Archive image from page 390 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 193.—Bltter-scales. to mai-ket in ordinary baskets, packed in tliem in layers with cloths between. On this plan the butter is often much crushed and disfigured, and as it is thus less inviting in appearance it has to be sold for less money. In such a product as butter appear- ance counts for much. There is still a good deal of crudity in the way English farmers sell their butter, as well as in the way they prepare it for sale. It is no
Archive image from page 390 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 193.—Bltter-scales. to mai-ket in ordinary baskets, packed in tliem in layers with cloths between. On this plan the butter is often much crushed and disfigured, and as it is thus less inviting in appearance it has to be sold for less money. In such a product as butter appear- ance counts for much. There is still a good deal of crudity in the way English farmers sell their butter, as well as in the way they prepare it for sale. It is not uncommon, in some parts of the country, to make it up into '|-lb.' prints, weighing 9 or 10 ozs., and into ' lb.' ones, weighing 18 or 20 ozs. Most farmers' wives give 1 oz. in the lb. over-weight, with a pennyweight added—this seems to be a common practice at all events in the Midland counties— and others we have known to give 2 or 3 ozs. more for the sole and only reason of being able to sell for a penny a lb. more than their neighbours. In the City of New York fancy butter, sent out in a neat and orderly manner, commonly commands from half-a-crown to four shillings a lb. Sent out carelessly, crushed and bruised by the way, the same butter would not fetch much moi-e than half the money. In Fig. 194. we give an illustra- tion of an Ameri- can return butter- package, for carry- ing ' prints ' of the best butter to market; the prints are wrapped in muslin cloths and placed in the tins on the shelves, and the shelves are fastened down in such a manner that no jolting of the butter takes place, and it is delivered at its journey's end in perfect condition. For sending butter in bulk to the retail dealers, who sell it out in small quantities, various kinds of tubs, casks, or jars are vised. In Fig. 195 we give an illustration of a newly- rj4.~AMERic,VN Iii;riER- CAKRIER. invented tub that is used for this purpose in the United States. It is made of white ash, white oak,
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