The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-11
VERMONT CREAMERIES
ARE INCREASING
-Four New Cooperative Plants Built In :
Past Year - Report Shows Value
of High Quality Butter.

MONTPELIER. Oct 11.-Consider
able Improvement according TO the YER
mont Creamery and Market News letter
issued DIV the agricultural department, has
been noted during the past two years
among the creameries along the lines OF
more Sanitary conditions, installation OF
modern equipment more efficient methods
of manufacture and general improve
ment IN construction ana remodeIlng OF
factories During the past year more
than 100000 has been expended IN the
construction of four new cooperative
creamerieS. These plants are all equipped
with modern machinery and are IN po-
sition to market fluid milk or cream, and
manufacture cheese and butter.
The dairy plants in Vermont are in
creasing their shipments of whole milk
TO the New York city market. The fol-
lowing table shows the increase in pounds
of milk shipped since 1917, and the in
crease in value of the shipments
Year. Pounds. Value.
1917 ....... 37,152,934 S 651 $500
1918 .... 32.546.143 995,340. Al
1919 .... 60, 5J0,299 2,19S,74O.65
This shows a II per cent increase in
the number of pounds of milk shipped in
1919 as compared with 1917.
The prevailing conditions in the yari-
Gus markets again show that it pays to
manufacture high quality butter. Dur
ing 1919 the price range in Boston be-
tween the 92-score and an SSscore was
81 cents per pound. At the present time
the price range on that market is s cents
per pound, and on the New York market
IL cents per pound. With these existing
price differences it behooyes every cream
cry to exert considerable effort toward
having its patrons deliver high quality
raw product and in turn to see that the
butter maker manufactures high quality
butter.
That it pays the creamery to manufac-
tuFe high quality butter is shown by the
yearly returns to the average size Yer
mont creamery manufacturing approx
mately 100000 pounds of butter. The
creamery manufacturing this amount of
high quality 92-score butter received
S19,2J0 more in 1919 than the creamery
manufacturing the same amount of low
quality SS-score butter. The price range
in Boston of 81 cents per pound plus a
premium of cents per pound for %
score butter was used in making these
calculations
1t also pays the farmer to produce high
quality milk and cream. This is shown
by the fact that during 1919. TO pounds
OF high quality butterfat returned S130.S3.
compared with S114.66 for the same guam
tity of low quality butterfat. This is a
difference of SlG.14 per COW Figuring To
pounds of butterfat as the yearly produc-
ton of the Vermont cow. On this basis
10-cow dairy returned S161.70, a 20
COW dairy S323.40, and a 30-cow dairy
1886. 10.
There is still Il scarcity of high quality
butter in the markets and the demand is
strong. Undergrades are still tagging
and are difficult to move. There is a
strong demand for unsalted butter i'm
small tubs.
Creameries contemplating the sale of
butter in the New York city market
should purchase a supply of the white
ash butter tubs for shipments of butter
to that market. Dealers and the trade
prefer ash tubs to the spruce tubs and
creameries will receive more for tbcir
butter when shipped in ash containers.