The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-20

prices paid for tho product there Is evil
IDENTIFY large margin for profit in it. The
business is now In the hands of a Joint
stock company, entitled the Scandinavian
preserved butter company, which COM
menced operations with a capital of about
one hundred thousand dollars, the shares
being held in Sweden and Denmark. The
company owns and operates q packing fac
tory, and purchases the butter from the
dairymen, who make ii of home under con-
tract and In accordance with a set of rules
which are strict and strictly enforced, so
! as to secure uniformity and excellence of
quality. The factory is conducted upon a
similar principle to one that not long ago
was put in operation in one of our western
states, but which soon failed, and the cause
of its success is abundantly worthy of
| note as showing wherein our factory might
| have avoided failure.
The factory is situated in Copenhagen,
and is quadrangular in shape, surrounding
| a large courtyard. Two of the work
rooms are partly underground, facing the
courtyard, and between them lies the re-
ceiving room, where the butter brought
from the diaries is received and sorted ac-
cording to quality. The factory is cooled
\ by system of ventilation in which air is
forced by steam power over metallic cham
| beTs filled with ice. The butter received
| in the shape of rolls in tubs is taken from
| the reception room to the work rooms,
where it is discharged upon slate the
rolls are scraped and then cut into slices an
| inch and half thick. The slices are
| placed in an American butter worker, the
kind used being that well known among
our dairymen, or at least those of them
who attend conventions and exhibitions,
and become acquainted with the machin-
| cry of their business, as circular table
upon which concal fluted roller is made
to traverse by power. The sliced butter is
placed upon this worker or kneader, two or
three pounds of salt to the 100 pounds of
butter is added, and the roller is driven by
steam power at the rate of ninety revolu-
tione p0r minute eight or nine times around
the table. There are three of these knead-
era IN the factory, which are able to work
over fifty tons of butter per week.
AS the butter ia taken from the worker
It is removed ia table mounted upon cas-
tors, which is pushed across the room to
The timing machine. This is provided
with table, in the center of which is
round hole large enough to contain one of
the tins. The tin placed in this is filled
with butter, which is closely pressed down
by means Of q rammer or packing disc,
operated by rack and pnion set in motion
by handwheel near the table. The but
ter is then smoothe1 around the edges with
q spatula, and a small portion around the
edge is removed to admit of the soldering
OF the cover. The soldering is performed
in a separate apartment, in which also the
tins are tested 10 ascertain il they are wa
tertight 10y being plunged into q tank of
water. A small underground passage or
tunnel connects the workrooms on either
side Of the courtyard. There are, in the
first story above these work rooms, a store
room, workshop and third work room.
In the last, the tins, brought thither by
hoist, are wiped clean aud dry, colored
red and labelled. They are then ready for
shipment, and are worth AZ wholesale from
thirty to City cents per pound. The latter
price is for the so-called "selected table
butter" When packed for export the tins.
weighing from half pound up TO twenty
eight pounds, are placed in iron-bound
wooden cases which are of uniform size.
The number of employees in the factory, in
addition to clerks, officers and workmen
engaged in making tins and packing cases,
is from one hundred TO one hundred and
twenty-five. This seems to be in excess of
what should be the the actual requirements
of such an establishment or for the actual
work done. Our suspicious in this regard
are verified by the fact that only small
net profit was realized in 1874, the last
year of which we have any report. Much
OF the butter being sold for ships stores
for use upon long voyages and in all CHI
mates, and the remainder bene sent to
tropical countries chiefly, it is obvious that
it's keeping qualities depend greatly upon
the method of its manufacture and care in
selecting only good and rejecting bad lots.
The rules enforced by the company upon
its contractors or patrons are well worth
particular notice from our dairymen. No
butter is accepted from dairymen who re-
fuse TO comply with the following regula-
tions, viz That the COWS shall not be fed
upon turnips that only perfectly sweet
cream shall be used in the churn; that the
cutter shall be worked upon the same kind
of machine that is used in the factory, or,
in small diaries, upon a hand machine of
the same make furnished by the company I;
and lastly, that the butter shall he deliver
ed weekly at price fixed for the whole
year. The factory was supplied in 1874
from 140 diaries. and as the supply was in
adequate to the demand, the company has
recently rented large farm and stocked it
with cows.-Neao York Times
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