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the receipts at 3 cents per pound, $133.73. The expenses were 

 $384.11. The price paid the farmer 30 cents per pound. The 

 amount of extra hauling, $22.66, and the buttermilk, $8.54, and 

 the average test for all the milk was 4.3. The expenses were 

 more than the earnings. 



As I said before, the creamery was in a very bad condition 

 at the time we bought, and we had almost to remodel it. We 

 had to put in new machinery as the old was in such bad shape. 

 It will not be necessary for me to read all these figures. 



In January it was 81,374 pounds of milk, and in June it run 

 up to 407,857 pounds. The butter by test was 16,814 pounds 

 in June and by churn 18,232. The receipts for butter,, $3,362.22, 

 and amount paid to patrons, $2,898.31. Earnings of the cream- 

 ery, $582.05, and the expenses only $303.61. The price paid 

 was the lowest of the year, only 17 cents. The expenses, $161.66, 

 which was paid out of the stockholders' money in the treasury. 

 Buttermilk, $13.09. Average test, 4. 



The grand total for the year for milk was 2,730,570 pounds. 

 Butter by test, 112,099. The receipts for that butter were 

 $26,639.71. Money paid to patrons, $23,475.14. The earnings 

 were $4,022.57 for the year, and the expenses were $4,276.30. 

 So you see our expenses were about $200.00 more than our 

 earnings. That looks like running behind, and we were in a 

 way. But we paid out for milk hauling $955.00. That is some- 

 thing no other creamery will do. If that had been left in the 

 treasury, we would have had a good dividend. 



We also spent $1,000.00 to remodel that creamery. We 

 won't have to do that now. Considering we expect to have 

 $1,000.00 in the treasury on the first of January, 1907, we will 

 have a good dividend. 



We paid five cents for every hundred pounds that we could 

 get extra. Average price paid to the farmer 24.5c, for his butter- 

 fat. The receipts for buttermilk, $131.98, and the average test 

 4.20. 



So you see a creamery can be run successfully and some 



