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JuuyY, 1908 - 
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HITCHINGS & COMPANY 
New York 
Summer Dairy Market 
ON A recent trip to the station with 
our weekly consignment of butter 
for the city market I chanced to meet the 
local grocer’s boy bringing four large tubs 
from their nearby place of business on‘a 
wheelbarrow. Misfortune overtook him 
while crossing the tracks and the tubs of 
butter slid to the ground. The cover came 
off one, followed by a couple of handfuls of 
salt and the muslin circle that had been 
used to cover the butter and then the whole 
mass slid partially out into the cinders. 
It was hastily slid back, the cover pounded 
on with the boy’s boot heel and the tubs 
hurried aboard the train. What the ultimate 
fate of that butter would be in the city 
market was hard to conjecture, but its 
whole history was a sad tale. 
The overburdened farmer’s wife not only 
has to make the butter but in many instances 
has to submit to having the cream separator 
and churn as permanent fixtures in her 
kitchen. The farmer at the end of a Lusy 
week has to have a little ready cash or some 
groceries. The butter is, therefore, hurried 
to the grocer and sold for about five cents 
a pound below the wholesale quotation. 
We have not solved the problem quite 
to our satisfaction, but so far the local 
grocery has only received butter from us 
once. We. were fortunate in finding an_ 
elderly gentleman of wide acquaintance in 
the nearby city who was anxious to find 
some light employment in addition to his 
regular work. At any rate he receives our 
butter once a week, packed in 5-pound 
fibre pails and shipped fifty pounds in a 
crate. 
He delivers to private customers and 
secures a price midway between the highest 
New York wholesale quotation and the 
retail price. He takes one cent a pound 
for his commission and the express charges 
average another half cent a pound. We 
would prefer to market in one pound prints, 
securing an advance of about two cents 
a pound for the extra expense of packing 
and at the same time securing a little more 
appreciative class of customers. We feel 
very certain that in nearly every community 
a private trade may be worked up for really 
good butter and that it will prove much 
more satisfactory than “trading” it with the 
local grocer. ; 
We have no trouble withour customers 
because we preclude it by absolutely guaran- 
teeing our product. Each package is given the 
date of the churning from which it is packed 
and a sample from each churning is used 
on our own table, criticisms, suggestions, 
and anything exceptional being noted on 
the churn record. In case of a dissatisfied 
customer the full price is refunded for what 
remains of his package. Most of our com- 
plaints have arisen over salting and color; 
two things in which it is impossible to please 
all tastes. The high coloring of butter 
from the Channel Island cattle on the full 
pasture of midsummer leads some to declare 
that the product has been artificially colored 
when such is not the case. 
Pennsylvania. iB. E. Bs: 
