Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-06-03
LARGER RETURN FOR BUTTER

AAAAsOIlS AeElA ssAH y OAe IL AGhs
In order to render justice to the
farmer who produces a high grade of
cream, it is necessary to establish
grades and pay for cream according
to its grade. 1t is unfair to pay as
much for poor cream as for good cream.
and such practice encourages the pro-
ductiOn of poor cream, for it is easier
to be slack and indifferent than it is
to follow right practices necessary for
the production of high quality cream.
Minnesota College of Agriculture
has issued a statement in favor of
grading cream and points out the loss
es incurred when cream is not graded.
1t is, of course, impossible to state just
how much is lost by not grading. This
can never be determined accurately for
there are SO many factors that have to
do with fixing the price of our various
grades of butter However. there is
no argument for the production OF
poor butter. 1t is positively injurious
to the creamery and to the dairy in
dustry. Not only does it bring lower
consumed. A person will instinctively
consume more of high quality butter
than he will of a poorer grade.
According to the quotations OF but
ter in New York for the calendar year
1920. as shown by the United States
Bureau of Markets. the average year
~ price for butter scoring 81 was 62.39
cents per pound: for 80 scoring butter,
5S16 cents per pound and for SO scor-
ing. O.70 cents per pound. Between
these scores the price varied according
to the score 1t will be observed that
there is difference of 11.5 cents be-
tween butter scoring Sc and butter
scoring 90.
We are looking for opportunity to
improve our system OF marketing TO
bring to the producer larger portion
of the consumers dollar. There is no
system of marketing no reorganiza
ton. nor anything else that will begin
to bring the saying-Or perhaps better
say return-tO the farmer that is pos
sible by the production of good cream,
provided, of course, the creamery will
pay for it according to its quality.
There is an opportunity to return the
farmer 11.5 cents more for his butter
than is received for, S6 scoring butter.
The dairy experts Of Minnesota hold
that millions of dollars are being lost
every year by the butter producers OF
that state through the lack OF an AIDE
quate cream grading system: they es-
innate the loss to be nine million dol
lars annually. 1t is undoubtedly more
than this becaues larger quantities of
butter would be consumed if it were
of better quality
A. j. Mcclure. dairy specialist holds
that the Minnesota cooperative cream
cries could without difficulty. make Il
grade of butter that would score at
least 90 points. if they would set
about it in the right way. for already
third of their cooperative creamer-
les are making butter scoring % and
over. CrpamerieS working for bet
ter return for their butter may well
consider seriously paying for cream
according to grade. They. together
with their patrons. control the quality
and cannot lay the blame of poor quail
ity of butter on someone else. 1t is
within their power-thOSe producing
in this way stop one of the largest
losses sustained by the butter indus
try-HOard's Dairyman.