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and disbursements, as well as salaries, have been paid, and 20 
per cent, of the value of the plant has been deducted, are to be 
disposed of in the following manner : — 
(a) 6 per cent, interest is to be paid to the shareholders on 
their presenting the coupons of interest. 
{b) Of the remainder, one-tenth is to be set apart for a reserve 
fund, which, in the event of a bad season or other circumstance 
causing the balance to be so small as not to cover the interest at 
the rate of 6 per cent, on the shares, may be employed in sup- 
plying the deficiency. 
(c) What thereafter remains is to be divided betweer^ the 
directors, the shareholders, and the purveyors of the milk, in 
such a manner that the directors receive one-fourth, and the 
shareholders and milk-purveyors the remaining three-fourths. 
(c?) The amount falling to the share of the directors is divided 
in such a manner that the managing director receives one-half, 
the chairman one-fourth, and the other directors the remaining 
fourth, to be divided in equal shares among them. 
(e) The division of the balance between the shareholders and 
the purveyors of the milk is made so that those purveyors who 
have furnished the factories during the whole of the previous year 
with milk to an amount of not less than 5000 "kannor" (2900 
gallons), shall for each 2500 " kannor " (1450 gallons) delivered 
at any dairy of the company, partake in the division equal to one 
share. 
The milk from the different farms that have entered into con- 
tracts with the company for the delivery of that produce is con- 
veyed, every morning and evening, immediately after the milking, 
to the nearest of the sixty stations at present fixed by the com- 
pany for receiving the milk. It is there poured into tin vessels 
holding about 14 "kannor" (8 gallons), 20 x 13 inches each, 
which are placed in water, cooled so as to be from 36 to 40 
degrees Fahrenheit, and are left there until the cream has risen. 
The skimmed cream is conveyed by railway or steamer (during 
the winter also on roads) to the central factory, where It Is made 
into butter in five churns, worked by a steam-engine of 4-horse 
power, by which 5000 pounds of butter can be churned per day. 
At some of the branch factories, where at least 500 gallons of 
milk per day may be obtained, the company intend to try the 
production of Cheddar cheese, but at present that description of 
cheese is not made. The butter is exported ; the skim-mllk 
cheese, prepared In the Dutch manner, finds a good market at 
home. With regard to the quality of the butter, the most flattering 
testimony has lately been received from London factors. 
The capital of the company Is fixed at 55,000/., but as soon as 
8000Z. were subscribed — which was done In two days — the cora- 
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