2l6 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



HOW OLEO AFFECTS THE PRICE OF MILK BOUGHT 

 UPON THE BUTTER-FAT BASIS. 



C. L. Jones, Corinna. 



(Stenographic report.) 



I think there is a misunderstanding, somehow, between the 

 farmer and the creamery man. We do not get near enough 

 together and I do not i<now that we ever will under present 

 conditions, unless the creamery man gets down to the farmer 

 and understands his interests and talks these things over in a 

 friendly way, and not feel that he is a little above us. 



I think Brother Bradford's paper, while it is good from his 

 standpoint, is rather misleading. I think Brother Adams' re- 

 marks were misleading when he was telling us about his six 

 cent milk. This was all good, but w^hen they make these state- 

 ments, they should let us know the amount of butter-fat they 

 are producing. 



In this matter of purchasing milk in several ways; it does 

 make a difference to farmers how this milk is purchased, and 

 it would be well for us farmers to have these milk purchasers 

 adopt one plan. Now, for instance, in some of these methods 

 when the farmer gets above 3.50 per cent milk they pay thirty 

 or thirty-five cents when they claim it is worth forty cents. 

 Is that fair? I think not. I think you ought to come down to 

 us and talk these things over. If you have six per cent milk 

 and a cow that gives twenty pounds of milk, vou will not get 

 as much as you would for three per cent milk and forty pounds, 

 because you are then getting a lot of that good hog food, which 

 is worth considering. Whenever we come before an audience 

 of this kind, we should be careful to make our statements plain. 



It seems, when we look at the charts showing the way cows 

 and sheep have been diminishing in New England, that there 

 is something the trouble somewhere, and where can it be? 

 There is certainlv a cause for it. In a town I know of, where 



