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adjust the supply. As the farmers are the sellers, they see 

 at once the necessity of the rule. 



The success of a co-operative movement like this is due 

 to the hearty support which each farmer gives to his part of 

 the work. 



Price or Milk. 



The idea of one price for all milk — good, bad and indif- 

 ferent — is wrong. The price of butter changes as to grade ; 

 the price of eggs, beef and other products changes as to the 

 supply and demand ; but the price of milk goes on forever 

 at the same old price ; shortage of market milk, caused by 

 drought, high prices of grain, — in fact, no extraordinary 

 condition can interfere with the price of this very impor- 

 tant food. This is not as it should be. We frequently find 

 that one quart of milk contains twice the food value of an- 

 other, yet both are sold at the same price. The fact that an 

 anah^sis of a number of samples of milk shows a wide differ- 

 ence in composition demonstrates at once that at a uniform 

 price per quart there is an equally wide variation in the cost 

 of its nutrients to the consumer. It will be seen, from a 

 study of the average composition of milk, that as the total 

 solids increase the percentage of fat is increased, in greater 

 proportion than solids not fat. The consumer not only 

 secures his total solids in the rich milk at a lower cost per 

 pound, but he also obtains a product which is very much 

 richer in material to supply the body wdth heat and energy. 



These facts regarding the variation in the cost and quality 

 of the food values contained therein clearly show that the 

 standard in use at present as a basis of sale, viz., a quart of 

 milk, is illogical and unfair to the producer, the distributer 

 and the consumer alike. In the sale of milk the percentage 

 of butter fat should be taken as the standard, rather than 

 the quart. 



The public are demanding better milk. They begin to 

 see the advantages of high-grade milk, and when such is ob- 

 tained people are willing to pay the extra cost of production . 



