The Price Received for Milk.

Otago Witness, Issue 1891, 17 February 1888, Page 7

The Price Received for Milk.

EDITOR WIT/NESS. Sib,— J enclose you a capping from, the Utica (N.Y.) Press. It is a condensed report of a factory situated two miles from my home, and it shows the ups and downs of dairy farming in the States. The net price for 1001b of milk, 97c, being just under 5d for 101b, which makes it a very good season for the factory. The amount realised iv 188(j was just under for lQlb.' Npw I don't believe at' the end of 1886 that a single farmer sold bjs cowb, or even thought of doing so, or said he would not send his milk to, th,e factory unless a pertain price was guaranteed. Neither were there a.ny meetings held, nor was there any wrangling over what should he done during the camipg season. Every man keeps steadily on, and if a had season is experienced he Jivpo in hopes of a better one next year. At this factory, which is owned by a private individual, each farmer draws his own milk to the factory, where it is weighed and made into cheese. When cured it is sold, and the money is then, and not till then, paid to each man according to the quantity of milk he delivered, and which was included in that sale; and so on through the season, the owner of the factory deducting a certain amount for each 1001b of cheess sold for running expenses and his profit for keeping the factory and making the cheese.— l am, 4tc., S. M- IfaWNS, Meager Gore Dairy Factory. Qore, February 8. , The following i 3 the paragraph referred to by by Mr Robbins : — Short Lots Cheese Factory. Schuyler, December 26 — Tho following ia a statement of t.he Short Lots Factory tor the season of 1887 :— Number pounds of milk, 2,244,658 ; number pounds of cheese, 223,835 ; average gross price per pound, 10 87c ; number of pounds Milk for one pound cheese, 1002 ; neb value of 1001b of milk. 0 97c. D. M. Richabdsox, Maker. J, M, Dodge, Assistant. ■