206' THE BUSINESS OF DAIRYING 



fat should bring 52 cents per gallon ; 25 per cent, fat 

 63 cents, and 30 per cent, fat, 75 cents per gallon. 



The creamery should pay 32 cents per pound for 

 butter fat, and butter should sell' for 23.5 cents. 

 Values have also been worked out for milk contain- 

 ing 4, 4.5 and 5 per cent, fat, when sold for differ- 

 ent prices per gallon. By glancing at this table, 

 the dairyman should be able to tell how he can dis- 

 pose of his milk most profitably. Minimum and 

 maximum prices ordinarily received for milk at 

 wholesale are given, and if higher or lower prices 

 are received, it will be easy to make computations 

 from the figures presented. In making these com- 

 putations, skim milk and buttermilk have been val- 

 ued at 20 cents per hundred. The freight on milk 

 has been figured at 2 cents per gallon and cream 

 3 cents, as these are the charges commonly made 

 within a radius of 50 miles of the larger cities. No 

 allowance has been made for hauling. As this va- 

 ries greatly under different conditions, each farmer 

 can best calculate it for himself. There would be 

 but little difference in the charge for hauling to the 

 creamery or shipping station, and where butter is 

 made, the labor will usually be equal to that of haul- 

 ing the whole milk. 



The difference in the amount of fertility sold in 

 milk, cream or butter (see page 18) also has a bear- 

 ing upon this question of comparative prices. 



It will be noticed that dealer No. 2, for instance, 

 delivered milk the first week containing 7.3 per cent, 

 of fat, the second week it dropped to 3.8, and the 

 third week to nearly 3; the fourth week the same as 



