212 Testing Milk and Its Products. 



ing the milk delivered. 1 The testing may be conven- 

 iently arranged by the method of composite sampling, 

 in the way already described for creameries (180). 



242. Calculation of dividends. As with creameries, 

 the price to be paid per pound of butter fat must first 

 be ascertained. The factory records should show the 

 number of pounds of cheese made from the total milk 

 delivered to the factory during a certain time, generally 

 one month, and the money received for this cheese. The 

 cost of making the cheese and all other expenses that 

 should be paid for out of the money received for the 

 cheese, are deducted from the total receipts, and the 

 difference is divided among the patrons in proportion 

 to the amounts of butter fat delivered in the milk. 



The weights of the milk delivered and the tests of the 

 composite samples furnish data for calculating the 

 quantities of butter fat to be credited to each patron. 

 The money to be paid to the patrons is then divided by 

 the total weight of butter fat delivered to the factory 

 and the price of one pound of fat thus obtained. The 

 money due each patron is now found by multiplying 

 the total number of pounds of butter fat in his milk by 

 this price per pound. 



The illustrations already given for calculating patrons' 

 dividends at creameries according to the various meth- 

 ods will serve equally well to show the manner in which 



1 Prof. Dean of Quelph (Ont.) agricultural college advocates adding 

 2 to the per cent fat in the milk in calculating the money due patrons 

 for milk delivered- at cheese factories. This method has IMM-II adopted 

 at many Canadian cheese factories and also at some factories in this 

 country. (Bull. 114, Ont. agr, college; Dean, Canadian Dairyman, p, 1N'>.) 



