212 THE BOOK OF BUTTER 



169. Cost of manufacture. — The cost of making whey 

 butter depends largely on the labor problem. Wing ' 

 states : " The manufacture of butter from the whey will 

 not ordinarily require much increased labor. The whey 

 can be run through the separator at the same time that 

 the latter part of the cheese-making process is going on and 

 the churning will take but a small amount of time and 

 labor. The additional items of expense will be storage 

 capacity for the whey and the separator." Doane ^ 

 itemizes the annual expense of making 6000 pounds of 

 whey butter as follows : 



Repairs . . ... $25.00 



Ice . 40.00 



Interest on investment . . 40.00 



Depreciation at 10 per cent . . 80.00 



Oil 5.00 



Salt ... ... 7.00 



Belts .... 9.00 



Butter paper for pound prints . 9.00 



$215.00 



" Coal, If cents per pound of butter made. Labor, 

 2f cents per pound of butter made." The total cost of 

 manufacturing butter in this experimental creamery 

 was a little over 7 cents a pound, and the greatest expense 

 was labor. 



Sammis ^ shows the cost of making whey butter in the 

 following table : 



1 Wing, H. H., Whey Butter, Cornell Univ. Agri. Exp. Sta., 

 Bui. 85, 1895. 



2 Doane, C. F., Whey Butter, U. 8. Dept. Agri., B. A. I., 

 Cir. 161, 1910. 



' Sammis, J. L., Making Whey Butter at Cheddar Cheese 

 Pactpries, Agri. Exp. Sta. Univ. Wis., Bui. 246, 1915. 



