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cents a pound only produced 30,000 pounds of butter per year. 

 The lowest cost of manufacturing was submitted by a co-opera- 

 tive creamery making nearly half a million pounds of butter 

 from whole milk exclusively. The approximate average cost of 

 making butter for the creameries in the State of Iowa at that 

 time was 2\ cents a pound. As labor, coal and all material used 

 in the manufacture of butter have greatly advanced, the cost at 

 the present time in the small creameries will exceed the above 

 figures. 



In a medium-sized central plant the cost should not exceed 



2 cents a pound. This does not 

 include the package. It includes 

 the cost of factory supplies, such 

 as salt, butter-coloring, milk for 

 starters, power, labor, refrigeration, 

 factory incidentals, factory main- 

 tenance and depreciation. The 

 cost of package will depend en- 



FIG. 1 1 g. Friday printer. 

 (J.G. Cherry Co.). 



FIG. 120. Friday box. 



tirely upon the kind of package used and the labor necessary to 

 pack. If the package used is the 60 or 65 pound tub or cubical 

 box, the cost of package and labor involved will not be very 

 great. If the butter is to be put up in fourth-pound or pound 

 prints, the cost will be much greater. At the present time, the 

 authors would place the cost, with the package included, at 3 to 

 3i cents per pound. 



