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price in November and December, and after Christmas there 

 is not so much cream and milk consumed anywhere, I guess. 

 Now, what has encouraged concerns, when they have been 

 handhng this at a loss is, that during the flush season there 

 would be something to take care of that loss. I am asking you 

 in all candor, do you advise paying just as much in the flush as 

 in the season of shortage? I am going to tell you, that there 

 has been money laid aside in the flush season by one concern 

 and paid out in the season of shortage, and the idea has beeii 

 to induce production at that season. I am going to tell you 

 another thing. One concern that laid by a little money in the 

 flush season is going to have a dividend in June, July and 

 August, because we have more money than we are justified in 

 keeping from the farmers. Now would you do that? Pay all 

 you could in the flush season and no more than the merits oi 

 the business would warrant in November and December? 



Prof. Sanborn : This is a public question before a keen 

 body of men, Mr. Bradford is a master in his profession. 1 

 do not intend to be radical, but I mean to be understood, that 

 the summer price of milk should be as great as the winter price. 

 I do not mean to -say I would try to get it all at once ; I would 

 demand a raise next summer larger than this winter and gradu- 

 ally merge the prices into one. There are farmers who raise 

 much milk in June and none in winter, but I submit that that 

 surplus at that moment should not dictate the price for the 

 whole year ; and when the equilibrium for the six months is 

 summed up, it will be found there is no surplus. Your trouble 

 lies in the fact that you have not ascertained just what I have 

 stated ; the knowledge that your summer milk costs you as 

 much as the winter milk. 



Question : Granting what you said to be true, would you 

 acknowledge that we have to pay a premium to regulate this? 



Prof. Sanborn : Perhaps so. I think it is the business of 

 an organization like this to make familiar to each farmer of 

 the state these truths. 



Question: My idea was to find out if there is any other way 

 to regulate this without offering a premium? 



Prof. Sanborn : Yes. We should begin by contending with 

 the men in Boston. Mr. Bradford makes butter as well as milk. 

 My case is v.-ith the Boston contractors. 



