COST OF MANUFACTURING BUTTER 



199 



Creamery making 40,000 pounds 

 Creamery making 50,000 pounds 

 Creamery making 60,000 pounds 

 Creamery making 70,000 poimds 

 Creamery making 80,000 pounds 

 Creamery making 90,000 pounds to 



125,000 pounds 

 Creamery making 150,000 pounds 

 Creamery making 175,000 poimds 

 Creamery making 200,000 pounds 



and above 



cost of making is 4 cents 



cost of making i2 3.4 " 



cost of making is 3.0 " 



cost of making is 2.88 " 



cost of making is 2.66 " 



cost of making is 2.00 " 



cost of making is 1.85 " 



cost of making is 1.65 " 



cost of making is i .44 " 



Hibbard and Hobson ' found the cost of making a pound of 

 butter in Wisconsin to be 2.33 cents (Table XVII). Macklin ^ 

 found this expense to be somewhat higher for Kansas (Table 

 XVIII). 



TABLE XVII 



Who Gets the Money? 



Farmer. . , 

 Hauling. . . 

 Creamery . 

 Railway. . 

 Storage. . . 

 Shrinkage . 

 Receiver ] 

 Jobber \ 

 Broker J 

 Packaging. 

 Retailer.. . 



Cents 



I -75 



1 .00 

 3-43 



34-55 



Per cent 



50 



2.9 



9-9 



These expenses from the Iowa report appear to be rather low 

 and it is likely that some of the expenses, perhaps such as in- 



' Bulletin 270, Wisconsin, 1916. 



2 Bulletin 217, Kansas, 1917. 



