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CREAMERY BUTTER MAKING 



Butter Slips, It is customary with creamery patrons 

 to take the butter for their use at the creamery and have 

 the value of it deducted from their check. If all butter 

 thus taken were to be recorded in the day book and from 

 this transferred to a patron's butter book, it would involve 

 a great deal of labor for the butter maker. Hence the use 

 of butter slips. These are small slips of paper on which 

 the small butter accounts are kept until the close of the 

 month. Below is illustrated one of these slips : 



