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Show TRACING LOST BUTTER FAT. Msny Ways Ir. Which It May Disappear Disap-pear from Sight. Tho following from tho Athens (Wis.) Hocord Illustrates tho many ways In which butter fat may disappear disap-pear from sight: Ond"of the neighboring farmers came Into tho ofllco tho other day Just after receiving his check from tho creamery, and by his fictions Termed Ter-med onco moro tho fact that n man arrives at some very wrong conclusions conclu-sions when ho jumps nt thorn, rather thnn arriving nt them ns a result of deliberation. Ills stntemont fur tlio month showed him that he hnd delivered deliv-ered to tho croamory about 203 Ioundn of cream testing 38 per cent, butter fat, making the amount of butter fnt delivered 77.1 pounds. Ho Is ono of tho farmors who is keeping n milk sheet, nnd his record showod that his cows have produced for tho month of August 109 pounds of butter but-ter fat. Our friend naturally arrived Immediately at tho conclusion that tho creamery had beaten him out of 32.8 pounds of butter fnt. "Ills heart was hot agalnBt them," and ho was lotting n llttlo of tho hoat out. Thirty-two pounds of butter fat is qulto a llttlo bunch, nnd wc proceeded proceed-ed to look for It not In tho cream ory, but somowhero betweon tho cows and tho creamery and to our satis, faction and to his surprlso, wo found nearly nil of It. It so happened that wo had tested our frlond's skim milk and found that It contained nbout .4 of ono pr cent of butter fat. Tho total milk produced by tho cows during tho month was 2,530.9 pounds, which retaining re-taining A of ono per cont. of fat would retain In nil 10.12 pounds of buttor fat. Horo was a third of our butter fat going Into tho skim milk, nnd for which by no manner of reasoning rea-soning could tho croamory mnn bo held rosponslblo. Yet our friend was blnmlng tho crenmory man when In reality his separator was robbing hlm of n portion of his butter fnt. Another portion of tho buttor fnt wo found in tho cream that was kept nt homo during the four Sundays of August. Hero wo found that 10 pounds of tho butter fnt, or halt of tho fat that had disappeared on tho way from tho cow to tho pay win dow. Thero still rcmnlncd six pounds to bo accounted for, nnd this our friend was willing to ndmlt could easily be found In tho llttlo amount of c renin thnt Is nlwnyn left In tho separator bowl, In tho crenm loft In tho enns In hnndllng; could easily ho found In tho many llttlo chances for loss thnt nro met with on tho way from tho cow to tho creamory, and ho wns willing to admit that ho had been hasty nnd thnt tho trouble was with himself nnd his methods ot figuring, or not figuring. |