A6 BULLETIN 341, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
selling market milk only in the fact that during the summer time, 
when there is a superabundance of market milk, these farms sell to 
local creameries. 
TABLE XXI.—Rcelative importance of different types of dairying, Chester County 
owners. 
Number of 
farms sell- | Total num- 
Types. ing only | beroffarms 
3 one dairy | selling.a 
product. 
IButCermmakin e Oe: 2 50 See as ise foo ies Aa AE ae eh Bt ae oe ae 54 62 
Creamery-andimarke tamales pas oes are ee ee es ee oa ys ere 204 209 
Agree ty my eae ene Se A eS se geet oes ap a 74 77 
@ondensary miles s Fase ee Ea ie, ee cee oe he Oe le eee eee eee 6 6 
INIUITS@ Tey os -ee se eS Se 5 cece ate ey E et  Be en eee eee eRe ei 1 1 
Bab bermilke so oes oe re ee ae tape Se ae ee ee te eee ee ae | a 1 
ROG sore aim als ee ete rh eed Shae len ea EO Sk te ap re 339 356 
malig 22 putter qaidemire: Tile 1 pubiegs Geeameeyars ie fact ee ee nme 
skim milk and buttermilk. 
> Butter making is confined principally to farms having too small a quantity of milk to 
justify delivery at a creamery or shipping station. (See Table XXII.) 
Practically all of those farms here listed as “ creamery and market 
milk” farms are really market-milk farms doing business for a 
portion of the summer season with the creameries. In all there are 
209 farms following this practice, while 77 produce market milk, 
but do not patronize the creameries. There are 62 farms that make 
some butter, and 54 of these sell no other dairy product. Six farms 
sell all their milk to a condensary, one makes a specialty of nursery 
milk for children, and one sells some buttermilk. There is some 
duplication of farms in the last column of Table X XI. Several of 
these farms sell more than one kind of dairy products. This dupli- 
cation is eliminated in the preceding column, which shows the num- 
ber of farms selling only the one kind of product mentioned. 
As previously stated, butter making was formerly an important 
feature of the dairy business is this locality, and continued as such 
until the development of the market-milk business, which began 
about 45 years ago. At the present time butter making on the farm 
occupies a very subordinate position. It is confined almost wholly 
to those farms having only a few cows, and hence not enough milk 
to justify daily delivery at a shipping point. There are also a few 
farms having a special trade in fancy butter. Table XXII shows 
that of those farms having 6 cows or less, 38 per cent sell some | 
butter. Of those having more than 6 and not more than 18 cows, 
only about 6 or 7 per cent sell any butter. Those with more than 
18 cows sell no butter. 
