. The dairyman's manual : a practical treatise on the dairy, including the selection of the farm. Dairying. 294 THE DAIRYMAN^'S MANUAL. the air tends to injure the quality of the butter. If the butter is intended for immediate use it should neverthe- less be as carefully packed as if for a year's keeping. The fancy ways of putting up butter in cakes is not advisable unless they are immediately wrapped in paraffine paper, packed in a tight box and shipped at once. For family use we prefer a small pail holding five pounds, made of spruce or maple veneer, and supplied with a cover and a wire hand
. The dairyman's manual : a practical treatise on the dairy, including the selection of the farm. Dairying. 294 THE DAIRYMAN^'S MANUAL. the air tends to injure the quality of the butter. If the butter is intended for immediate use it should neverthe- less be as carefully packed as if for a year's keeping. The fancy ways of putting up butter in cakes is not advisable unless they are immediately wrapped in paraffine paper, packed in a tight box and shipped at once. For family use we prefer a small pail holding five pounds, made of spruce or maple veneer, and supplied with a cover and a wire handle (figure 55, a). This is very convenient and cheap. The pails are coated inside with paraffine, which makes them air tight, and when closely packed with butter and pressed smoothly on the top a sheet of paraffine paper is carefully spread and turned over the. Yig. 55.—yl, VENEER PAIL, holding five pounds ; B, veneer box, holding five pounds ; C, welsh pail, holding twenty pounds. edge and the cover is put on over it. The pail is then wrapped in strong paper and tied with twine, a paste- board ticket with the address being tied to it. We have been in the habit of pasting a printed paper over tl^e cover for the purpose of a business card and to further protect the butter from tlie air. Another very useful package is a five-pound box made of the same material. It is shown at h, in figure 55. For the regular trade we prefer the Welsh pail (c), holding twenty pounds, and made of spruce. This pail has a tight cover and costs less than a cent a pound for the butter in it. As this pail will generally sell the butter at considerably more than the usual price, it is easily afforded. All packages should be free. A returned butter pail is not a sweet. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stewart, Henry. N
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