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Answer : You have touched us '^n one weak point. I put 

 out a notice some time ago that we would sell skim-milk to the 

 fai-mers at five cents less per ten gallon can than what we paid 

 him for a hundred pounds. If you were delivering at the Au- 

 burn creamery at the present time, we would pay you 60 cents 

 per hundred weight, and if we followed that rule that I get out 

 to all of our creameries everywhere, we should be charging 

 you 55 cents per can for skim-milk, but the farmers have turned 

 in milk so much faster than we could get the trade for it, the 

 lowest price to the farmer now would be 50 cents per can. 

 They would not pay that, and we could not sell it in the milk, 

 and what could we do? Shall I stick to what I have said, or 

 shall I back down and meet the conditions and sell that milk for 

 something? As a matter of fact, in just that one particular 

 point we are not getting the same from all farmers. That does 

 not sound very good. Here is a creamery over in the country 

 somewhere, six or eight miles from a railroad station ; the 

 demand is big ; we do not need the milk from that creamery ; 

 we do not need to tell the patrons they must change over, but 

 we do not need to cart that milk to the station, ship it to 

 Auburn, and then be unable to sell it and have to make casein 

 of it. The creameries write in and say, "The farmers won't 

 pay your price." What shall we do? I tell them to sell for 

 what they can get. That is one weak spot ; find another if you 

 can. I have confessed to this one. 



Mr. Adams: "Confession is good for the soul." 

 Question : One question I wish to ask, of the private dairy- 

 man, of the man who does not get anything from his skim-milk. 

 Just how many cents per quart would you value it for feeding 

 purposes ? 



Answer : I think a price cannot be set on skim-milk. 1 

 believe one man made a statement that he would not take a 

 dollar per hundred for his skim-milk. Therefore, the value of 

 skim-milk depends on what you are using it for. 

 Question: Is 50 cents a fair value? 

 Answer: It is too much. 



Answer : Depends on what you feed it to. It is worth 

 about 25 cents per hundred to calves, about 50 cents to feed to 

 hens. 



