Show CREAM GRADING HAS BECO BECOME M E NECESSARY s better prices stimulate farmer in obtaining improved breed of dairy cattle by L G HINKLE lUsso bourl url college ot of agriculture the american farmer who sells cream should insist that the creamery grade his cream this will tend to ell cu i out the poor quality of cream and make possible a better grade of butter give the creamery a good grade of cream and they can make a good 1 imade rade of butter good butter sells for a high price therefore top prices can tie be paid for the cream better cream prices stimulate the farmer in obtaining better dairy cattle and increase the desire alei ire for a more careful kaudy of economical milk production the close grading rf ct r f cream has become absolutely necessary within the he last few years creamery butter of the united states has been meeting with greater competition from foreign butter butter from siberia australia denmark and south america has crime come to our shores by the shipload and sold in our large markets it longside american made butter it lins lias poured into the united states on tilh tieh tile the eastern tern and Ni western estern coasts imported butter does not reach our markets in as fresh condition as our own butter consequently the majority of it sells as herond grade in many cases it leaves the point of production us as a fust first class article but Is so long in tran transit zit that it deteriorates and arrives as aa second grade butter unfortunately tuna tely the greater part of american made butter is also second grade this Is not became ie it cannot reach the marlet market it at once but because it is made from it a poor quality of cream the american farmer Is not producing as good quality of cream as his foreign brother first grade butter Is still in big demand in this country and the producers of good butter are realizing a nice mee margin in price over the producers of second grade butter because of foreign competition with our second grade butt butter erthe the difference in price between first grade and second grade la Is wide foreign competition has not materially increased the supply of birst grades because of our poor markets for grade butter the farmers in avery community should compel their creamery to grade the cream and li i should do all in their power to see every farmer produces only first grade cream then and only then will that creamery be able to pay top prices for cream |