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READINGS IN RURAL ECONOMICS 



creamery men urged patrons to cash their checks at the stores 

 rather than at the bank. Later experience has convinced the 

 merchants that they as well as the creamery men and the 

 farmers have benefited by the change. 



Diagram IV. Relative Proportion of Eggs shipped Each Month from January, 



1909, to August, 1912, at a Private Creamery in East Central Minnesota; also 



the Average Price paid per Dozen Each Month 



The main difficulty in this creamery man's experience with 

 the egg business has been to get the farmers to furnish a uniform 

 grade of eggs. With the wide variety of chickens represented 

 in the community, eggs of different sizes and colors are mixed 

 together. In order to encourage uniformity they adopted the 

 plan for a while of paying one cent more per dozen for white 



