212 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



On this basis the extreme prices would stand thus : best 

 price, twenty-four cents per can ; after deduction, twenty- 

 two cents per can. 



The actual price received would vibrate somewhere be- 

 tween the two prices, or net twenty-three cents. In a circle 

 still nearer the city, transportation costs a cent less, but 

 must stand a like deduction, which, on the same calculation, 

 would net twenty-four cents. For this country supply of 

 milk we make the followino; fio-ures : — 



100 pounds milk, at 23 cents per can, f 1 27 



100 pounds milk, at 24 cents per can, 1 32 



The cost of delivering milk to the train is estimated to 

 average through a neighborhood two cents per can. Deduct- 

 ing this from above prices, would leave net at the farm : — 



100 pounds milk, at 21 cents per can, . . ... $1 16 

 100 pounds milk, at 22 cents jDer can, 1 21 



Hecapitulation. 

 Placing the results of this examination of these several 

 methods of disposing of the milk product of the farm side 

 by side, we have the following : — 



One hundred pounds sale-milk at the farm in each of the outer circles of 

 the Boston supply, — 



At 21 cents, $1 16 



At 22 cents 121 



At station, — 



At 23 cents, $1 27 



At 24 cents, 1 32 



Made into cheese at factory, — 



Cured, at 12 cents, $1 24 



Green, at 12 cents, 1 28 



North Turner factory paid, . . . . 1 15 



Made into cheese at farm, — 



Early cheese, at 14 cents, $1 54 



Average for season, at 12 cents, . . . 1 44 



September and October make, at 12 cents, . 1 62 



Made into butter at factory, with skim-milk added, — 



Sale-milk butter, sold at 22 cents a pound, . f 1 30 



Rich-milk butter, sold at 22 cents a pound, . 1 49 



Rich-milk butter, sold at 25 cents a pound, . 1 64 



