesuoh
of fertilizer.
The result of shipping milk away ana
thus reducing the supply OF cream at the
creamery combined with the greatly IN
creased consumption of cream IN the ice
cream parlors and at the soda fountains
has been to correspondingly increase the
ooet Mound nf the manufacture "
butter. There are certain fixed expenses
that have to be met whether the supply
Is large or small and the smaller the
supply the greater the average cost per
Mound of butter. In the month of sep
TENDER it was necessary to BUY nearly
s1lOO worth of butter elsewhere IN oruer
to meet the demands of the customers
and hold their trade.
A comparison of the reports for DC
tobor. 1909, and September, 1911, shows
what the association had been up
against. In the first month mentioned
the number of pounds of cream delivered
and gathered was 81 500; last Septem-
Der the number was 0 BIOS, or less than
half. The number of pounds of butter
made in October, 1909, was 5l41; in sep
TENDER, 1911, it was 1850. In OCTOBER,
1909 the amount of outside butter sold
was 1921 pounds, while for the month
before last ii increased to 29S6 POUNDS
The price per pound of butter fat Two
wears ago was so cents and for last Sep
TENDER 20 cents. The price per pound OF
butter two years ago was % cents ana
for last September 10 cents. In that time
the EXPENSES dropped from $494 to $34S.
The creamery has been doing business
% wears or more and had a successful
career until the extensive shipments OF
milk to Boston began. In one year IL
made about 200, 900 pounds of butter.