MAKING BUTTER IN BRAZIL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 169, 1 March 1878, Page 3

MAKING BUTTER IN BRAZIL.

The greater part of the butter used in the cities of Brazil is said to imported from France, Germany, and Ireland, principally from the latter market, notwithstanding that thousands of cows graze on the vast pampas in South America. The native butter of Brazil is of an inferior quality, and their dairying is of the most primitive and unsatisfactory character, yielding a product of a very inferior kind. The American Dairyman states that there are four native modes of making butter in the Empire of Brazil. The first is by putting the milk in a common bowl and beating it with a spoon, as you would an egg. The second, by pouring the milk into a bottle and shaking it till the butter appears, when it is removed by breaking off the top of the bottle, as bottles are valueless in that part of South America dn account of the vast number imported with foreign fruits and liquids. The third, where the dairy is more extensive, is performed by filling a hide with the milk, which is lustily shaken by an athletic native at each end until butter is produced. The fourth, indicating vast progress over and beyond any of the preceding methods consists in draging the hide or leathern vessel, filled with milk, on the ground after a galloping horse until it is supposed the butter is formed. The milk is never strained and the butter never washed.