PRICES OF MILK.
According to an Edinburgh University; lec- ' turer (Mr. Carruthers), tho prices • received ' for'milk by farmers in various countries are as follow:— Denmark.—2Blb. mill; yields, lib; butter, . .worth Is. OJd. per lb., so that for one gallon of milk. (101b.) he receives- 4sd., apart from skim milk. '. : . England.—2slb. milk makes lib. butter, worth ls_ld. wliolesalo, so that the farmer receives s}d.: per-gallon of 101b'. Scotland.—Milk scut to tho t-owus returns ' the farmer GUI. per gallon, all the year j round, i • ' ■ 'I'o this list ono may-add the New Zealand ' figure of, say,'2slb. of milk to. lib. of butter, worth up to lljd-, or a gross return of . fid. per gallon. Tho supplier of milk for r Wellington milk ' trade is now getting Bd. I per gallon. '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 10
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128PRICES OF MILK. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 10
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