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History of the 



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XII 



BUTTER TUBS IN CHICAGO 



Butter is usually associated -with 

 rural districts, in immediate associa- 

 tion with the dairying business; it 

 will, therefore, be a surprise to many 

 to learn that Chicago factories turn 

 out immense numbers of butter tubs, 

 using 22,000,000 feet of lumber for 

 that purpose. It is doubtful if any 

 other city in the country equals that 

 record. 



The reason for this large business 

 is not far to seek. Chicago is a 

 packing center with some of the 

 largest packing houses in the 

 world. Enormous quantities of but- 

 ter are handled, and the handling 

 often includes renovating and re- 

 packing: whence comes the demand 

 for tubs. Some packers make their 

 own tubs and others procure theirs 

 by contract. 



The list of woods employed in 

 this industry is not long, because 

 many woods are not suitable. Some 

 impart a taste or an odor which is 

 disagreeable; for butter and tobacco 

 are two commodities which most 

 readily absorb impurities from their 

 surroundings. Following is a list of 

 woods employed by makers of but- 

 ter tubs in Illinois. 



Kind o( Feet Used 



Wood Annually. 



Ash 31,855,000 



Basswood 2,000,000 



Cypress 2,000.000 



Red gum 2 000 000 



White oak 1,090.000 



Elm 455,000 



Beech 180 000 



White pine 140,000 



Birch 110.000 



Maple 70.000 



Yellow poplar 50,000 



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Total 39,950,000 



The important place held by ash 

 in this industry is apparent. Most 

 of it is white ash, but mixed with it 

 is some black and some green and 

 possibly one or two others. 



The white oak reported is nearly 

 all used as bottoms for tubs. 



Although the industry is classed 

 as butter tubs, it includes the manu- 

 facture of churns also, and these are 

 of different patterns, from the sim- 

 ple, old-fashioned churn with a 

 dasher to be worked up and down 

 by hand power, to the barrel and 

 box churns that revolve upon pivots 

 or have revolving mechanism 

 within. 



Fifteen per cent of the butter tub 

 material comes from the Lake States; 

 four per cent from Indiana, Ohio 

 and West Virginia, forty-five per 

 cent from the South, and the re- 

 mainder is not identified as to region. 

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