214 Testing Milk and Its Products. 



The money to be paid to the patrons is then divided by 

 the total weight of butter fat delivered to the factory 

 and the price of one pound of fat thus obtained. The 

 money due each patron is now found by multiplying 

 the total number of pounds of butter fat in his milk by 

 this price per pound. 



(b) Dividends based on fat and solids-not-fat (lacto- 

 meter readings). A close estiinate of the cheese value 

 of each patron's milk may be made, as explained in 

 par. 224, b., by the use of table XIII in the Appendix. 

 When the cheese yield of each patron's milk is found by 

 this method, the money to be distributed among the 

 patrons is divided by the sum of the figures found 

 by these two tests, instead of by the total butter fat. The 

 figure thus obtained is the price to be paid each patron 

 per pound cheese that may be made from his milk as 

 shown by both the fat test and the lactometer reading. 



(c) Dividends based on "the fat plus tivo metlioa. ' 

 The money due patrons for milk delivered at cheese 

 factories may be calculated by adding two to the per 

 cent, of fat in the milk, and otherwise proceeding as 

 explained above under par. 242a. This is the method 

 advocated by Prof. H. H. Dean of Guelph (Ont.) Ag- 

 ricultural college.^ It has been adopted at many Cana- 

 dian cheese factories and at some factories in this coun- 

 try. 



(d) Dividends based on the fat and casein tests. The 

 results obtained by the fat test and the Hart casein 



^ Bull. 114, Out. Agr. I'ollegc ; soe also Dean, Canadian Dairying, p. 

 146. 



