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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



List of Massachusetts Farms making Milk of Superior Quality and 

 Cleanliness and selling their Product higher than the Regular Mar- 

 ket Price — Concluded. 



NoTK. — Deerfoot Farm Dairy, office 9 Bosworth Place, Boston, with milk depots at both 

 Southborough and Northborough, sells milk of superior quality and cleanliness at a price 

 above that of ordinary market milk, and handles the product of 129 dairy farms, averaging 

 about 10 cows each, located in Southborough, Northborough, Westborough and HoUiston. 

 Most of these farms, therefore, at some time during the year come properly within the 

 requirements of this list. The method of payment of this milk is explained in the following 

 extract from a letter from the proprietor, Mr. Robert M. Burnett: "The milk from all our 

 farms is tested once or twice a week on delivery at the dairy, samples being taken by 

 Professor Prescott's agent. When the milk is found to contain below 25,000 bacteria per 

 cubic centimeter, and cows, feed, water and stable conditions are reported by Dr. J. W. 

 Robinson as healthful and satisfactory, and the average test is not lower than 4}^ per cent, 

 butter fat, the price paid is 50 cents per can at the Deerfoot Dairy for the full yield all 

 the year around. For any milk passing the above conditions, of good quality, testing below 

 4)4 per cent, butter fat, we pay 45 cents per can for such proportion as we can bottle. For 

 the balance of the milk not bottled, and for the milk from farms not meeting the condi- 

 tions required for bottled milk, we pay the price agreed upon between the Milk Producers 

 Association and the Contractors Union. For the month of December, 1912, this compact 

 was with 129 farms averaging about 10 cows to the farm." 



The foregoing list is necessarily incomplete owing to the fact 

 that all returns had not been received at the close of the year. 



