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PACKING BUTTER 



the creamery sells direct to the retail store is sold in prints. 

 During the fall and winter, when the output is at ebbtide, many 

 creameries print all their butter. 



The individual or consumer's packages are two pound prints 

 or rolls, one pound prints, one-half pound prints and bars and 

 one-quarter pound prints. The predominating consumer's pack- 



Fig-. 74. Friday Box 



Fig-. 73. Friday Printer 



Courtesy J. G. Cherry Co. 



age is the one pound print of the following standard dimensions : 

 2y 2 x 2^ x 4^i inches, wrapped in parchment, or wax paper, or 

 both and slipped into a carton. Some creameries wrap an 

 additional paper around the carton and seal it at both ends. 

 Considerable quantities of butter are sold in one-half pound 

 and one-quarter pound prints wrapped in the same manner as 

 the one pound prints and varying in shape from a flat slab 

 to a so-called hotel bar. In New England, efforts are made 

 to establish a one pound print having twice the width, half 

 the depth and the same length as the standard one pound 

 print. Within the last few years the practice of putting the one 

 pound prints up in the form of four one-quarter pound bars, 



