Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Closer to home were graver distractions. Butter prices were skyhigh. New Yorkers at Buffalo, where butter was selling at 37? per Ib., were crossing to Fort Erie, Ont., buying the stuff for 24? per Ib. in spite of a vigilant campaign by U. S. customs agents against butter-legging. High butter prices did not indicate prosperity for Bossy's boss. On the contrary, drought has parched pastures of New York's great Mohawk Valley, sent feed prices up as much as 70%. Hard as it might be on city folks, it looked as if the dairyman would have...
...distributor to buy or a retailer to sell milk below prices set by the Agricultural Commissioner. Under these regulations wholesale milk prices varied according to the use the milk was put to. Drinking milk was in one class, brought $2.45 per cwt.* Milk to be made into ice cream, butter, cheese brought from $1.20 to $1.90. On the average, after deductions for freight and handling many a farmer netted only about...
...registered the sharpest weekly gain since the 1933 inflation scare. Only items likely to be depressed by drought are meat and hides, and those only temporarily. Slaughtering of cattle in drought areas increases the immediate supply. No trade was more agog about the commodity boom last week than the butter market. Like eggs, butter has an annual cycle in prices and production. Production of both butter and eggs touches bottom in November and December, then rises to a spring peak, eggs in May, butter in June, when pastures are usually greenest. Consequently butter prices are generally lower in summer than...
From Toad Lane in the Lancashire textile city of Rochdale dates not only the amazing growth of British co-operation but all modern consumer cooperation. There in 1844 amid the energetic jeering of local shopkeepers a little co-operative store was opened with a stock of flour, butter, sugar and oatmeal. The society's ?28 capital had been put in by its 28 members, most of whom were weavers. What these cooperators lacked in capital was more than made up in vision, for within twelve years their society was doing a $100,000 annual business, and the so-called...
Born. To Carnation Ormsby Butter King, 9. world champion milk cow, who last year produced 38,000 Ib. of milk, 1,750 Ib. of butter (TIME, Feb. 24); and Sir Inka May; mixed twins, their third set; at Carnation Farm, near Seattle, Wash...