Arizona republican., 1891-08-25
CREAMERY INTERESTS.
BETTING THE PROCESS OF MILK
 TESTING DOWN FINE.

in Prorate the Value of Milk When rested by the Babcock or a Similar u.cbine-In Figuring Carry Out the r-.,tions of Mills in Decimals. rirst-Take fair sample of milk, and s,1 by the rules given for using the ma 'b;ne the per cent. of fat in the milk; ,bsn by multiplying the weight of the rbole body of milk from which the sam- 0,s came by the per cent. of fat found l, will show the whole weight of fat in the milk weighed in. From day to S,y through the month, or as often as ,asts are taken during the month, credit s,cb patron with the weight of the fat in tbe milk the test applies to. For instance, if one days milk of 300 pounds shows nar cent. milk, give the patron credit for twelve pounds of fat in the cheese or bntter that is subsequently included in A sale. If tests are made once a week ,dd together weight of milk back to former test, whether milk was delivered ak or seven days, as the case may be, and multiply the aggregate weight by the per cent. shown by the test.
 Second-When sale is made ascer- tsjn the weight of fat of all the patrons that has entered into the weight of the butter or cheese sold. From the sum obtained from the sale of either product, ar from both, if both are made, from the milk. deduct the cost of manufacture; then, using tine aggregate weight of fat in the sale as a divisor, and the sum of money left, after deducting the cost of manufacture, as a dividend, find the value of one pound of fat in either the butter or cheese, or both, if both are made and are in the sale. Then multi ply the weight of the fat each patron has Q his credit by the price found for one pound, and pay him so many dollars and cents Example:
 ll57 pounds of cheese sold at 9l4 cents. $s75.6a Deduct cost of making at lls cents. ...... l4s.00
 Balance to be divided. $7s369 Pounds of fat in the cheese sold, say t-l0
 of it's weight ......................... s,76 Value of each pound of fat (cents). ... s38s Mr. having put in l,O9LI7 pounds of
 lat from 4l93 pounds of 3.20 per cent.
 milk is entitled to.......................ss .ssilse BAaving put in l.60O pounds of fat from
 WuJl pounds of milk Is entitled to-. So9.Ss Cbaving put in eco pounds of fat from
 l2pDpo pounds of per cent. milk is en-
 titled dto........................ ll6.0 Dhavnr put in 4'2 pounds of fat from
 s.@l6 pounds of per cent. milk Is enti-
 
 Total paid the four patrons. .S733.6l which is within eight cents of the bal snCe ill the pool, as shown above. and that is about as "close q shave" as the average mathematician could make in working out a dividend, unless he had hint from omniscience just how far be had better take in or leave out frac- tons of mills l have purposely taken not round numbers for weight of milk, or per cent. of fat or price of cheese, because it comes as it happens on the books of the factory, and so put my self in the cheesemaker's place and help him all can.
 want to also call attention to the ab- soiute necessity of having the mills and fraction of mills carried out at least three figures to the right of the decimal Tn getting the value of one pound of fat for the muluplier of the aggregate fat of each patron, for the price of the pound IS very intense representative of the money in the pool.-J. A. Smith in Hoard's Dairyman.