Arizona republican., 1898-04-15
MOLDY BUTTER.
Not the Fault of the Parchment Paper,
 But of the Wood.

Every case that my attention has 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 butter, but in a great many the mold had penetrated the paper and affected the butter. I have yet to see case of mold on paper where the package was thoroughly impregnated with brine or thoroughly parafined, al though I have seen packages where the outward appearance of mold was plainly visible on the outside of the slaves, but had been kept from making it's appearance on the inside of the tub because it was so well saturated with brine or else perfectly covered with parafin.
 The worst feature of this mold is that it has given our butter bad rep utation 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 par | ties on the other side have had to strip the butter of its paper, scrape and repaper. This is all a great nui- sance as well as serious expense, and all interested in the butter trade this
 side should use every effort to stamp
 the nuisance out. Every receiver of
 butter should keep aiming at the
 creamery man to prepare his packages better as we'll as to use heavier paper,
 more especially in the matter of boxes;
 so many are using paper for this pack
 age no heavier than that they use for
 tubs.
 i There is no way you can awaken a persons intelligence so quickly as i through his pocketbook, and I think if our different butter exchanges in
 every market would take the matter up
 and pass rules regarding it it would
 help more than any other way to stamp this nuisan-e out. Let it be glv-
 en out that moldy butter packages. no
 matter how fine the butter may be, 1 should be graded as seconds or thirds
 and in markets where they score for points let them take into considera- tion number of points for butter with parchment paper or without. Where parchment paper is not used at all
 and the tub not properly soaked 1t should be fined at least eight to ten points, and when parchment paper IS
 used and the tub not properly treated
 with brine or paraffin it should be fined
 so many points.
 I inspected lately large lot o1
 boxes, from twenty different creamer- ies. The boxes were all northern spruce and paraffined, and I did no see one solitary package that was
 tainted with mold This was a lot O. June goods. The boxes were all very nicely paraffined, and the papers were all moist with brine. These package: were all treated by one party, wht :, sends them out to the creamery men . These goods have been in cold storag
 since June in the west, and I saw then
 the eleventh day since they left tn
 western refrigerator. They had no t been exposed to any higher tempera t ture than the average temperature o [ the refrigerator car since. This was f capital chance for me, because it gay l me some idea of what would be tn e condition of lot of butter shipped ou = of refrigeration from New York o r Boston to England, so far as appear r ance went on arrival out.
 e All interested in the butter bushes f in this country should work quick t and energetically in this matter. Le y us see if we cannot stamp this nuisanc = out as quickly as the Danes did whe : they first commenced to use parchmeI n paper, and we cannot do better than Q follow their method in trying to erad y cate the trouble, and that is to go d }, rect to the creamery men and tn
 creamery supply companies. Creamer l. men should inspect every packae y carefully, and any that is tainted wit V. mold they should refuse to accept frol n the supply companies.-George l