FARMERS EARNINGS IN SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA 
27 
1. Each producer shall be credited with the quantity of milk delivered by him 
during October, November, and December, 1922. The average production of 
these three months shall be known as the basic quantity*. 
2. During the following nine months he will receive the basic price 13 for the 
following percentages of this quantity of milk : 
Per cent Per cent Per cent 
100 April 100 July... 110 
1C0 May... 100 August 110 
100 June 100 
January. 
February 
March.,. 
September 115 
3. For additional quantities of milk above the basic quantity each farmer will 
receive a price based on the average price of New York 92 score, solid packed butter 
for that month as published by the Federal Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 
a. Surplus No. 1 price. — For a quantity of milk less than or equal to the basic 
quantity, the average price of 92-score butter for each month plus 20 per cent 
will be paid. 
b. Surplus No. 2 price. — For all additional milk above a quantity equal to the 
basic quantity the average price of 92-score butter for each of the six months, 
January, February, March, April, May, and June, without the 20 per cent 
premium, will be paid. 
c. During July, August, and September all shippers shall be paid a price for 
surplus based on 92-score butter plus the premium of 20 per cent. 
Provisions are also made for paying new dairymen who begin 
shipping at other than the fall basic period, counting half the ship- 
ments of the first 30 days as the " basic" quantity. 
Table 24. — Farms producing grade B milk classified by average price received 
for milk and proportion of milk produced during the winter 1 
Number of farms receiving specified average prices per 100 pounds 
of milk 
Average 
price 
per 100 
pounds 
Proportion of milk 
produced during 
winter, in per cent. 
150 
to 
170 
cents 
170 
to 
190 
cents 
190 
to 
210 
cents 
210 
to 
230 
cents 
230 
to 
250 
cents 
250 
to 
270 
cents 
270 
to 
290 
cents 
290 
to 
310 
cents 
All 
prices 
20 to 25— 
1 
6 
3 
2 
3 
2 
5 
2 
7 
10 
14 
15 
9 
4 
3 
1 
6 
10 
13 
23 
51 
79 
50 
46 
25 
9 
3 
1 
Dollars 
2. 17 
25 to 30. .. 
1 
1 
7 
19 
40 
22 
32 
12 
5 
1 
1 
3 
10 
18 
12 
9 
8 
1 
1 
1 
2. 16 
30 to 35 
2. 23 
35 to 40 
1 
1 
1 
. 
2.28 
40 to 45.. 
1 
3 
1 
2 
2 
1 
.. 
2. 36 
45 to SO- 
2.41 
SO to 55 
2.48 
55 to 60 

2.43 
60 to 65.. 
2.47 
65 to 70. .. 
2.49 
70 to 75— . 
2.60 
75 to 80 
( 2 ) 
80 to 85 
85 to 90 
2 
2 
( 2 ) 
Total 
1 
3 
17 
70 
143 
64 
13 
7 
318 
2.40 
1 Prices adjusted to a common basis of 3.7 per cent butterfat. 
2 Groups too small to compute average. 
Chester County is more favorably situated for the production of 
winter milk than are most of the counties that supply the Phila- 
delphia market, and for that reason further specialization in winter 
milk production in this area would seem profitable. 
Table 24 shows to what extent the price received by men producing 
grade B milk varies with the proportion produced during the winter 
months. (The farms selling A or AA milk are omitted from this 
table.) The men who produced 60 per cent or more of their annual 
production during the winter months received on the average 20 to 
40 cents more per 100 pounds for their milk than did the men who 
produced 40 per cent or less of the year's production during the 
winter season. 
13 The basic price is determined by joint conference of producers and distributors, and in case they can 
not agree, by the milk arbitrator of Pennsylvania. From time to time as conditions change they meet 
and revise the basic price. 
