Milk plant monthly Volume 9

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...States. The prices given herewith are those paid or charged by the larger fluid milk marketing concerns of each city. If different dealers report different prices the highest and lowest prices are given in this table rather than an average of the different prices reported. In markets where there are active producers' marketing associations with whom dealers negotiate for a considerable portion of the city's milk supply, the association's selling price is indicated by an asterisk (). Unless the prices given in the first column of this table are followed by the letter "a" they apply to milk delivered to dealers at either city railroad terminals or at the dealers' distributing plant if deliveries are made direct from farms. When the price paid by dealers to producers applies to deliveries at country receiving stations and varies with different distance zones, the particular zone to which the given price applies is given in the foot note numbered to correspond to the number placed before the market in question. The term "standard grade milk" is used to refer to that grade of milk which is most generally sold within the particular city for which prices are quoted. This grade of milk may be either raw or pasteurized but in case of most of the larger cities it is pasteurized. The "dealer's spread" or the difference between cost and selling prices for both wholesale and retail transactions, can be ascertained if the butterfat test of milk as delivered to different classes of trade is known. The prevailing butterfat test varies with different cities. In many cities it ranges from 3.S to 3.7%, whereas in some cities it seldom ranges below 4.0%. To reduce prices per hundredweight to either a gallon or a quart basis divide by 11.63 or 46.5...