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receipts up to $8.04. This shows a profit in sweet cream selling 

 over selling fat for butter-making purposes of 88 cents per day 

 on a herd of 20 cows. In practice a slightly smaller sum would 

 be received because of the mechanical losses of fat in handling. 



If the same milk were sold at $1.50 per hundred it would 

 bring $7.50, or 54 cents less than in the selling of sweet cream 

 and 34 cents more than in selling butter fat. 



If butter be made on the farm from the same milk there 



Fig. 120. — Cooperative creameries make dairying profitable. 



will be made about 21 pounds. If this is sold at 30 cents per 

 pound the sum of $6.30 will be realized. To this amount should 

 be added the value of the skim milk and the buttermilk remain- 

 ing, which will be about 480 pounds. This will be worth about 

 $1.92, or a total of $8.22. 



Summarizing results we see that 500 pounds of 3.6 per cent 

 milk sold in the four different ways bring the following results : 



Milk will bring in $7.50 



Sweet cream will bring in 8.04 



Butter fat will bring in 7.16 



Butter will bring in 8.22 



