BUYING MII,K AND CREAM 47 



the place of skimming back to the farm and again the farmer 

 hauled his cream to the creamery. 



This system, whereby the farmer hauls his own cream to 

 the creamery has the advantage that the creamery comes in 

 constant and individual contact with its patrons. Any disputes 

 arising over quality and weights and tests can be readily, quickly 

 and usually satisfactorily settled, misunderstandings are in- 

 frequent because the two contracting parties know each other 

 and in case of dissatisfaction, the weighing and testing can be 

 done in the presence of the patron, giving him an opportunity 

 to convince himself of the correctness of the work. 



Again, the farmer who hauls his own cream, usually de- 

 livers it at reasonably frequent intervals. This enables the 

 creamery to secure a fairly fresh cream of good quality and if 

 the quality is not as it should be, the trouble can be explained 

 and instructions for improvement given at the platform direct 

 to the patron himself. 



The greatest drawback to this system lies in the fact that 

 it limits the cream supply territory to a very narrow radius, 

 which does not permit of material extension. The individual 

 patron refuses to haul his cream a long distance. This system 

 is adapted only to sections of the country where the dairy in- 

 dustry has reached a high state of development, where dairying 

 is the principle business, where the herds are of good size and 

 in close proximity, where the cow population is dense. In ter- 

 ritories where the dairy industry is as yet in its infancy, where 

 dairying is merely a side issue of beef-, grain-, or fruit-farming, 

 where the herds are small and far apart, and where the cow 

 population is sparse, the creamery could not secure enough raw 

 material to operate on a profitable basis by this system of secur- 

 ing cream. 



The Cream Route System. In this system the creamery 

 establishes routes and the hauling of cream is done by cream 

 haulers engaged by the creamery. The hauler collects the 

 cream at the farmer's door, where he weighs and samples it. 

 The cream route system is the natural outcome of centralization 

 of cream delivery. By it, one man, the cream hauler, with one 

 team or truck, and traveling over the route but once is capable 



