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Show DAIRY FACTS- GRADED CREAM WILL BRING MQRE MONEY t-L J. By using a little more care In the handling of cream and Insisting on the maintenance of cream, grades, producers produc-ers of butterfat In Sou Pakp eo.ulfl Increase their receipts by 5 cents per pound, it has been estimated by the department of farm economics at South Dakota State college. If the farmers of the state, who, marketed 81,761.070 pounds of butter fat In the form of cream In 1922, had, received a premium of ft cents per pound for better quality, It would have amounted to n little more than one and one-half million dollars,. Tlls, even after deducting whatever small additional expenses might have been Incurred through added labor and equipment, leaves a huge sum that butterfat producers of the state ay overlooking. This could he saved, says this department, tf those who are now putting out a quality product would Insist on what Is Justly due them In- the form of standardized, grades of hutterfat, There Is not a town In South Dakota Da-kota that has not several cream buyers who compete with others for the farmer's farm-er's trade; yet all of them pay a flat fate for all grades of cream. This Is not entirely the fault of the buyers. One furm'er alone, bringing In high-grade high-grade cream, does not have sufficient volume to establish a market for his product, for cream buyers cannot afford af-ford to pay sweet cream prices and then find It necessary to hold the sweet cream until It sours, with the Idea of getting enough to fill out their Shipment. If cream grades are to be maintained, then there must be enough high-class producers to Insist upon It. The producers of low quality cream certainly will not ask that cream be graded, for, under the present system, they receive a higher price for their product than they would If their own product was graded down to Its proper prop-er classification. |