454 



From October to Deceiuber, cheese to the number of 1,297, weighing 45,045 pounds, 

 ■was manufactured in fourteen locations. Of butter-milk was obtained, (Swedish cans :) 



October. ' Novem'ber. 



Stockholm. 

 Nykoping . 

 Oerebro . . . 



19, 018 



23,400 

 224 



December. 



22,600 

 786 

 556 



Jannary. 



2.'), 265 

 1.382 

 2,211 



February. 



23,655 

 1,710 



5,085 



Eegarding the prices obtained for their products, the Stockholm association pub- 

 lishes the following current rates in their competition with others ia the London mar- 

 ket. The figures are in shillings per hundred- weight, (112 pounds :) 



The establifchment at Stockholm, sold toinland customers in October 1,448.50 pounds ; 

 in November, 1,447. CO pounds ; in December, 1,716.25 pounds ; January, 1,981.50 pounds; 

 February, 1,875 pounds of butter. The maturing of cheese requires, in general, six 

 months ; a small part of the production only had been sold at 21 oere per pound. 



From the Stockholm establishment cheese was sold : October, 7,700 pounds ; Novem- 

 ber, 8,fcC0 pounds ; December, 11,4*20 pounds ; January, 11,052 i^ounds ; February, 12,576 

 pounds. 



By contract the establishment furnished on every week-day 2,000 cans, (1,382.7 

 gallons, United States;) on each Sunday, 1,200 cans (829.6 gallons, United States) of 

 skimmed milk, at 14 oere per can, (5.58 cents per gallon. United States,) and all butter- 

 milk obtained at 1\ oere per can, (7.82 cents per gallon, United States.) 



The whey from the manufacture of cheese, as far as not fed to the swine owned by 

 the establishment, was disxiosed of at 1 oere per can, (0.397 cent per gallon, United 

 States.) 



The efforts of the company to reduce the expense of transportation has met with 

 great success. They now receive the cream in high vessels of tinned sheet-iron, from 

 distances of fifty to seventy English miles, in winter per wagon, in the summer per 

 ship, &c.; nothing is drawn from the immediate vicinity of the capital. 



The smallest Cjuantity accepted is 10 cans, (26.17 liters or 6.914 Cjuarts, United 

 States.) Immediately alter purchase, the cream delivered under one name is weighed, 

 and then (especially in the warmer season) placed into large oblong vats filled with 

 ice-water, after which each quantity under one name is converted into butter, in order 

 to notice the result in butter of each and to compute its higher or lower price. One can 

 (6 pounds =:5.G2 pounds, United States) of cream yields at an average li pounds (1.405 

 pounds, United States) butter. (One United States gallon cream = 2.50 United States 

 pounds butter.) 



The butter destined for exportation is variously treated ; that for the London market 

 has added 5 or l\ per cent, of salt; for the Scotch market 4 per cent, only, and that for 

 St. Petersburg (Paris butter from boiled cream) remains unsalted. 



The butter prepared in the Stockholm establishment leaves daily from 2,000 to 3,000 

 cans (1,382 to 2,074 gallons. United States) of butter-milk, which, as before stated, sells 

 at 7i oere per can, (2.84 cents per gallon, United States.) The butter is prepared iu five 

 vats, 3 each of CO cans, (41.48 gallons,) and two smaller. Care is taken that the tem- 

 perature of the cream, when tilled into the vats, has 12° (celsius) in the warmer, 14° 

 in the cold season. Even in summer the cream is not suffered to pass above 14'^, and 

 in order to regulate the temperature a thermometer-pipe is attached to each vat, and 

 the required degree can be enforced by addition of ice-water. The A'ats are upright 

 wooden vessels, langed iu one line and put iu motion by a steam-machine of four-horse 

 power. 



