. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. Fig. 2t)3.—Koehler's Butter Package. additional butter, when ice is not needed. On the inside of the tin case are ledges to support wooden shelves holding prints of butter, and these may be left out for packing in rolls or large lumps. These tubs, with capacity for 25lbs. of butter in prints, are sold at 5 dollars for those with iron trimmings, and 10 dollars for those extra finished and full brass trimmed ; with capacity for lOOlbs., 13 dollars and 25 dollars respectively. A very han
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. Fig. 2t)3.—Koehler's Butter Package. additional butter, when ice is not needed. On the inside of the tin case are ledges to support wooden shelves holding prints of butter, and these may be left out for packing in rolls or large lumps. These tubs, with capacity for 25lbs. of butter in prints, are sold at 5 dollars for those with iron trimmings, and 10 dollars for those extra finished and full brass trimmed ; with capacity for lOOlbs., 13 dollars and 25 dollars respectively. A very handy form of preparing butter for the retail trade, in small packages, and of preserving it well, is that of D. C. Perrin, of Boston. The butter is made up (by press or otherwise) into eqiial-sized pound lumps, and each wrapped in a piece of transparent paraffined paper. Four of these lumps closely fit into a box of very thin wood, which has received an odourless and wat e rpr o of coating. A strip of pap<r pasted around the cover her- metically seals the package. The butter is admirably pi-otected, and the retailer saves all labour in cutting out and weighing, and all loss by waste and shrinkage, whether the cus- tomer takes the little four-pound box or a single lump, in its clean, impervious wrapjun*. The pack- age may be varied in size of lumps, and the whole, 61 ^' Fig. 264.—1'ekkin's Butter Package. wrappers included, can be furnished at a less cost than the common five and ten pound round wooden boxes, with covers. N. Waterliury, of Baltimore, Maryland, makes a one-pound butter-box, with packing-tools to match, also intended for use in the retail trade. The boxes are thin bauds of wood, bent rouixl, lajiped, anil sewed together with a machine, with loose circular wooden guards for top and bottom, all to be well soaked in brine before using. Four bands, after being filled, with eight guards, and two stiff circidar head-blocks at the ends, are placed in a little fra
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