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cream and made 4, 765 pounds of butter, all of which sold at 33 cents per pound at 

 creamery. Patrons received 4 cents per space for cream, equivalent to about 28.76 

 cents per pound for butter. Average cost of manufacture 4.76 cents per pound. 



Canton (Connecticut) Creamery received in December 87,299 Cooley spaces of 

 cream and made 13,480 pounds of butter. Patrons received 4| cents per space for 

 cream, equivalent to 26.69 cents per pound for butter. 



Colchester (Connecticut) Creamery received in December 30,088 Cooley spaces of 

 cream and made 4,184 pounds of butter; sold 4,180 pounds at 28 to 33 cents per 

 pound. Average cost of manufacture 7.59 cents per pound. Patrons received 3 

 cents per space for cream, equivalent to 25.16 cents per pound for butter. It re- 

 quired 7.19 spaces of cream to make 1 pound of butter. 



Annual reports for 1888. 



Conway (Massachusetts) Creamery received in the twelve months ended January 

 1, 1,409,972 Cooley spaces of cream and made 229,352 pounds of butter. The average 

 cost of manufacture was 4.15 cents per pound. Average price paid patrons for 

 cream 3.912 cents per space. . 



Windsor (Connecticut) Creamery received in the twelve months ended January 

 1, 663,078 Cooley spaces of cream and made 102,725 pounds of butter. The patrons 

 received an average of 3.73 cents per space for cream, equivalent to 24.29 cents per 

 pound for butter. The average spaces of cream required per pound of butter were 

 6.49. The total average cost of manufacture, selling, etc., was 5f cents per pound. 

 The highest price paid for cream was 4 cents for October cream, and the lowest 

 was 3 cents for June cream. 



The LeGrange Creamery near Poughkeepsie, N. Y., had sales of $18,048.66 for the 

 year 1888. Its expenses were only $2,884.55, and it returned the patrons $15,- 

 164.11. The business of the creamery by months is presented below, showing that 

 the average price returned to patrons was over 25 cents per pound for the whole 

 year. It took 6.62 spaces as the average for the year to make a pound of butter, 

 varying from 6.21 to 6.9; the butter sold at 26| to 34| cents, averaging 30 cents. 



The following statement shows the business of the co-operative 

 cream-gathering butter factory at Ipswich, Mass., for 1888. This 

 factory is in a milk-shipping section, but it will be noticed that it re- 

 turned its patrons a net price (within a fraction) of 26 cents per 

 pound for every pound of butter made during the year. As it did 

 not take over 20 pounds of milk to make 1 pound of butter at 

 this factory, this payment is equivalent to nearly 1 cents per pound 

 of milk, or between 2-J and 3 cents per quart for the milk from the 

 cream alone, leaving the skim milk on the farm. Farmers 'who sell 

 whole milk to the contractors who ship to large city markets do not 

 receive on the average much over this price. Indeed, an average of 

 three cents per quart for whole milk the year round is above the 

 average prices paid to farmers who supply the cities of Boston and 

 New York. Consequently, this factory and others that have been 

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