9 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. 
if Size | Num- iabor Gross Receipts | Receipts Gross 
Farm No. of berof | in eanne receipts from from receipts 
farm. | COws. * |from cream. butter. | per cow. 
SR SSS Patan Oe mics | 400 79 | $1,466 | $5,315 | $2,101 |.-.....- $98. 88 
DTS TR RO EE RET Se 2 A 290 30 13, 604 545000 ets. Bes ees 150. 00 
Baa ae bes pans 6 ers ae 247 LO sl o04| sxe ¥O06 TOO ile eee tua 199.78 
A Nees aloes Gee oe ae i, 150 50 | 6,408; 6,768) 1,128 $25 | 158.00 
ee ees rae nen at Shes 51 15 | 3,201 | 2,920 225 260 | 227.00 
GBS SUA ed hee BN se a 86 Ou ely ebZi LG) sl ppl QO Gua lee eta’ 230. 00 
Tr nie MS RON Uses Mite ia) B21 30 1 O09 28966 ASO ue nee 114. 86 
a cits Um A ate TON Ae 04 LOM. Pole 208 es 52. 00 
Quek Pie AS ae Oe Ae ey gali2 2S Teal Nees uty: 624) 4) Sete 52. 00 
DO Gea y ois i NE Tyee A 20S 12 a Fae ark 104 780 73. 60 
Average of all........- 163 Za Leica mec OO 689 106 | 126.16 
1 This farm fell $139 short of paying expenses, including interest on investment. 
2 This farm feli $1,521 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 
$1 per gallon, depending on market opportunities and quality of 
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