150 CLEAN MILK 



The most striking fact which impresses one in this whole matter 

 of profit in milk production is the folly of keeping poor cows. A. 

 poor cow makes a poor owner. 



The production and transportation of clean milk is attended 

 ■with much greater expense than that of ordinary or " market "" 

 milk. 



The following figures, showing the cost of milk production 

 and distribution, must, of course, be considered only approximate. 

 Local conditions alter circumstances tremendously. Thus in this 

 region (Seattle, Wash.), the climate is so mild that ice has to be 

 used on the milk during transportation on the railroad and delivery 

 in the city wagon the year round. Then again, the city is very 

 hilly and the streets, many of them, very bad, and the milk route 

 is not concentrated in a thickly settled district. 



We may place the average cost of the production throughout 

 the country of ordinary market milk at 2 to 2 J / 2 cents per quart as 

 the result of the figures obtained from the experiment stations in 

 the past. Owing to the exceptional high cost of cow feed and 

 labor in recent years, Dr. E. B. Voorhees, of the N. J. Exper. Sta., 

 has lately (1907) computed that it costs the farmer from 4.7 to 

 6.55 cents per quart to raise milk. The range in the price of the 

 cost quoted depends upon the cost of the investment and labor, 

 the cleanliness of the milk produced, and also whether the farmer- 

 charges more than the cost of ordinary farm labor for his time. 

 Perhaps the average figure hitherto paid the farmer for ordinary 

 market milk hereabouts is 3>4 cents a quart. This does not differ 

 materially from the price paid in many parts of the country. At 

 present (Feb., 1908) the farmer is receiving about 4^ cents net 

 for ordinary market-milk in this locality (Seattle, Wash.) which 

 retails at 10 cents a quart for bottled milk. 



The cost of producing clean milk in this region, over and' 

 above that of ordinary milk, may be set down at 2 cents a quart. 

 This includes the extra care necessitated in the barn and dairy,. 



