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December 19. 
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SHALL I SELL MILK, BUTTER OR CREAM? 
N ECONOMIC QUESTION.—A far¬ 
mer writes to a certain farm paper 
as follows: “I have 2S high-grade Hol¬ 
stein cows. For the month of August 
they gave me 12,009 pounds milk, which 
I sold at $1.SS per hundred pounds. If 
I could get nearly as much by making 
butter or selling cream I would much rath¬ 
er do that, so that I may have the skim- 
milk for pigs. The milk averages 3.8 per 
cent, butterfat.” This farmer is begin¬ 
ning to see daylight. The more of such 
inquiries received and properly answered 
by farm papers and agricultural colleges 
the better off the dairy industry will be. 
Co-operative Creameries. —It would 
seem that one factor which will help ma¬ 
terially to raise the price of wholesale 
milk in Connecticut is the establishment 
of co-operative creameries and skimming 
stations. This would so decrease the sup¬ 
ply of milk that the contractors and pre¬ 
sumably the consumers would have to pay 
more for it if a surplus was maintained 
and the demand supplied. The fact that 
there does not begin to be high-class but¬ 
ter enough made in the State to supply 
5,380.8 pounds butter. If he makes this 
butter on the farm, he will have, in addi¬ 
tion to 100,971.4 pounds of skim-milk, 
7.047.S pounds of buttermilk for feeding 
various classes of live stock. For pig¬ 
feeding alone it. is generally conceded that 
100 pounds of skim-milk or buttermilk is 
equal in value to a half-bushel of corn. 
At our present prices of corn 100 pounds 
of skim-milk or buttermilk must be worth 
at least 50 cents per hundred. At this 
price the skim-milk would be worth 
$534.80, and buttermilk $38.24, making 
a total of $573.09. He should receive 3S 
cents a pound for his butter. Allowing 
three cents per pound for making his re¬ 
ceipts from butter would be $1,8S3.2S. 
This, added to the value of his buttermilk 
and skim-milk, would give him an in¬ 
come of $2,450.37. 
Value op Skim-Milk. —Every 1,000 
pounds of skim-milk contains five pounds 
nitrogen, 21 pounds phosphoric acid, and 
two pounds potash, and every 1.000 pounds 
of buttermilk contains 6.4, 1.7 and 1.6 
pounds, respectively of the fertilizing con¬ 
stituents mentioned. In the skim-milk 
left on the farm there would be 534.8 
pounds nitrogen, 224.6 pounds phosphoric 
acid, and 213.9 pounds potash, all worth, 
with nitrogen at 20 cents per pound, and 
phosphoric acid and potash at five cents 
per pound, $12S.89. Since 70 per cent. 
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the demand, together with the fact that a 
large amount of the cream used in our 
rapidly-growing ice cream business comes 
from outside the State, warrants the es¬ 
tablishment of more good creameries and 
skimming stations. While it is probably 
true that the cow population of the State 
is not large enough, or, at least, so dis¬ 
tributed that the desirable amount of 
creamery business could be done if a large 
per cent, of the wholesale milk sold in the 
State could be turned into the creamery 
weigh can and cream vat, conditions 
would be greatly improved. 
Milk, Butter or Cream. —Let us sup¬ 
pose the farmer referred to above is lo¬ 
cated in Connecticut at such a distance 
from a city as to make the retailing of 
his milk impossible, but within a reason¬ 
able distance of a good creamery. Let us 
also suppose that regardless of the num¬ 
ber of cows kept, he has 10,000 pounds of 
3.8 per cent, milk monthly. The farmer 
really has his choice of selling wholesale 
milk, making butter on the farm, taking 
his cream to the creamery where it may 
be made into butter or ice cream, or sold 
by the creamery to the ice cream manu¬ 
facturer. The 10.000 pounds of milk pro¬ 
duced monthly equals 4.651 quarts. This 
would be a production of 120.000 pounds 
or 55,812 quarts in one year. The aver¬ 
age prices paid by the two leading con¬ 
tractors buying milk in the State from 
April, 1914, to April, 1915, are 3.94 cents 
and 3.76 cents per quart, or an average 
for the two of 3.85 cents. In selling his 
milk the farmer receives in one year 
$2,148.76. 
Skim-Milk or Buttermilk. —If he 
skimmed a 35 per cent, cream from his 
milk he would get 13,028.6 pounds of 
cream, containing 4,560 pounds fat, which 
should make, with 18 per cent, overrun, 
of the fertilizing value of the skim-milk 
is recovered in the manure there would be 
an added income to the farm of $90.22 
from the skim-milk. Similarly the but¬ 
termilk containing 4S.9 pounds nitrogen, 
13 pounds phosphoric acid and 12.2 
pounds potash, would net the farmer 
$7.72. Instead of crediting the farmer 
with this let it go to defray the expense 
of separator, buttermaking equipment, 
and possible losses in skimming and 
churning. Even then the farmer is 
$307.61 better off making butter than 
selling milk. 
Selling Cream. —Since the farmer is 
located near a creamery he would prob¬ 
ably prefer to take his cream to the cream¬ 
ery rather than make it into butter on the 
farm. If he does this and receives an av¬ 
erage price of 36 cents per pound for 
butter fat, his 4.560 pounds of fat will 
give him $1,641.60. Thirty-six cents was 
below the average price paid by some 
Connecticut creameries last year. He 
has the skim-milk, but no buttermilk at 
home on the farm. The skim-milk is 
found to be worth for feeding $534.85. 
This added to $1,641.60 equals $2,176.45, 
or a balance of $27.39 more than the re¬ 
ceipts by selling milk. (Right here it may 
be said that if he only skimmed a 25 per 
cent, cream, instead of the 35 per cent, 
cream, he would have 5,212 pounds less 
skim-milk left on the farm, which would 
mean a loss of $26.06. not to mention the 
extra cost of handling and delivering 
5,212 pounds more cream.) The value of 
the fertilizing constituents in the skim- 
milk will again be left out of considera¬ 
tion. 
“Points” On Cream.—I f the farmer 
takes his cream to the creamery or pos¬ 
sibly he may haul his milk to a skim¬ 
ming station near by, and the cream is 
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