The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-08-18

bined, commercial and composition,
were as follows:
South Peacham Cooperative cream
cry, South Peacbam, r. II. Lawson,
score 93S.
Gold Brook Cooperative creamery,
| Stowe, j. ID. Santamore, score 93.33.
North Montpelier Cooperative cream
cry, North Montpelier, S. c. Hills,
score 03,l3.
August Educational Butter Scoring
Contest.
The fifth monthly educational but
ter scoring of the year will be held at
10 a. m. on Thursday, Aug Is, at
Morrill, hall, college of agriculture, in
Burlington. All samples for scoring
should be sent to the above address
to arrive at Burlington on Aug. l6 At
present 92-score butter sells for six
cents more than S7-score.
Come on, buttermakers and cream
cry managers, send five pound box of
butter to this scoring. Try and hit the
92-mark or better. Every buttermak
er has desire to make better butter
and you can't afford to miss these
monthly scorings, which offer an OPP
portunity to learn wherein the quail
ity of your butter can be improved
Creamery Federation Meeting Aug. IL.
An invitation has been sent to the
directors of all the cooperative cream
cries by the president OF the Vermont
Cooperative Creameries, Inc, to be
present at meeting to. be held in
Montpelier on Friday, Aug. II, at !
p. m. to further discuss the problems
relative to organizing a federation for
the purpose of marketing their prod
ucts in more efficient and more prof
table manner.
Tentative plans of organization were
drawn up through the assistance of j,
f. Langner of New York City, and were
referred to committee which was APP |
pointed at the last meeting held in
we're mailed to each cream
cry for consideration previous to their |
discussion at the meeting to be held
on Friday.
1t is expected that every cooperative
creamery. both the old type and new
type, which is interested in the devel-
opment of better system for the
of their products will be
represented at the meeting on Aug. IL.
Marketing Maple Products.
The marketing committee which was
appointed to investigate and study
plans for the organization of the ma
pie sugar producers for the purpose of
developing a sane and orderly system
II marketing their products are still +
It work. This committee met in Bur
ington on Aug. to discuss prac
ical plan of organization, and it was
lecided to call a state wide meeting
If all producers for the purpose of
a tentative plan OF organ
zation and financing This meeting
will be held in early September in Bur
ington. The exact date viii be an
lounced later,
Commodity Prices.
A comparison of prices on the major
airy products and hay and potatoes
N June and Aug with last year
hows quite variation On June
utter dropped to % cents and cheese
% IA cents compared with June | last
ear when butter was firm at IS cents
nd cheese at 2SA cents However, the
rst of August shows general and
rm increase in prices. Butter on Aug
was 10 cents compared with So cents
n Aug. |, 1920. Cheese was selling at
920.
The markets on hay and potatoes
how practically the same fluctuations
n June ! Timothy No. ! was selling
$29dS3l per ton as compared with
i3@si5 per ton in 1920. On Aug. |
ne price difference was not so marked
o. | Timothy was quoted at 1871 a S32
yainst S40@ $42 on Aug, /, 1920.
Potatoes show quite a marked varia-
on in prices, On June new potatoes
ere quoted at S3.50@S4.50 per barrel
impaired with sl2@ $3.50 per barrel
st year On Aug. | the margins were
IT quite SO wide. The price of $3.50
$3.50 is compared with s5Gs7.50 a
sar ago. q
These price fluctuations are due pri- Il
arily to the abnarmal season. The =
ny early spring FASTENED early n
owth, which was followed by long "a
ID hot dry weather. Dairy products
oduction was from two TO three 81
aeks in advance of a normal year. n
Il was later affected by the dry u
,ather which curtailed production n
d which caused a shortage of manu-
ctured products. This condition n
used the increase in price until at n
e present time butter and cheese q
We advanced rapidly in value in two II
,nths time. "A
The price fluctuations on hay and E
tstoes are not as marked as those y
dairy products.
The United States department of n
riculture's monthly report for Aug
shows that the condition of white n