THE DAIRY. 295 



has a much less percentage of cream than during the next 

 five months, and therefore is it a fair estimate? 



Mr. Waee. Most likely that is the fact; but you will 

 remember the five months included a part of the winter 

 months, and then they were nearer new milch cows than 

 they were the latter part of the five months. Probably 

 the milk would not be quite as rich, on an average, as it 

 would be taking the whole year through. I presume that 

 might be so. 



Mr. CiHLDS. Instead of saying " not quite as rich," I 

 should say that the milk produced in February, compared 

 with the milk of the same cow the first wx'ck in November, 

 for instance, would be not over two-thirds as rich. 



Mr. Ware. That is a matter of conjecture. 



Mr. Myrick. This matter of the payment per quart for 

 milk, as we have had it explained here, is a pretty hard thing 

 to get at. The report from the Experiment Station is proba- 

 bly figured quite accurately. Dr. Goessmann never makes 

 mistakes in such matters, l)ut I should depend more upon the 

 results in creameries in actual operation than upon any two 

 cows for any five months, at any place. There are creameries 

 in operation in this State in milk-shipping towais. There is 

 one at Lancaster, there is one at North Rrooktield, there is 

 one up in New Hampshire. At Whitins, where they used to 

 sell milk, they have started a creamery, and the farmers in 

 those places arc uniformly better pleased with the present 

 .system than they were when they sold milk to contractors. 

 Very few of them leave the creamery to sell whole milk. 

 Down in Connecticut, where they have some forty-live 

 creameries, they get from three-quarters of a cent to one 

 cent and a quarter a (|uait for their skim milk at the door, 

 taken by peddlers, and they get what they claim and what 

 they believe is equivalent to one and three-(]uarters cents per 

 quart in summer, or two cents (they n)ostly figure it at two 

 cents in sunnner),and two and a half cents in winter for 

 their milk. That is to say, the cream from a quart of milk 

 gives them a return equal to aliout two cents in summer and 

 two and a quarter or two and a half in winter, and on top 

 of that they get what the skim milk is worth. It is the 

 actual exi)erience of these creameries in milk-shipping sec- 



