The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-06-03
BUTTER SENT
PARCEL POST
DAIRY DEPARTMENT or A. AND
N. COLLEGE SHIPS TO ALL
STATE POINTS.
ELIMINATES THE DEALERS PROFIT
Farmers Urged 10 Adopt Plan and
Deal With Housewives
Two Pound Car
tons Used.

To demonstrate 10 Oklahoma farm
ers and creamerymen Of the state that
butter can be sold direct to consumer
via parcel post and at a profit, the
dairy department OF Oklahoma A. and
NJ. college has inaugurated system
OF parcel post shipments covering any
point in the state.
Butter Is now being sent out by the
college dairy department in two and
fourpound containers. Every ship
ment Of butter is insured through the
postoffice department and there is no
chance Of loss through improper
handling in transit. While no effort
is made to lower the price of butter
TO point that would jeopardize prof
its to the producer, il will be possible
for the housewife in Oklahoma cities
10 obtain college butter at from 5 to
10 cents pound less than she has
been paying for the product OF the
big creameries in other states, pur
chased from her grocer. This margin
added TO the cost OF shipment and Of
insuring the package, does not alb
sorb present tolls to the middleman,
according to Prof. Roy C. Potts. In
other words the farmer can sell d.
rect TO the housewife at a slightly
lower price than she has been paying
the butter trusts and Uncle Sam win
deliver his product.
Professor Potts win sell college
made creamery butter at 60 cents per
two-pound package, or $l.l5 for four
pounds. No single pound packages
are to be tried out for the present.
Parcel post charges on two pounds,
within the second zone are cents.
The insurance charge on this package
will amount to cents, making a to-
tai OF II cents cost of insured deliv-
cry This will amount to 51a cents a
pound, leaving margin of.2415 cents
pound as the farm price. Parcel
post charges on four pounds Ia the
second zone amount TO cents. In
surance, again is cents Total cost
OF delivery and insurance is, therefore,
IS cents. AT $l.l5 for four pounds the
arm price per pound is 25lk cents.
Az the greater part Of Oklahoma falls
within the first or second zone. these
charges viii be pretty uniform
throughout the state. Longer ship
ments by parcel post will necessarily
be more expensive and in warm
weather would probably be impossible
Butter made at A. and M. college is
pure creamery butter. made according
70 the most modern scientific methods.
The cream is purchased from farmers
In the vicinity of Saltwater on hot-
terfat test or produced from the col
lege herd. Students in the dairy de-
partment are employed principally in
the manufacture of this butter. Stu
dents trained in buttermaking at A.
and M. college are holding responsible
positions in Illinois, Indiana, Texas,
Washington and many other states.
The department each year gives
short course in bnttermaking for the
benefit of farmers and creamerymen
OF the state.
The containers will have double
walls of corrugated cardboard. Every
precaution will be taken in shipment
to make sure of satisfactory delivery.
To Eliminate Middleman.
The chief purpose of the new plan,
which is really in the nature of an ex-
pertinent, is to eliminate the middle.
man in the dairy products game. In
cidentally. it is rap at the high cost
of living'