Butter in Collapsible Tubes.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 3 July 1914, Page 2

Butter in Collapsible Tubes.

They want butter in collapsible tubes in India. The heat is so in-

tense there that it is almost imjpossible to pack butter in tubs or tins, as it is fluid almost from the jmoment it is made. Then again, it spoils rapidly when exposed to the hot, moist air. This has seriously retarded the efforts of the Government to stimulate the dairy industry. So negotiations are in progress with the makers of machinery for the manufacture and filling of such tubes as are .used for oil-paints and tooth pastes. One of these manufacturers says the tubes would have to be made of pure tin, as ithe volatile acids of the butter would act upon lead and copper and form poisons. And such parts of the filling machines as are now made of copper would have to be of porcelain. The tubes are wanted in sizes to contain one pound, one-half a pound and a quarter of a pound, and they will be ordered in lots of from 2,000 gross to 5,000 gross.