BUTTER GLOBULES.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 1, 7 April 1894, Page 10

BUTTER GLOBULES.

To avoid white specks in butter keep bits of loppered casein out of the cream. It is as necessary to have thorough ventilation in the dairy-room as in the living apartments. Do not colour butter deeply unless your mai’ket demands it. A deep orange-hued butter is unnatural in colour. Butter is a commodity that is not liable to sell beyond its value ; that is, poor butter is not going to bring a good price. Even if you can “ guess ” on temperature to within half a degree, always use a thermometer in' cream before churning. Makers who never forget the fact that butter is a conglomeration of delicate fat globules, and who handle it accordingly, are the successful ones. The care ot butter does not end -with its being packed in tubs or jars. The packages should be stored in a cold atmosphere, kept pure by ventilation.

Do not fill the churn nearly full of cream and expect that it will separate into butter expeditiously. There must be free room for the cream mass to break and rebound under the force of concussion as the churn revolves.

Butter tubs or jars, before being used, even if new, should be scalded out with boiling water or be subject to a hot steam blast, and then immersed in cold water. They should be cold and moist when butter is packed in them. The creamery that makes butter nowadays without using the Babcock test ought not to receive patronage. This may seem a strong statement, yet without the use of this test the rich milk of a fine breed of cattle, well fed, brings no more than that yielded by scrubbers with a diet of straw. Never guess at the salt used in salting butter, any more than you guess at the temperature of cream. Weigh it down to the ounce after you have weighed the butter. Many experienced makers daily “ lump ” these articles off, because they think experience makes them technical guessers. Such a method is unscientific and dangerous. When you wash butter after the salt has been put in as some do, uniformity becomes impossible. Work butter continuously to incorporate the salt, and press it firmly into the tabs in packing, not violently pound it in. Selected.

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