1896.] 



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Cows I., II. and Y. produced the smallest number of spaces 

 of cream, containing 16 to 16^ per cent, of fat. Cow III. 

 produced nearly 11 spaces of cream with 12 per cent, of fat. 

 Cows IV. and VI. produced nearly 8 spaces of cream each, 

 containing from 20 to nearly 22 per cent, of fat. 



According to the present system, cream is paid for at the 

 same price per space, whether it contains 12, 16 or 22 per 

 cent, of butter fat, i. e., whether equal quantities of such 

 cream w r ill produce 12, 16 or 22 pounds of butter. Under 

 this system a farmer with a herd of extra butter-producing 

 cows, yielding cream by the deep-setting process, contain- 

 ing 19 to 22 per cent, of fat, receives no more money than 

 another farmer who produces a like quantity of cream test- 

 ing but 15 or 16 per cent, of fat. The injustice must be 

 apparent to every thinking farmer. The investigation, as 

 shown in the above tables, might have been carried still fur- 

 ther by weighing the cream, calculating the amount of butter 

 fat produced, and seeing how much butter a given number of 

 spaces of each cow's cream would produce. • This was done, 

 however, in last year's investigation, and, at the risk of repe- 

 tition, the summary of the results bearing on this point is 

 presented in Table III. Our object in the present experi- 

 ment has been simply to show how the per cent, of fat in 

 the cream of six individual cows varied under exactly similar 

 conditions. 



Table III. — Summary of Results obtained in 1894 with Cream 

 gathered from 165 Farmers, shoioing Butter Equivalent from 

 100 Sjyaces of Graded Cream, and Value of Same. 



Pounds of Butter Fat prom 

 100 Spaces of Cream. 



8-12, 

 12-13, 

 13-14, 

 14-15, 

 15-16, 

 16-18, 



Number 

 of Patrons. 



! Kqu |^ tto 



(Pounds). 



6.1 

 14.0 

 31.5 

 24.9 

 18.2 



5.5 



13.42* 



14.58 



15.75 



16.92 



18.08 



19.83 



Value of But- 



ter at 



25 Cents 



per Pound. 



$3 35 

 3 64 



3 94 



4 23 

 4 52 

 4 96 



* Figured on the basis of 11.5 pounds of butter fat. 



