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Show PAY ACCORDING TO QUAUT1 Great Improvement Seen In Cream Since New Rule Want "Ht Effect In Swift County, Minn. One of the advantages which the more up-to-date co-operative creameries cream-eries have over the large centralised plants Is that they aecur cream of better quality because they are nearer the source of supply. In recent years a few of the co-operative creameries, especially In Minnesota, have begun to grade the cream and pay for It according ac-cording to quality. The KIrkhoven creumery of Swift county, Minnesota, Is one of these. For some time H haa been paying a premium of two cents a pound for butter fat In No. 1 cream. V. II. Chrlstensen, the buttermak-er buttermak-er In charge, recently made the statement state-ment that he baa seen a great Improvement Im-provement In the cream since the new rule went Into effect. Msny fanners. Instead of delivering their cream once or twice a week last summer, made two or three deliveries a week In order or-der to get the additional two cents a pound for their butter fat A creamery can well afford to pay a premium for good cream, because the quality of butter produced from No. 1 grade will bring a better price on the market than the best butter that can possibly be made from an Inferior grade, llesl.les, there Is always al-ways a greater demand for first-class butter than for medium gradea of Inferior In-ferior quality. In the summer time the market is overstocked with poo' butter, but there never yet baa been more good butter than the market can absorb. When a creamery pays the sam price for an Inferior grade of cream as It does for the best quality there Is no Incentive to the careful man to deliver de-liver aa good a product as la possible. He naturally resents the Idea that his slovenly neighbor who sends partially spoiled cream ahould obtain the same price as be gets for a product that la produced at greater cost The sooner the buying of cream according ac-cording to grade becomes general the better It will be for all dairymen. It la an absolute Injury to the dairy Industry In-dustry to ship poor butter to the mar ket. because It makes It Just that much easier for the manufacturers of oleomargarine to dispose of their product. A. great many people would rather buy good oleomargarine than poor butter, and the more they are encouraged en-couraged along that line the greater will become the consumption of olea |