298 ELEMENTS OF FARM- PRACTICE 



Questions: 



1. What was the cause of the low price formerly paid for butter? 



2. Give the three principles of successful marketing. 



3. Why does a co-operative creamery sometimes fail? 



Arithmetic: 



1. If a farmer keeps 12 cows and each produces 3^ lb. of butter- 

 fat per day, how many pounds of butter-fat will he get per week? 

 How many pounds of 25% cream will he get per week? (1 lb. of butter- 

 fat will make 4 lbs. of 25% cream.) 



2. How much should a farmer receive, if he sells 168 lbs. of 25% 

 cream at 30c. per pound for butter-fat? 



3. How much less would he receive per week for his 168 lbs. 

 of cream, if he were paid but 27c. per pound for butter-fat? If he 

 lost $1.26 per week, how much would he lose in 1 year? 



4. How much less would he receive, if he were paid 30c. per 

 pound, but his 168 lbs. of cream tested but 22% butter-fat? 



MARKETING EGGS 



Fresh Eggs Scarce in Cities. — It is no easy matter for 

 people in town to secure good, fresh eggs whenever they 

 want them. Thousands in every large city are willing to 

 pay good, and even fancy prices for eggs, if they can be sure 

 of getting a strictly first-class article. 



How Eggs Are Marketed. — The common way of hand- 

 ling eggs is about as follows : Eggs are gathered at irregular 

 intervals, then about once a week they are taken to town 

 and sold or traded to a grocer, who pays one price for all 

 kinds of eggs — ^white, brown, small, large, dirty or clean — 

 and mixes them all together. Some of these eggs are one 

 day old and some are two weeks or more old. The mer- 

 chant sets them in his storeroom with ill-smelling materials, 

 as meats, oils, etc., and some of these odors are absorbed 

 by the eggs. This mixed case, with other similar cases, is 

 then sent to a commission merchant, who may sell them to 

 a city grocer at once or store them. After more or less 

 delay these eggs are offered for sale to city people, and it 

 is little wonder that the housekeeper hesitates to buy them. 



One Man's Experience. — A poultry man living near a 

 large city sells all his eggs to a certain grocer. The eggs 

 are gathered every day and the date stamped on each egg. 

 Eggs of uniform size and color are put in small cartons or 

 paper cases, holding one dozen each. The cartons are sealed 

 with a label on which is printed a statement that the eggs 



