Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-04-27
Gilt Edged Butter.


While irst-olass butter always commands
a better price In market than common or
ordinary grades, clancy prices" depend, for
the most part, upon tho manner tho butter
is put up and sent to market, and the par
ticular customer or customers who may be
secured to use it. Some people are very
fastidious, and are willing to pay a large
price for best butter put up in . neat, at
tractive way, always supplied fresh and at
regular intervals. The butter must come in
pound or half-pound prints, each print nicely
stamped and perfect in form for the table.
In warm weather it must be sent in refrig-
orator packages and the greatest care be
taken that it shall arrive at the consumers
sweet, full Of aroma, and as perfect as when
it is first turned out by the manufacturer.
Customers who are willing 10 pay from
so to IS cents per pound for butter, are not
SO plenty as to be picked up at moments
warning. They must be diligently sought
for, and when found, their fastidious taste
for "gilt-cdged" butter must be grati6ed by
. uniform product. Probably nearly all the
leading butter merchants 10 our chief cities
are acquainted with more or less consumers
Of butter who are willing to pay an extra
price to be regularly supplied with an arti-
Gle such as we have named. First-oass
hotel-keepers are often able to direct to such
customers as well as merchants aud other
business men. We can give no specific di-
rections for obtaining such customers further
than that it should be done by personal in
quiry, as above suggested.
The Philadelphia butter package is made
of cedar plank, II to 2 inches thick, and
lined with tin. On the inner face are little
projections on which the shelves rest, and
upon these the balls Of butter are placed.
The package has small ice chamber in the
ends. The butter prints are wrapped 10
damp cloths and placed on the shelves, one
above another, in the tin-lined cedar tubs,
with ice in the compartments at the ends,
and then they 60 Immediately to the mar
ket. Mating is drawn over the tub, and it
is surrounded again with oilcloth, SO as to
keep out the hot air aud dust, and the but
ter arrives in prime condition when the dis
tauce is no further than that of our CORES
pondent from New York.
Some OF the butter makers who send but
ter 100 to $50 miles TO the market in WASH
iugtou, use boxes of thick plank with ice cham
bers in the center. The boxes are 81 by
16I inches and Is inches deep. The ice
chest is Of tin placed in the center Of the box
aud is 16I by inches, l5 inches deep. Al
The bottom there is hole which extend;
also through the box for the escape Of water
from the ice as it melts. Movable shelves
with cleats on the edges, are fitted on the box
on each side Of the ice-chest, tho one above
the other, for holding the prints. The boz
holds 10 shelves, five on each side Of the ice
chamber, and the shelves, when In place
leave space between each Of p inches, OIL
just sufficient to clear the tops Of the prints
Each shelf holds 20 halfpound prints or IL
pounds of butter and consequently the boz
Is sufficient for 100 pounds of butter. Th'
whole chamber packed and closed, and mat
ting drawn over, TO protect from dust, etc.
weighs about 230 pounds.
We are glad to see SO much attention be
ing paid to butter making throughout tn,
country to the production of frst-class ar
ticle. The only way to mako butter dairy
ing pay is by the production of 6rst-clas
product, aud in addition, great care must b
taken in the packages, to have them neat
clean and we'll made. The time has gon
by when common things ID coarse, soiled an
leaky packages are wanted, except at loV
prices for "grease. *. A. Willard.