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Wisconsin" State Agricultural Society. 
SALES AT EASTERN - FACTORIES AND DAIRIES. 
During the last month of December a dairyman at Smyrna, 
New York, stated in the columns of the New York Tribune some 
valuable facts, which, condensed into a nut-shell, represent that 
the milk-producers in that region sell their milk to the butter-fac¬ 
tories on the basis of twenty-five pounds of milk allowed for one 
pound of butter; five cents per pound is then deducted for mak¬ 
ing, freight, commission, and for selling. That would be four 
pounds of butter for every hundred pounds of milk. If butter 
sells at 30 cents the net is 25 cents = $1 per hundred pounds milk. 
At 35 cents it gives them $1.20 per hundred pounds of milk, and 
so on. If sold to the cheese-factories, they allow ten pounds of 
milk to one pound of cheese. Two cents is allowed for making, 
furnishing, and selling. If cheese sells at 14 cents, the net is 12 
cents — $1.20 per hundred pounds milk. The same paper gave the 
butter quotations for the season from May 5 to December 1, 1875, 
as follows—which are from 3 to 5 cents below “ State selections.” 
The prices for u State dairies,” from u common” to “ fine,” were— 
May, 14 cents to 22 cents; June, 22 cents to 28 cents; July, 22 cents 
to 28 cents; August, 27 cents to 30 cents; September, 29 cents to 
30 cents; October and November, 30 cents to 31 cents. This will 
serve as a general sketch of the dairy-market; as cheese will keep 
along about one-half of the butter price. 
WESTERN DAIRY-PRODUCTS IN DISREPUTE. 
But, in comparing eastern and western dairy earnings, it is hu¬ 
miliating to be compelled to acknowledge that eastern dairy-pro¬ 
ducts are quoted in the market reports at about fifty per cent, 
above western products, because of the prejudice existing against 
western slovenliness and negligence. So strongly has this disgrace 
been fastened upon the west, that a package of the best “ Orange 
county ” butter, if branded as the product of any western dairy, 
could not be sold in any city, east or west, for more than one-lialf 
or two-thirds of the price paid for the same butter correctly branded; 
and none of the genuine 4t codfish ” in the eastern cities could be 
induced, under any conceivable circumstances, to lubricate their 
u inwardness ” with what they are accustomed to regard as u west¬ 
ern grease.” It should be the first endeavor of western dairymen 
