STUDIES IN THE MARKETING OF FARM PROD- 

 UCTS IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND 



IMKTT K. CARVER AND GRAFTON L. WILSON, COLLABORATORS 

 IN IHK < )n i K OF MARKETS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARI 

 OF AGRICULTURE DURING THE SUMMER OF 1913 



(Printed by permission of the Office of Markets and Rural Organization, 

 United States Department of Agriculture) 



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CHARENTE BUTTER 

 BY KM MI IT K. CARVER 



EYKR since the advent of the Phylloxera in the department of 

 ' Charcnte, and the consequent destruction of the vineyards, 

 the cooperative creameries have been a great source of wealth to 

 the farmers. These creameries have spread throughout the de- 

 partment of Vendee, Deux-Sevres, the two Charentes, and Viennc. 

 Those- visited were in Charente and Deux-Sevres. Nearly all the 

 creameries are members of an association which has as a nucleus 

 overnment creamery school, and their methods and organiza- 

 tion are very similar throughout the country. We will take one of 

 the most successful creameries, that at St. Christophe-sur-Roc, near 

 Xiort, and trace its butter from the milk to tin- consumer, and 

 thm compare this creamery with other creameries of tlu- d 



The St. Christophe creamery is the property of an association 

 of farmers. Any farmer living within collecting distance of the 

 creamery may become a member. 



h morning the milk is collected in carts by employees of 

 the creamery. In most CK -amencs this is charged to the farmer, 

 but the creamery in question does it for nothing. The ere 

 separated immediately on collection and the skim milk is returned 

 to the farmers th< day \v!u-n the whole milk is coll- 



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