Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-12-09
MoLpY RuTTER.
Not the Fault of the Parchment Paper.
but of the Wood.

but of the Wood.
Every case that my attention has
been called to has given the most posi-
tive proof that it was the fault Of the
wood in the tub or box where the mold
first started and that the paper in most
cases had prevented it reaching the but
ter, but in great many the mold had
penetrated the paper and affected the
butter. / have yet to see a case of mold
ON paper where the package was thor
oughly impregnated with brine or thor
oughly paraffined, although I have seen
packages where the outward appearance
of mold was plainly visible on the out
side of the slaves, but had been kept
from making its appearance on the in
side of the tub because it was SO we'll
saturated with brine or else perfectly
covered with parafin.
The worst feature of this mold is that
it has given our butter bad reputation
abroad. Many lots Of butter that have
not shown mold on leaving here have
developed it in transit and it is quite
frequently the case that parties on the
other side have had to strip the butter
of its paper scrape and repaper. This is
all great nuisance as well as serious
expense, and all interested in the butter
trade this side should use every effort
to stamp the nuisance out. Every re-
ceiver of butter should keep dinning at
the creamery man to prepare his pack
ages better as we'll as to use heavier pa
per, more especially in the matter of
boxes; SO many are using paper for this
package no heavier than that they use
for tubs.
There is no way you can awaken
PERSONS intelligence SO quickly as
through his pocketbook, and think if
our different butter exchanges III every
market would take the matter up and
pass rules regarding it it would help
more than any other way to stamp this
nuisance out Let it be given out that
moldy butter packages. no matter how
fine the butter may be, should be graded
as seconds or thirds, and in markets
where they score for points let them
take into consideration a number of
points for butter with parchment paper
or without. Where parchment paper is
not used at all and the tub not properly
soaked it should be fined at least eight
to ten points, and when parchment pa
per is used and the tub not properly
treated with brine or parafin it should
be fined SO many points
/ inspected lately large lot of boxes,
from 30 different creameries The
boxes were all northern spruce and
paratfined, and Ibid not see one solitary
package that was tainted with mold.
This was lot of June goods. The boxes
were all very nicely parafined, and the
papers were all moist with brine. These
packages were all treated by one party,
who sends them out to the creamery
men. These goods have been in cold
storage since June in the west, and L
saw them the eleventh day since they left
the western refrigerator. They had not
been exposed to any higher temperature
than the average temperature of the re-
frigerator car since. This was capital
chance for me, because it gave me some
idea of what would be the condition of
a lot of butter shipped out of refrigera-
ton from New York or Boston to Eng
land, so far as appearance went on ar
rival out.
ALI interested in the butter business
in this country should work quickly
and theoretically in this matter. Let
us see if we cannot stamp this nuisance
out as quickly as the Danes did when
they first commenced to use parchment
paper, and we cannot do better than to
follow their method in trying to eradi-
cate the trouble, and that is to go direct
to the creamery men and the creamery
supply companies. Creamery men should
inspect every package carefully, and
any that is tainted with mold they
should refuse to accept from the supply
companies. = George A. Cochrane in
Country Gentleman.