The Portland daily press., 1893-02-22
WEIGHING TUBS OF BUTTER.
How the Creamery Man May Know How
Much Butter They Hold.

How the Creamery Man May Know How
Much Butter They Hold.
| Recently I was shown two account
sales, each for thirty tubs of butter, each
| made by an unquestionably good com
mission house in New York, both lots
made and shipped by the same creamery,
| and packed in same tubs, same way.
! One of the accounts showed forty pounds
net weight more than the other. The
shipper said he knew of no reason why
| (f there must be that difference) it should
be on one lot more than the other, as he
knew no difference.
suggest to creamery men: Whenever
you get a new style or make Of tub, and
are ready to pack them, in the first ship
ment put soaked tub on the scale and
balance it without cover Or anything
else, using a piece of lead, nails, etc.
| When the butter is all in it, weigh and
make record of the weight Of butter
| pounds and ounces in that package with
out cloth, salt, tub or anything. Treat
every tub same way. Ship the lot with
or without invoice, with or without gross
and tare marks, but keep the packing
record to yourself.
When your account comes in you are
| in position to check the weights, renem-
bering that there will be a little less
weight to sell than you put into the tubs.
| You will also know very nearly what
weight that lot of tubs holds with your
usual packing and character of butter.
Mr.. Moore advises to put one-fourth
pound more than just enough to tip the
beam on the pound. This would do if
ne were dealing with the actual gross
weight, tub, butter, cover, cloth, salt
and water. His idea is to have the gross
weight as above defined, one-fourth
pound more than some full pounds. He
cannot accomplish this unless he knows
weight Of tub and trimmings as above
He must pack and trim the tub before
ne can know how much butter to put in.
The rule mo fractions in weighing
applies to the gross, not to the net
weight. No buyer expects to weigh the
butter only in each tub, and apply the
rule ''no fractions"
Mr.. Moore's suggestion to put in each
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that the inevitable shrinkage will not
fall just below the full pounds, will fail
Of it's object, because the rule ''no frac-
tions in weighing" applies to gross weight
only. No buyer expects, and no seller
will furnish, the weighing Of the butter
in each tub and throwing off the frac-
tions. If COT pounds is put in tub
the gross weight of that tub ready to
ship may be one-fourth pound short of
seventy pounds, salable at sixty-nine
pounds. The one-fourth pound suggest
ed by Mr.. Moore as margin for shrink
age is as likely to be thrown away as not.
If the rule is ssno fractions to gross, !"
in determining tares, no injustice is done.
If the beam is hardly raised at seventy
pounds it is called sixty-nine pounds
gross. If the tub and trimmings hardly
raise the beam at eleven pounds it should
be called ten pounds tare to even it up.
After considerable experience, practi-
cal and in observation, it is the writer's
opinion that there is not often more or
hardly even so much butter in a ship
ment at the time of sale as the shipper
honestly believes there is.-Cor. Cream
cry Journal.