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ness to collect freights of this kind, and take them in charge 
to New York, making the sales and returning the proceeds to 
the manufacturer. The “ captains” go with their freight twice 
a week, are men of standing and responsibility, who are 
well acquainted with the trade, and know how and when to ob¬ 
tain the best prices. 
They receive a commission for their labors, and find it to 
their interest to make good sales, otherwise they lose the confi¬ 
dence of those entrusting freight to their charge, and are liable^ 
therefore, to be displaced. The captains often receive propo¬ 
sals for large lots of butter, which proposals are submitted to the 
factories, when they are accepted or rejected as seems best to 
the parties interested. They supply private families and hotels, 
and by having a line of customers who are willing to pay a 
high price for‘an extreme fancy article, very large returns are 
not unfrequently made to the factories. 
By this system, the producer being brought near to the con¬ 
sumer, he must realise full prices for his goods, instead of feed¬ 
ing a class of middle men, each one of whom will take his profit 
out of the product. 
With factories quite remote from the city, the product is 
either Unsigned to the wholesale dealer, to be sold on com¬ 
mission, or the brand, having a reputation, is sold directly to 
city dealers, on contracts for weekly or semi-monthly deliveries. 
ADVANTAGES OF BUTTER FACTORIES. 
The advantages of butter making on the associated dairy 
system over that in private families are very great. In the 
first place, by the association system a uniform product of su¬ 
perior character is secured. Every appliance that science or 
skill, or close attention is able to obtain, is brought to bear 
upon the manufacture, and prime quality necessarily follows 
as a result. 
If you could assume that in a neighborhood of ICO families 
each family had the skill and convenience of the factory, and 
that each would give the subject the same close attention, then, 
doubtless, there would be no difference as to the quality of 
product; but such a state of things rarely exists. 
