| Show PRICE E OF BUTTER BUM DROPS FIVE CENTS Idaho Importation Less Costly Than at Opening of the Week SHORT WEIGHTS FOUND State p tion fion Practiced by Some of the Wholes Wholesalers powers that be in the local butter butter butter but but- T TIE ter market yesterday decreed that consumers should be given a Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas mae present pre of ot 5 cents on the of ot their butter After Arter trying for tor a few da days s 's to soar at tho the cent 15 mark out- out of ot butter yesterday dropped to tho the reliable 40 cents a carton rate and the probability Is t that al this this' price will wll obtain obtain to o tho the rest of or the year When hen 5 cents was 13 added to tho the package butter price a week ago abo It was declared by other local deniers dealers that thc they would refuse refus' to meet this price with their brands and It was predicted that the ther rebellion in the local market against tho leadership of the thc com company pan which handles only I Idaho butter would break brenk what has been known a as the tho butter trust and result resul In the establishment nt of or the cent 40 price as the thc maximum indefinitely IndefInite This Tills prediction has been Justified Aside from the legitimate profits and the tle profits accruing from market fluctuations flue flue- Utah creameries using the sliding scale of or labeled weights make an additional profit of SAO per hundredweight hundredweight hun hun- in short weights and o cr runs This Is the declaration of or Vii Wll- lard rard Han en state dalr dairy and food commissioner com corn missioner who has Just completed a B thorough investigation In of or the Utah butter butter butter but but- ter situation The farmer in selling his cream to the creamery creamer man said Mr rr Hunsen Hansen is paid according to the amount of or butter butter butter but but- ter fat tal contained in same s. at the tho rate o of sixteen ounces to the pound In churning this butter fat at into butter water and salt are added giving 1 the tho creamery man Iii 11 to pounds o ol of butter sixteen ounces to the pound for tor on Page e Tiro iro PRICE OF BUTTER DROPS FIVE GENTS CENTS Idaho Importation Less Costly Than at Opening of the Week ll From Page r. r One every pounds of butter fat tat purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased from Crom the farmer Carmer Ue Short Not ot content with the tho profit of oC this overrun o and price variations many of oC the creamer creamery men have resorted to weighting short tho the public the shortage shortage short short- age Ilse averaging averaging- from Crom one half to one ounce on every pound This allows them thorn to secure to 1 4 pounds of oC butter for e cr every pounds of butterfat butter butterfat fat tat purchased from the farmer This at 3 35 cents per pound wholesale gives siveR thorn them an added profit on shortage and overrun of or S 40 per par pounds These at the present time label their b butter packages fifteen ounces net nel to meet the requirements of oC the tho law The They however turn turnaround turnaround turnaround around and mislead tho the public by y stat stat- I In ing ng in their advertisements that the they mold their butter at the creameries so it will ivill average n sixteen ounces to the pound They contend that a n heavy shrinkage takes place and that the dairy and arid food rood department allows a shrinkage of oC one half ounce to the pound This department does not acknowledge that butter buttel will shrink one half ounce to the pound In the tire tew fe Jays days In which it is offered for Cor sale salo Tire The d department does doo allow a little shrinkage and variance In weight of butter as it Is hard to mold It in a uniform weight but bul it must bo be molded so that the average would scarcely carcel show two tso per cent of or shrinkage shrinkage- In a i weeks week's time Set Short I On several occasions this department department depart depart- I i ment merit has found while Im Inspecting a certain certain tam tain creamery which has made this contention that the scales at th the tho mold were set at nt fifteen and quarter one-quarter ounces and never have havo been leen found to tobe tobe tobe be set at more than fifteen and one- one half ounces While attending the national meeting meet meet- lag ing of tho tim Association of ot State and National National Na Na- National Dalr Dairy and Food commissioners loners In company compan with State Chemist Hel Herman Harms we wel weighed butter offered for tor sale at the stores to the groce grocery consuming consuming consuming con con- suming public in the states of ot Minnesota Minnesota Minne Minne- sota Wisconsin Illinois Michigan Pennsylvania and Now W York an and our findings were that In all 11 cases It would average eras full sixteen ounces to thep the p pound und Recent tests testa of oC Salt Lake Lale butter butter but but- ter made by Mr 1 Harms show that butter but but- butter ter in cart cartons ns will not shrink one half ounce in three weeks week's time This shows that butter under ordinary Conditions cannot shrink one lf ounce in ITt three or orl four days days' as time as is 15 claimed b by so sortie some e of ot the wholesale n |
