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butter-fat, while the average for the whole creamery for the 
month was 7.7 spaces. The number of spaces ranged from 5.1 to 
13.3 for one pound of butter-fat. In the case of patron 66, where 
only 5.1 spaces of cream were required for a pound of butter-fat, 
it will be noticed that the 45 spaces of cream which were reported 
as being furnished, weighed 53 pounds, or nearly 1.2 pounds per 
space instead of the two-thirds of a pound which a space of cream 
usually weighs. Evidently there was some mistake in the num- 
ber of spaces which were returned, and as the percentage of 
butter-fat is rather low, it may be that the patron was intending 
to return a higher number of spaces, but changed his mind when 
he saw that samples were being taken. It will also be observed 
that numbers 62 and 67 have large weights of cream as compared 
with the number of spaces reported. 
The percentages of butter-fat in the cream of this route ranged 
from 11 to 24 percent. The average for the route was 16.9 per 
cent. butter-fat. The fourth column from the last in the table on 
page 9 shows what was actually paid the patrons for the cream 
which they drew themselves. The next column gives its value as 
based upon what the butter-fat cost the creamery on the average 
for the month, and the next to the last column shows how much 
each patron was overpaid or underpaid for this lot of cream. With 
the exception of numbers 62, 66 and 67 above noted, nearly every 
patron received the full value or more. Probably in these 
instances, and perhaps in some others, there were mistakes made 
by the patrons in returning the number of spaces of cream. The 
last column shows the value per space of the cream which the 
patrons furnished when the entire cream of the month was paid 
for at the rate of 3 cents per space. It will be observed that the 
range is from 1.7 cents per space to 4.6; the three who were the 
most underpaid per space being Nos. 62, 66 and 67 above noted. 
Naturally these figures made considerable impression upon the 
managers of the creamery, and they desired further tests of the 
cream furnished them. As no complete observations had been 
made upon the comparisons of the butter-fat and space systems 
of paying for cream for long periods of time, such comparisons — 
were made by the Station in this creamery during the entire 
month of April, 1894. The actual payments of the creamery 
were made for this month, as for previous ones, by the space 
system. The table which follows gives the record of the cream- 
ery for the month, by both the butter-fat and the space systems. 
The arrangement is the same as in the preceding table. 

