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better wages. In order to induce the patrons to 

 supply as large a quantity of milk as possible it is 

 advisable to offer some inducement by way of extra 

 price to those who continue throughout the year, or 

 lower the price for manufacturing in case the make 

 exceeds a certain quantity. Managers of factories 

 can well afford to do this, as the cost of manufacturing, 

 a large quantity of butter or cheese is much less per 

 pound than the cost of making a pound of goods in 

 a small factory. 



The chief advantages of co-operative dairying are : 



1. A better and more uniform product is obtained, 

 which usually sells for a higher price than private 

 dairy goods. The product will also be greater from 

 the milk, unless the private dairyman has good 

 utensils and a proper dairy managed by a skilful 

 person. 



2. The actual cost of manufacturing a pound of 

 butter or cheese is less. The expense of equipping 

 one hundred private dairies at $200 each would be 

 $20,000, whereas one-tenth of this sum would equip 

 a co-operative concern to handle all the milk from 

 these one hundred farms. Instead of having one 

 hundred persons making the milk into butter or 

 cheese, two or three persons would be able to do all 

 the work in a factory, thus saving human energy. 



3. More skilful labor and better machinery may be 

 employed in the co-operative dairy as compared with 

 average private dairies. 



4. Co-operative dairying reduces the labor on the 

 farm, thus relieving the tired farmer's wife from much 



