BUTTERS -AT SVS. SPACE SYSTEM. 13 
been paid by the butter-fat which his cream contained, is shown 
in the next column, and the amounts underpaid or overpaid are 
shown in the last column but one. It will be observed that some 
patrons were very decidedly underpaid, and others were consider- 
ably overpaid during the month. One man, No. 127, would have 
received $6.87 more for his cream if he had been paid by butter- 
fat, than he actually received by the space system. The last 
column shows what each patron’s cream was worth per space 
when the creamery was paying 3 cents per space for all the cream 
used during the month. This ranged from 2.4 to 3.4 cents per 
space. 
As a result of this month’s trial, the creamery managers voted 
unanimously to adopt the butter-fat system of paying for cream, 
and they have been using this method for a year with satisfactory 
results. 
Partly to satisfy ourselves that the results obtained at this par- 
ticular creamery were not peculiar to it, and partly to show the 
managers of another creamery the unfairness of the space system, 
a week’s test was made at the latter. The results are given in 
the table on the next page. 
The total weight of the 8,814 spaces of cream was 6,661.7 
pounds. The average percentage of butter-fat in the cream was 
18.1; the lowest percentage of butter-fat was 14, and the high- 
est, 21.75 per cent. ‘The arrangement of the table is the same 
as the preceding. ‘The fourth column from the last, headed ‘‘ cost 
at 3c. per space,’ shows what was actually paid the patrons, the 
next column the amounts which they would have received if they 
had been paid by butter-fat system. ‘The last column but one 
shows how much each patron was overpaid or underpaid during 
the week. ‘The value per space of the cream on the butter fat 
basis is shown in the last column; it ranged from 2.6 cents to 3.6 
cents per space when the average price paid was 3 cents per 
space. This means that the patrons numbered 16, 19, 32 and 39 
each received $3.00 for each hundred spaces of cream which they 
furnished, when in reality the cream was worth only $2.60 per 
hundred; and that at the same time the patrons numbered 5 and 
4o were furnishing cream worth $3.50 per hundred spaces, for 
which they received only $3.00 per hundred. In other words, 
patrons 5 and 4o were each giving 50 cents per hundred spaces 
to their neighbors who were producing poorer cream. 
