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affords formers to judge of the value of their cows. I know 

 that in the short time that our creamery has been in operation, 

 some of our farmers have been very much disappointed in 

 the quality of their cows. It is a co-operative concern ; each 

 one knows prett}' well what the others are doing, and when 

 one fanner finds that he is getting only seven or eight spaces 

 of cream to a can of milk, and learns that his neijyhbor is iret- 

 ting twelve or tiftecn, he begins to ask what is the trouble, 

 wherein is the difference, and he is stimulated to improve 

 his stock. There is a point that will in a few years affect a 

 great change in the value of the dairy stock of the country. 



Mr. Ware has asked a question in regard to the price 

 which farmers are getting for their milk at the Victories. It 

 depends, of course, on the quality of the milk. I can tell 

 what my milk has brought me per quart. That is, I can 

 tell him how much milk it takes to make a pound of butter. 

 It takes a little less than nine quarts, on the average, the 

 year through. Three or four years ago, when I had facilities 

 for keeping accurate accounts and had an equal number of 

 cows through the year, I found that I got two hundred and 

 fifty pounds of butter from each cow, and the butter netted 

 me thirty-one cents a pound. It is very easily figured what 

 the {jross return from each cow was. 



Mr. Root. What did I understand Mr. Wheeler to say 

 was the net income per pound for butter from the creamery? 



Mr. Wheeler. I don't know exactly. The Urst return, 

 I think, was twenty cents a pound, and it has been of late, 

 I think, about twenty-seven or twenty-eight cents. 



Question. What is the expense of manufacturing per 

 pound? 



Mr. WiiEELEU. I would not undertake to say from 

 memory. I have only been part of the season a i)atron my- 

 self, and have not had the details of the manufacture. I 

 know that the butter at our creamery has commanded a 

 price above the market. I know that buyers from New 

 York have been there, and when the quotations were twenty- 

 .seven or twenty-eight cents a pound, they have offered 

 thirty-three cents for it at the factory, which Avas a good 

 deal better than the farmers who were making their own 

 butter were getting. I presume that the expense- of making 



