A PREMIUM FOR POOR MILK.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2422, 19 January 1888, Page 3

A PREMIUM FOR POOR MILK.

TO TUB KMTOH. Sill,-At a cattle s:ilo t heard a milks»p|)lii>r onquirinjr f"i' milkinpr Rows with the character f.r quantity rather than quality. Rein;* cnrimi-i tn unravel what in thesis days of creameries seemed a remarkable, course tn pursue, I was supplied with the following business-like mason :—ln a word the man wanted cows shin;,' a How of null; without regard to quality m order to reduce the percentage of other milkers to 10 per cent, and thus explained. The Freezing Company pay HA for milk containing ]0 per cent, of cream. Tn round "umbers, this is L'.ld for the tenth of the gallon of milk, or, say, one pound of cream, If the milk gave, VH> per cent of cream, the supplier would bo paid under the existing arrangement,--'vd—vi;!., 10 percent on 2.', d for every 2.', per cent above 10 per cent, and if of 1"> per cent. .'id. On the above premises ho should bo paid .Sid and 3 ! ,'rl respectively, thus proving that his policy lay "in keeping the quality by some means down to 10 per cent, thereby gaining in quantity and being paid in full rather than at less than half price for all cream over 10 per cent.—Yours, Ice, Taji.uikkk.