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There have been compiled from these statements the figures shown 

 in the first part of Table 5. Only those creameries making an average 

 of 18.5 per cent or more, overrun have been considered in these aver- 

 ages. The creameries making these reports are situated in Iowa, Minne- 

 sota and Wisconsin. Many of them are very small plants, and a few 

 quite large. The average amount paid to the farmers is interesting when 

 compared with the New York quotations for the same months. In gath- 

 ering these statistics it was difficult to secure information from the 

 large centralized creameries. They considered that it was no business 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture as to what they paid to the farmers 

 for cream as received for their butter. As a result they have not been 

 urged to make reports but, incidentally, a report has come into our hands 

 showing what one of the large creameries paid during the first nine 

 months of 1907. 



TABLE No. VI. 



Difference in Prices. 



Month 



Individual 

 Creameries 

 Paid Over 

 New York 

 Quotations 



Centralizer 

 Paid Less 

 Than New 

 York Quo- 

 tations 



Difference 

 in Favor of 

 Individual 



January 



February 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September.., 



Averages 



1.76 



2.30 



.44 



.29 



Same 



1.51 



1.19 



1.78 



2.27 



1.28 



2.33 

 3.14 

 2.41 

 2.62 

 3.87 

 3.93 

 3.64 

 3.46 

 4.15 



3.39 



4.09 

 5.44 

 2.85 

 3.91 

 3.87 

 5.44 

 4.83 

 5.24 

 6.42 



4.67 



Table 6 shows the difference between the price actually paid by the 

 small creameries and the New York quotations, and that paid by the 

 central plant in question and the New York quotations. It will be noted 

 here that the small creameries paid an average of 1.28c above the New 

 York quotations and that the centralizer in question paid 3.39c less than 

 the New York quotation, or 4.67c less than the amount paid by the small 

 creameries. 



It has been asserted that the prices offered by the central creameries 

 in Iowa and other northern states compare more favorably with the 

 prices paid by the coperative and individual creameries in those states 

 than this table seems to indicate. This probably is true, as the prices 

 are given for the particular centralizer in a more southern state where 

 there are practically no co-operative creameries and not over 50 or 60 

 creameries of any kind in existence, with 90 per cent of those central- 

 izers on a greater or lesser scale. My personal knowledge of the locality 

 where these prices were paid leads me to believe that were there 

 an appreciable number of active, aggressive co-operative creameries in that 

 state, the prices paid would be materially advanced. That there are 

 many localities in the state under consideration where co-operative 

 creameries could exist there is no doubt. 



