22 VERMONT DAIRYMEN'S REPORT. 



factory and realized less for it. I began to obtain less for dairy 

 butter. We send our milk to the factory and every month get a 

 check which almost pays the meal bill. 



Mr. Choate. I was persuaded to put my milk into the 

 creamery. I told them I would deliver it one year and did so. 

 When I got through, I figured up, and never had done so poorly. 

 I was satisfied that taking milk to the creamery is not the way 

 for a man, especially a young man, to pay a mortgage. If a 

 man cannot make good butter, he had better carry the milk to 

 the creamery. If he can make good butter, he should keep the 

 milk at home. 



President Smith. I would like to ask how much it costs to 

 make butter at home. I would like to hear expressions from a 

 number. I heard a statement made at a Dairymen's meeting two 

 years ago that it would cost eight cents a pound to make butter 

 at home, and I made the statement that I believed it could be 

 made at home for two cents a pound . 



Mr. Kennerson. I have made butter for a number of years. 

 The last few years I have let my boys make it. They finally 

 took it to the creamery, and in a short time found that they 

 couldn't afford it, that they were losing money. It often takes 

 more time to go to the creamery than to make the butter. If one 

 lives close to the creamery, of course, one can save this. 



Mr. Barrows. I am strongly in favor of the creamery. We 

 started a creamery in Coventry the 20th day of June. The 

 creamery furnishes everything, and gets the butter ready for 

 the market. There is no expense to the farmer, and it costs 

 him to make this butter less than two cents per pound. If 

 there is anyone who thinks he can make it for less than two 

 cents per pound, I would like to know it. 



Member. I don't think it costs me one cent. 



Mr. Wright. It costs about five cents to manufacture but- 

 from actual figures. I know whereof I speak, for I made butter 

 in a creamery for some years. When our creamery started they 

 did not have much cream. They had to urge farmers to get 

 them to bring their cream. Now don't you think I could make 

 butter for five cents per pound ? To-day they are charging five 

 cents per pound for making butter. 



Mr. Underwood. I am managing a creamery in this place. 

 I would say that I think for the last year it has cost us a frac- 

 tion under three cents per pound, which includes separators. 

 There are one or two points made in the paper and in the dis- 

 cussion upon which I wish to dwell for a minute. If the farmer 

 has conveniences, he can make his butter as well as take it 

 to the creamery, if he has a good market. Probably there is 

 no creamery in existence that can do better than the private 

 dairy. You may think this is a queer statement for me to make, 



