Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-21 | Page 10 | Milk Retailer Tells of Profit

Ilk retailer MSPOFIT Charles S. Smith Says His Costs Arc Above Those Given By Newspaper Editor Standard-Examiner: W I notice vour diagnosis of the retail milk situation in Ogden. and at your I request will submit some data that has doI been covered by your article. It is Very evident to the dairymen, that your Investigation) while honest, has i.eej, very superficial, and for that reason the larger expenses of preparing pre-paring milk for the market have been omitted. Wo are in the business of buying, testing, clarifying, pasteurizing and delivering milk at retail in Ogden City, our plant for carrying on this bnslnssfl has an Involco value of 126,000. Under the head of buying, we pay a minimum price of 25 cents a gallon for our milk delivered at our plant. Instead of 23 cents as stated in your article. For quite a quantity of high ' grade Jersey milk, wo pay a much i higher price. We buy this to raise the butter fat percentage in our out 1 put. "Our tester tests every batch of I milk that comes into the dairy. This ' Is done that we may refuse to buy I any rnilk that docs not come up to tho lawful test. Our milk pas-ses flrt through a clarlfler that takes out every particle of dirt that may have fallen Into the milk, then through the pasteurizer, at 142 degrees and Is held at that temperature for 30 minutes, then through the cooler, that brings tho temperature down to 4S degrees, from that through the bottler, and Into the refrigerator until' It Is ready for I delivery. si i ! MI S l I Cost of milk at factory, per qt 6 25 eta. Cost of testing; pasteurizing, bottling ami Icing (aver- I ago for year 1.50 cts. Cost of delivery 2.30 eta. Bottle loss, breakage and bottle caps 03 cts. Total cost, per quart. . . . 10.35 cts. This would apparently ISSVC a prof- it of 2.15 cents per quart, but as a matter of ( fact, we have three other Items that cover at least 1 cent a quart' They are first interest on the investment; second, upkeep of the plant, and third depreciation. This leaves us a profit of 1.15 cents per qua rt- We submit that we cannot do business busi-ness on lcS9. Now In conclusion we desire to say, that if you will have your investigator call on us at our plant, wo will bo pleased to verify every statement made above, or. If you prefer you may select a committee commit-tee of business men, and we will verify veri-fy this statement to them. While the data herein submitted is from our own plant, we feel sure that 1 the same general conditions exist in all the better dairy plants in the state. KEEEXMIEK DAIRY. Chas. S. Smith. 00 Plant apple trees thirty to fifty feet apart.