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and the price per pound of butter fat will therefore be 16 

 cents. The account will then stand as given in (232). 



235. Other systems of payment. Besides these four 

 systems of payment, there are various other agreements 

 made between manufacturer and producer, but with 

 them all the one important computation is the price to 

 be paid per pound of butter fat; this forms the basis of 

 calculating the factory dividends, when milk is paid for 

 by the Babcock test. 



236. Paying for butter delivered. In some instances 

 patrons desire to receive pay for the quantity of butter 

 which the milk delivered by them will make. This can 

 be ascertained quite accurately from the total receipts 

 and the total weights of both butter fat and butter. The 

 total money to be paid for butter (the net receipts) are 

 divided by the number of pounds of butter sold, to get 

 the price to be paid per pound of butter; the total yield 

 of butter divided by the total amount of butter fat 

 delivered in the milk, gives the amount of butter corre- 

 sponding to one pound of butter fat, and the pounds of 

 fat delivered by each patron is then multiplied by this 

 figure. This method requires more figuring than those 

 given in the preceding, and the dividends are no more 

 accurate, in fact less so, than when calculations are based 

 on the price per pound of fat. 



237. Relative-value tables. These tables give many of 

 the multiplications used in computing the amount due 

 for various weights of milk testing from 3 to 6 per cent, 

 of fat. They can be easily constructed by any one as 

 soon as the price of one pound of fat is determined in 

 each case. If the price to be paid per pound of fat is, 



