Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-23


/ INFLUENCE OF ATTRACTIVE BUTTER
PACKAGEs.-Many dairymen do not seem
to understand that dairy products, put up
in neat and attractive packages, will com
mand better prices and will make reader
sale than when goods of the same quality
90 upon the market in shabby, soiled pack
ages. A clean, nicely-made tub, firkin, or
box is, from its very appearance, Il sort of
guarantee that the contents have been
carefully attended to, and that neatness,
cleanliness and goodness have not been
confined to the package alone but that it
is Il fair representation Of the product
within. And this is generally true in fact;
for the man who sends to market poor
and slovenly-made article is not apt to
pay much attention to the package. The
consumers of high.priced butter are fastdi-
Gus, and loosely-made, dirty package will
often carry such prejudice against the
goods within as to prevent an eXamina-
ton. We saw this example recently in
the market at Little Falls.
A gentleman who is very particular rs
to the quality of the butter used in his
family, and who is always willing to pay
an extra price for good article, went up
on the market and asked dealer to select
for him something fine. The dealer took
him to the wagon of butter dairYman
who had something of a reputation for
nice goods. but, on that particular day in
question, his butter was packed in cheap
packages, badly soiled. On observing this
the gentleman refused to make an exam
nation of the goods saying TO the dealer
that no matter how fine the flavor of the
butter might be, the impression produced
from the package, would always make it
taste nasty to him, and therefore he would
not purchase it. This is by no means an
unusual occurrence, and it shows the i'm
portance of putting up dairy products in
an attractive style.
There is scarcely an article Of food on
the market that requires such scrupu-
lous neatness in appearance as butter, in
order 10 command ready sales at good
prices. If wooden packages are used
those made from oak are the best, and they
should be nicely finished and strongly
hooped so rs not 10 admit of leakage A
leaky butter package is nuisance, and is
entirely quilted for keeping butter sound
for any considerable length of time. Me.
tallic packages are coming into use and
they are an improvement on the old coarse
wooden tub. Now that prices are ruling
low the greatest attention should be given
to putting up butter in an attractive FORM
Let the quality be good, and see to it that
the package is neat clean and sweet, and
in this way an advance in rates may be
cxl ected-.hoOre'S Rural.
LAMBS AT NG-TME.-Some writ
er, who reminds us of John Burroughs.
remarks that the sleeps acuteness of ear
is one of the wonderful things in nature.
The droll picture he draws of the Young
creatures perplexity between its hearing
and its eyesight, has been witnessed by a
good many of us in the June farm days.
The eve will distinguish her own lamb
bleat among thousand. all bleating at
the same time Besides the recognition of
voice is perfectly reciprocal between the
eve and the lamb, who, amid the deaien-
ing sounds, run to meet one another. |
There are few things which have ever
amused me more than the shccp-shearing,
tNdA lLVu t4IC pun NDIiNI4iutS lllt W iIOIt |
day. We put the flock into the fold, send |
ont al the lambs to the hill, and then send |
the ewes to them ms they are shorn. The |
moment that lamb hears its dams voice, |
it rushcs from the crowd to meet herr but
instead of finding the rough, well clad,
comfortable mamma which it left IN hour
or few hours ago, it meets a poor Naked
most deplorable looking crea-
,ure. 1t wheels about and uttcring Il loud
tremendous bleat of perfect despair, flies
from the lrightful vision The mothers
voice arrests its flight. 1t returns, flies,
and returns again, generally for ten or 4
dozen times, before reconciliation is per-
fected.-Selec!cd.
STABLE DCNG A PERFECT MANuRE.-
When the world was made. its Creator