38 BOAIU) OF AGRICULTUliE. [Pub. Doc. 



Advantages. 



First, to secure a good market ; second, to be reasonably 

 sure of getting pay for their product. 



The association does all its collecting, sending teams out 

 into the country at a distance of thirteen miles, and taking 

 out the clean cans, which have been washed at the associa- 

 tion's plant, and which have been thoroughly sterilized with 

 steam, — each can is put over a steam jet of 60 pounds 

 pressure. The farmer has no cans to wash, no milk to 

 transport, and all the milk he makes is taken, even a part 

 of a can. You will see at once that this is a great help to 

 him ; no washing of cans, no transportation of the product, 

 giving the farmer much valuable time to turn in other 

 directions. 



jSize of Cans. 



Each can will hold 10 quarts of milk, — no more. Is 

 there any reason why you should give 101^^ quarts or 11 

 quarts, and only get pay for 10 quarts ? This was the system 

 when the association was started, and is in force in some 

 sections of our State to-da3^ In other words, a man keep- 

 ing 20 cows keeps 2 of the cows to give the product away 

 to the purchaser of milk in full cans. It would be as reason- 

 able to give 65 pounds for a bushel of potatoes, instead of 

 60 pounds, established by law. 



Growth. 



In the year 1884 there were received at this association 

 about 125,000 quarts per month, doing a business of $5,500 

 per month ; now there are received about 350,000 to 400,000 

 quarts a month, and we do a business of $25,000 per month. 



At the present time we have 250 farms producing milk 

 and 150 farms producing cream. 



We keep 40 horses, employ 35 hands, own and operate a 

 large creamery in Washington County, New York State, and 

 buy very large quantities of product on the outside. 



