THE MARKETS FOR WHOLE MILK 



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Membership in Dairymen's League 



ficiently large and regular supply close at hand, estab- 

 lished a milk plant in a rather new section, hoping to build 

 up a milk business there to supply its growing wants in the 

 city. Very often milk companies make arrangements with 

 outlying creameries or cheese factories whereby they agree 

 to take the whole output of such creameries or facto- 

 ries or such portion of the output as they require, pay- 

 ing therefor enough to net the seller a little more than 

 what he could get if the milk were made into cheese or but- 

 ter. For a number of years prior to 1916 a Milwaukee con- 

 cern had such arrangements with a creamery lying in the 

 edge of the Sheboygan cheese district. The milk of this 

 company was taken during only a portion of each year. 

 In other instances certain concerns in the outer edge of 

 the milk zone make arrangements to buy milk from pro- 

 ducers and sell it wherever they can get the best price. In 

 New York State large numbers of concerns are doing a 

 business of that kind, making part of the time cheese or 

 butter and at other times selling the cream to ice-cream 

 factories and at still other times sending the whole milk 

 to New York or to some other city. 



