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Blanchard occupies but little space at any time, its cost is veiy 

 modonite, its workmanship is worth}' of all praise and it not only 

 churns the butter most satisfactorily, but in it you do half of the 

 working of the butter. Beginning with a good cluirn nearly a 

 century ago, the makers of this one have kept activel}' o})serving 

 and experimenting, and feeling the pulse, so to speak, of the best 

 dairymen, until in their latest round top, fixed fioat pattern, the}- 

 offer the dairyman a churn which not only produces butter remark- 

 able for its grain and uniformity but one which occupies little space 

 when at rest or in operation, is very durable, is easil}' worked, 

 easily cleansed and easily paid for. 



EVENING. 



BUTTER FACTORIES AXD FACTORY BUTTER. 

 By Major Henry E. Alvord, of Houghton Fiirm. Oranjje Co.. N". Y. 



Ten 3-ears ago, Chicago and the States west of that city depended 

 upon the P^ast for more or less of the butter there consumed. Last 

 3'ear besides supplying its own rapidly inci-easing population, that 

 region shipped eastward from Chicago a round 100,000.000 pounds 

 of butter, and an almost equal weight of cheese. 



When butter began to come from the west it was not an article 

 that eastern dairies were afraid of. Look back on I3' a few years and 

 you will find "Western Grease" quoted in all the New Y'ork market 

 reports. That meant the butter from Illinois and Iowa. But when 

 in the autumn of 1876 the prizes were awarded in the Dairy Depart- 

 ment of the Centennial Exposition, much to the disgust of eastern 

 dairymen and to the astonishment of all, the Gold Medal for the 

 best June butter went to Iowa, and the Gold Medal for the best 

 October butter to Illinois. The judges marked on the scale of 100 

 points for perfection. The best eastern lot of butter shown was 

 marked 84 ; three western lots were 85, 94 and 94. 



The next large dairj- show was held at Chicago, December, 1877. 

 There the first premium for factory butter went to Illinois, second to 

 Wisconsin, and third to Wisconsin ; and for dairy butter, first to 

 Illinois and second to Wisconsin. 



