Why It Pays to Make Butter on the Farm 11 



expenses for a year, and we daresay that the figure 

 will open your eyes. 



You Pocket Middleman's Profit. 



You know that there is really something to this idea 

 about selling direct from the producer to the con- 

 sumer, cutting out the middleman's rakeoff. In a 

 great many lines it has meant a great deal to both the 

 producer and the consumer in the farming business 

 perhaps more than any other. Why not carry the 

 idea to the dairy end of your business, make your 

 butter at home and ship direct to the consumer or 

 retail distributer and get a price that includes the cost 

 of manufacturing in the creamery or centralizer, the 

 commission man's profit, the wholesaler's profit, and 

 something of the carrying profit by railroad or ex- 

 press? Add up these various profits and you have a 

 pretty neat sum, often from 5c to lOc on each pound. 



You Pocket Creamery Manufacturing Costs. 



The manufacturing costs in a big creamery, whether 

 it is a co-operative creamery or a centralizer, is an- 

 other very important consideration. Take the co-op- 

 erative creamery for instance. You get more money 

 for your cream in that enterprise than you do from 

 the city centralizers or commission men. But look at 

 what it costs to run the creamery the salary of a but- 

 termaker, the interest and depreciation on an invest- 

 ment of about $5,000 worth of building and machinery, 

 a high rate of insurance, power and upkeep, etc. Out 

 of your cream check has to come your proportion of 

 the sum total of these expenses. 



