29 BULLETIN 682, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
creameries making “ States Brand Butter,” provided such butter is 
sold to the consumers under the exclusive brands of the creameries. 
Retailers and consumers might also, with advantage to themselves, 
improve their buying methods. Small grocers and proprietors of 
delicatessen shops often pay higher prices for butter of compara- 
tively inferior quality than larger dealers pay for butter of choice 
quality. Cooperative buying associations among the retailers of 
some cities in which an expert judge of butter quality does the buy- 
ing have overcome some of the difficulties encountered by retailers 
who buy as individuals in competition with the larger retailing 
organizations. 
