MILK AND BUTTER.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 231, 26 January 1878, Page 3

MILK AND BUTTER.

(TVom I=ik " .\fary land Fanner".) There a:*<i no farme/s pr >rl notions so subjoH: to injuries from many slight causes as milk and butter, and none so sensitive to ni\j)lc:i>ant od w& of evory kind : non ■ tha? are so ni'uh -a- ir] so realily de' 0 -i > % ated m value as theseare. Hence, all kinds of uneleanliness should be avoided and the utmost neatness should be observed m every step of their production and from the very feedrag, handling, and milking of the cows, as well as treatment and handling of the milk, with the churning, working, and putting up of the butter. All of the implements used, the water and the salt used, and the rooms occupied m keeping the milk and making the butter, should be perfectly clean and sweet, m order to produce the best quality to secure high and fancy prices. No article that the farmer produces for the market has such a wide range or difference in 1 price as butter, not even cheese or choice fruit. We see by quotations m all the great butter markets that the prices of eating butter range all the way from I dollar to 10 cents per pound, while greasy, cooking butter is even lower than that ; even the packages m which it is put up, whether firkins, pails, tubs, or rolls, affect the prices for which it sells. Grains and meats have but a small range compared to butter; the differences m the prices of butter is much greater than the difference m the cost ; hence it is much more profitable to make and sell a firstclass article than a. poor one.