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READINGS IN RURAL ECONOMICS 



demand for. It treats about 40 tons of milk a day, collecting 

 it from a radius of up to 15 kilometers in motor vans. The 

 cooperative creamery treats about 23 tons of milk a day. 



These creameries pay about 12 centimes a kilo for milk con- 

 taining 3.85 per cent butter-fat. This would make the price of 

 enough milk to make one kilo of butter 2.65 francs (51 cents). 

 They receive, as a rule, 2.90 francs per kilo of butter, which 

 leaves 25 centimes to pay the expenses of making, packing, etc. 

 These creameries keep the skim milk, however, which is generally 

 worth about 2 centimes a kilo. This makes about 70 centimes 

 to pay for the making of I kilo of butter. 



These creameries sell wherever they find a buyer. Butter sold 

 to Paris is first chilled and then sent by fast freight over night. 

 The freight varies from 65 centimes to 1.25 francs a basket. 



The Paris retailers sell it at an average price of 4 francs. 

 When the butter is very fresh it brings a little more ; when 

 slightly old a little less. A vertical section through the steps 

 through which a kilo of this butter passes is as follows (the 

 butter was sold to a small Parisian seller of butter, eggs, etc.) : 



