The record of the first patrons in 1895, from June to December, indicates John C. Clark sold 29,475 pounds of milk, receiving $185.11. Butterfat was worth 17.371 cents per pound. In 1902 he was still the highest producer, receiving $289.00, from a total of 39,770 pounds of milk. Edward MacEwen was the highest producer in 1909. He received over $1200.00 for a season’s milk production. In the same year, 142 patrons supplied 2,231,498 pounds of milk for 212,665 pounds cheese selling at 10.7 cents per pound.

The last year that cheese was produced was 1934. There were 62 patrons who supplied a total of 652,037 pounds of milk for cheese. However, the price for cheese had begun to decline. It dropped to 10.4 cents from a high of 23 cents per pound, which was reached in 1918. The aver- age milk price to the farmers in the last year of production was 62.3 cents per 100 pounds of

milk.

In 1901, there were 2,174,599 pounds of milk received. From this 202,883 pounds of cheese was processed at an average price of 9.06 cents per pound. The price to the patron was 68.02 cents per 100 pounds of milk. This was a commendable record for this early date because there were only 181 milk patrons. The highest was Robert MacKay, with 45,312 pounds of milk, which receipted him $296.00, for season, which lasted from May 30 to October 31. Manufacturing in 1916 lasted from May 29 to November 4. The milk was supplied by 131 patrons. This was a drop of 50 milk patrons. Many farmers changed to separating their milk year—round. This brought a larger cheque to the farmer, who also had the advantage of using the

milk for his animals.

Another interesting note is that there were fourteen milk haulers (drawers as recorded), in 1902. Six of them came from the north shore to the east of Stanley Bridge. The area gave excellent support to the factory, and, as the Statistics records show, many of the Executive members of the Dairying Company also came from these communities.

Rather than give a monthly salary to the Manager, the Directors chose to pay him a stated amount of money per the number of pounds of cheese produced. This policy continued until 1922 when the salary was set at $140.00 per month, plus a bonus of 90% cwt., if more than 73

tons of cheese was manufactured for the season.

A policy as this must have been rather upsetting for the manager, as no month’s wages would be the same as the previous month, and he was completely dependent upon the whim of the farmer to send his milk. However, it is interesting to note that in the cheese season of 1896, the com— pany paid the Manager $300.00, while in 1900, he received $252.23 for the cheese season, plus $250.29 for the butter season, but, with the policy change, the Manager’s salary jumped to

$1,729.55.

The three highest salaries were as follows: 1919 - Mr. Keefe - $3,576.52 1920 - Mr. Keefe — $4,469.29 1921 - Mr. Keefe — $4,028.99

When one compares this with the total sales of butter and cheese sold in these years, the follow—

ing is the record: 1919 - $49,759.38 1920 - $46,652.80 1921 - $27,000.49

At the Annual Meeting held February 20, 1920, a motion was presented by Daniel Sutherland and seconded by RP. McGuigan, that “the Directors be authorized to arrange for the putting (installing) in factory of a suitable plant and proceed to manufacture whey butter if found prac—

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