| Show The Whys Why and Wherefores Regarding Butter er Prices The Tho total production n J p C Butter Inthe in inthe Inthe the United States for th car 1 1911 f Is isS pounds S short or of what It was In 1910 1010 America Is an exp exporter tc and not nn art importer of or butter other countries 10 not ship butter to the United States States they they never have j a P. surplus Tariff Is not concerned S Owin Owing to the drought drought In In Europe this year car tho the butter supply there Is Isas Isas Isa's as nc short as in this count country All Europe drew heavily JI on O the tho American Amen Ameri can butter market early last spring causing an extraordinary shortage iu lit our home homo supply later The butter shortage is practically a n World wide n o ery country IS n affected Scarcity of an any commodity In an any locality always brings about an Increase in increase increase In- In crease in price the price varying according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to the supply at the various large lare distributing points The J Jensen ensen Creamery Creamer Co prices are arc determined b by the buying and antI selling prices that prevail pre in the territory It serves A At t present we compete in all au markets within a radius of oC 50 square quare miles and in buying our om cream and selling our butter we are governed by the time pieces that maintain generally throughout this territory just as all other creameries arc are Whenever hene theres there's a scarcity oC of cream the dairies and tho tue haulers raise their theil prices and if iC a creamery does docs not want to go o out of or business it has to pa pay the prevailing pre price orlet or orlet orlet let the tho supply go to a competitor The Tho pre present ent prices for tor cream in these western states have ha compelled tho the following following- WHOLESALE prices for the tho highest qua quality lit creamer creamery butter butter butter but but- ter at the following big distributing points S SS S Wholesale Retail Denver Sc n Butte i 30 10 jr Spokane T 40 U V fric Portland 39 Jg San Francisco zac Lo Los Angeles GC CC 42 je e Commencing Commencing- tomorrow morning the wholesale price for fur BLANChARD BLANCh BL ARD th the highest quality creamery butter Mill be he per print and the RETAIL prIce will be bo wholesale retail Elgin Eight will b bo be wholesale Gc retail The two last Just named butters rs arc are good pure sweet and wholesome but do tie o not S equal the high hl quality of Blanchard Even higher prices than the above prevail ail In tho tIme Atlantic States Slates 4 c Is the retail price of or butter in German Germany Denmark and antI other parts of 0 S at present S SAS AS 8 TO WEIGHTS EIGHTS Dairy and creamery authorities generally generaH know Imo that the process of or butter Into prints does lees not permit of or absolute accuracy In weight The State Dairy and Food Commission Commission Commis Commis- sion allows a three per pet cent shrinkage shrinkage shrink shrink- age ae the equivalent of one half ounce This shrinkage I is th the evaporation evaporation evaporation tion of or water after aCter the thc butt butter butler r I Is churned and antI does does' not concern tlc tile thereal real solid food tood value that remains remain In our prints print win will average l 1 16 ounces Shrinkage tales takes place as asIn asIn asin In all other othor butters But wo we Invite all users of or our butters to weigh h our prints and we are arc certain the prints will average crag at at t 15 ounces which is strictly within the full till meaning meanIng meaning mean mean- ing of or law and the demand for tor a square squar deal Accidents will happen rr may ITay ay be careless s sometimes and underweight under ul weight prints will slip into shipments try try as we ve do to avoid them To protect pro S teet ourselves from an any possible misrepresentation misrepresentation mis mis- representation we v mark all cartons 15 OUNCES JENSEN SEN CREA CREAMERY ERY CO COMPANY B By W. W F. F Jensen President President- |
