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members, the balance going to all patrons, whether mem- 

 bers or not, according to the amount of butter fat in the 

 milk they sold to the creamery. An average of 40 cents 

 per pound was paid patrons for butter fat, a sum equaled 

 by only one other of the reporting cooperative creameries 

 of New England." 



In 19 1 3 the U. S. Department of Agriculture 1 reports a 

 total of 2,165 cooperative creameries distributed through- 

 out the country, as follows : 



Arkansas I 



Arizona i 



California 36 



Colorado 14 



Connecticut 15 



Delaware 2 



Georgia 2 



Idaho 3 



Illinois 62 



Indiana 67 



Iowa 308 



Kansas 7 



Kentucky 14 



Maine 7 



Maryland 3 



M assachusetts 8 



Michigan 105 



Minnesota 632 



Mississippi 1 



Missouri 16 



Montana 9 



Nebraska 14 



Nevada 3 



New Hampshire . . 6 



New York 120 



North Carolina .... 2 



North Dakota 43 



Ohio 32 



Oklahoma 10 



Oregon . - 8 



Pennsylvania 99 



South Carolina .... I 



South Dakota 46 



Tennessee 3 



Texas 19 



Utah 6 



Vermont 59 



Virginia 6 



Washington 1 7 



West Virginia 2 



Wisconsin 355 



Wyoming 1 



Total 2165 



Some of these creameries are organized and run on a 

 purely cooperative plan; the organization of others is tech- 

 nically that of a joint stock company, but in spirit is co- 

 operative. In the former type of organization the cream- 

 ery association is composed of patrons who own the cream- 

 er)- building and machinery and who are paid the entire 

 net earnings of the enterprise. Dividends on the stock are 

 limited to the current interest rate, in many instances to 

 6 per cent. Patrons are paid in proportion to the butter 

 fat supplied as indicated by the Babcock test. As long as 



1 Agricultural Yearbook, 1913, p. 244. 



