The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-01
EASY TO PRODUCE
 BUTTER AT HOME
Proper Equipment Is Great Aid to HouSekeeper-CleanIiness
 Is Essential.
STERIlIzER IS CONVENIENCE
Product Should Never Be Touched With the Bare Hands-Sanitary and Attractive Wrapping of Much
 Assistance in Marketing.

There Is no secret in making good butter. With proper care and atten' ton to details good butter can be made
 in any home. The quality of the but
 ter is dependent upon the intelligent
 use of equipment rather than the kind,
 although suitable equipment is time
 saving and labor-saving and can be
 purchased or made at nominal cost.
 Milk vessels should be of high-grade
 tin with all joints and seams smoothly
 soldered so that there will be no crev-
 ices in which dirt may accumulate. A convenient milk can to use is the
 three-gallon shotgun can. It should
 have Il smooth, heavily timed interior to prevent rusting and difficulty in
 cleaning. All buttermaklng equipment should be thoroughly scrubbed with a brush in hot water containing sal soda or washing powders. Never use dish cloth or soap. Inexpensive stiff fiber scrub brushes or vegetable brushes can be purchased at any grocery or hardware store. After equipment is washed 1t should be scalded or
 steamed. A homemade sterilizer will be found most convenient and helpful.
 Never Touch With Bare Hands.
 A medium-sized dipper strainer with fine-meshed gauge has been found 10 be very satisfactory. 1t should be smooth and free from seams. Butter should not be touched or handled with the bare hands It injures the quality of the butter and Is very insanitary. Wooden ladies can be easily whittled from maple. ash. or poplar, or bought at small cost thermometer is ab- solutely essential to successful butter making. Controlling temperatures is second only to keeping equipment clean. A floating dairy thermometer can be ordered from any dairy supply company.
 In making butter the salt should be | uniformly distributed and the granules pressed together into close grained mass and the surplus water worked out This can be most easily accom- pished by use of V-shaped lever butterworker made of one-nch mate rial. This worker is made of maple,
  all wooden butter equipment is made. Any woods from which odors or fla vors might be absorbed by the butter should not be used.
 Butter Workers Convenient.
 For the amount of butter made in most homes q butter worker IS inches long, 16 inches at the wide end and 21a inches at the narrow end is q conven- tent size. The sides are cut inches wide and are screwed to the bottom. The corrugated roller having six or eight sides Is 24 inches long. One | end of the roller is shaped to fit a small hole made in the piece across the 1 narrow end of the worker. This end piece is of a width that leaves slot l just above the bottom of the worker which allows the water to drain off l into pan as the roller is pressed firm Iy backward and forward over the but ter. The worker rests on three knobs or supports. The two knobs at the wide end are 31a inches high, while the knob at the narrow end is 2h inches.
 The most popular convenient and attractive butter mold is the brick shaped or square-cornered mold This mold can be made of ss inch material. The mold most commonly used is 4ss by 2A by 22s inches. An inch hole is bored through the center of the top and through the center of a plunger which fits closely into the mold. Through the hole in the top of the mold Is inserted the round handle which screws Into the hole in the plunger. Most satisfactory molds of this type can be found on the market.