Milford chronicle., 1913-12-05
PAYS TO PATRONIzE CREAMERY.

1t is a little surprising to note th'
large number Of farmers who live within
a reasonable hauling distance of a good
well managed creamery who will con.
tinue to churn butter on the farm anC
accept a much lower price for butter
than a creamery can pay them for but.
ter fat. Perhaps, it is mistake to say
that the farmers continue to do this, as
we believe most of this work is left tc
the overworked farmers wife.
! Very few merchants care to buy dairy
butter and l believe the ajority of them
discourage the farmers in churning their
own butter, butmerchants must continue
to receive the butter whether they like
it or not If they expect to hold the trade
Of the farmers.
Some of the farmers who churn at
! home give as an excuse that they can
get more butter from given amount of
cream than the creamery will pay for.
This is, perhaps, due to a failure to un-
derstand that the creamery pays for
butter fat only, which is clear oil and
the farmer sells butter which is only
about so to 81 per cent of butter fat if
the butter is properly made. 1t is, of
course, true that much butter is sold by
farmers which contains less than so per
cent of butter fat, but such butter is de-
clsred adulterated by the Internal Rev
enue Department and it is also q viola
tiOn of the law Of some of the states to
offer such butter for sale.
The creameries are so closely watched
that they are afraid to incorporate suffi-
cient water or salt in the churning pro-
cess to bring their butter below so per
cent of butter fat. On the other hand,
the farmer does not run the same risk of
being found out and succeeds in selling
on the market butter that wonld subject
the creamery to prosecution.
When a farmer states that he can get
more than ten pounds Of butter from q
can Of cream that will test out pounds |
of butter fat, it is clear evidence that his |
butter would not pass inspection under |
the state and federal standards. Butter /
which shows by analysis so per cent Of /
butter fat is showing the maximum /
amount Of oVerrun that is permitted for /
legal butter. Taking into account that
some butter fat is lost in the butter-milk |
the farmer will have more clear money
by selling butter fat at 25 cents a pound
than to churn butter at home and sell it
for 20 cents, even though he gets 25 per
cent more butter than the creamery pays
him for pounds Of butter fat.
The amount Of time necessary to pro-
perly do a ehurning which in most in
stances should be not less than thirty
and time necessary to pro-
oerly work and pack the butter and give
the churn such attention as it requires
will be sufficient to permit the farmer
10 deliver the cream to the creamery
sven though it be necessary for him to
make a special trip for that purpose. |:
n the majority of cases a boy or girl
.an deliver the cream, thus relieving
he house wife from the drudgery in
.ident to making butter on the farm.
Most farmers are so situated, however,
hat they can join with neighbors in
cream to the creamery,
making it necessary for each one to 90
My once in a week or ten days, and
whether delivered in this manner or
ot farmer generally finds it necessary
o go to town once or twice a week, so
hat the delivery of cream is not much
xtra effort.
In these days of progress, it is about
s SENSIBLE to ask a farmers wife to
hurn and work butter by hand as it is
Or the farmer himself to plant and
ultivate his corn by his own labor.