CHAPTER XII 



DISPOSING OF MILK AND CEEAM 



City milk supply. Assuming that a dairyman 

 has a herd producing a good flow of milk, the 

 question naturally arises, what shall he do with 

 this milk in order to have it yield him the larg- 

 est net returns? The answer can only be given 

 by the dairyman himself after careful study of 

 the local situation. In certain localities it may 

 be advisable to handle milk in a way different 

 from that in other localities. Local conditions 

 necessarily govern the methods of the disposal 

 of milk. If a dairyman is situated in close prox- 

 imity to a city where the consumption of whole 

 milk is very large, it may be advisable for him 

 either to wholesale his product directly to a 

 milk dealer, or to have a private trade of his 

 own to which he can deliver the same. In the 

 latter case the necessary additional investment 

 in horses, wagons, and other equipment, must be 

 considered. In selling whole milk it must be 

 remembered that nothing is left on the farm in 

 the shape of skim -milk. While the returns from 

 selling milk in this way may appear large, 



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