2 BULLETIN 548, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



offset this advantage, especially for the production of cheese and 

 butter. The long summer months are warm, with a lower rainfall 

 than the winter months, while in the extensive dairy sections of 

 Wisconsin and New York the highest rainfall is during the summer 

 months, which average 7 to 8 degrees cooler than in Kentucky. 

 These adverse conditions have not interfered with the increased 

 production of market milk where there is a demand at good prices, 

 but they are a handicap especially in the production of cheese, 

 which is produced to best advantage in a climate that is relatively 

 cool. 



Most of the dairy farms in the region have developed near such 

 large cities as Cincinnati and Louisville, where large quantities of 

 milk and cream may be marketed. Lexington, a city of about 

 40,000 inhabitants, and several other towns of 5,000 to 15,000, 

 furnish a market for a few dairy farms in the central part of the 

 bluegrass region. 



RECEIPTS FROM DAIRY PRODUCTS, TOGETHER WITH LABOR INCOMES, 

 ON EACH OF TEN FARMS. 



The business of each of the 10 farms studied may be summarized 

 briefly, as follows: 



Table I. — Size of farms, with number of cows and with receipts from labor income and 



dairy products. 



Farm Xo. 



Size 



of 



farm. 



Num- 

 ber of 

 cows. 



Labor 

 income. 



Gross 



receipts 



from milk. 



Receipts 

 from 

 cream. 



Receipts 



from 



butter. 



Gross 

 receipts 

 per cow. 



1 



400 



290 



247 



150 



51 



86 



82 



70 



134 



120 



75 

 30 



19 

 50 

 15 



9 

 30 



4 

 12 

 12 



$1, 466 



3,654 



1,739 



6,408 



3,201 



1,121 



1,509 



'0 



287 



2 



$5, 315 

 4,500 

 3,066 

 6,768 

 2,920 

 76 

 2,966 



$2, 101 





$98. 88 



2 



150. 00 



3 



730 

 1,128 

 225 

 1,996 

 480 

 208 

 624 

 104 



$25 

 260 



780 



199.78 



4 



158. 00 



5 



227. 00 



6 



230. 00 



7 



114. 86 



8 



52.00 



9 



52.00 



10 



73.60 







Average of all 



163 



27 



1,773 



2,561 



689 



106 



126. 16 



i This farm fell S139 short of paying expenses, including interest on investment. 

 2 This farm fell Sl,521 short of paying expenses, including interest on investment. 



Thus it will be seen that these ten dairy farms depend mostly on 

 market milk for income. Cream is next in importance. Very little 

 butter is marketed. The one dairyman depending mostly on butter 

 for income failed to make expenses, counting interest on investment 

 among the expenses. The market price of milk distributed to cus- 

 tomers ranged from 7 to 10 cents per quart, and cream 60 cents to 

 SI per gallon, depending on market opportunities and quality of 



