A CHEAP BUTTER-WORKER.
Our We3t Coast correspondent sends the following sketch and description of a butterworker he saw at Mr Chew Chong's dairy factory :— " The butter-worker is a simple contri wince, and any farmer could make one like it. This is how it is constructed.
A table is made, about two feet high at one ■end, and three feat at the other, and seven feet 'onij. At the low end of the table the top is about one foot broad, at the other (the high end) it Is three feet. For pressing the butter a long triangular pole is used, a spike at one end being let into a staple at the narrow end of the table. The stick is worked backwards and forwards on the butter from the other end, and the knack of working the stick is easily acquired. Two small grooves are made about an inch from the edge of the table to carry ■off all buttermilk, etc. Two small gutters connect, with the grooves, carrying away refuse to a large tin. Rata is the timber used Un- a surface, but any other timber would do equally well."
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 240, 4 February 1888, Page 8
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191A CHEAP BUTTER-WORKER. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 240, 4 February 1888, Page 8
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