AN EFFICIENT BUTTER-WORKER.
This butter-table is verj convenient, and well adapted for economizing labour. The top is a slab three or four inches in thickneis, to as to haro weight und solidity ; four feet long and two or three feet wide, according to the quantity of butter to be worked on it. It is mounted on four stout logs 27 inebci long. A rounded channol or groove passep around the edge to collect tho buttermilk, which runs otl'into a pail placed to receive it. The butter-worker is a triangular staff 1 three feet long, and four inches wide on each face, with a handle on one end and a sun el attachment whereby it hooks on to a staple fixed on ono hide of tho table at tho other end. Tho slab having been wathod with salt water and well rin«ed with cold viator, is ready for the butter aa it is taken from the churn. As soon as it is laid upon the table it is cut or gashed and pressed with the staff, and freed very quickly from the butlcr-iuilk.
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Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 294, 31 March 1874, Page 2
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182AN EFFICIENT BUTTER-WORKER. Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 294, 31 March 1874, Page 2
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