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cheap, and feed and labor are high, probably the average market- 

 price will be hardly more than enough to pay the expenses of 

 cultivation and manufacture ; while the slightly, and indeed often 

 the considerably higher prices that extra care enables us to realize, 

 will throw the balance very satisfactorily to the right side of the 

 sheet. 



In putting up butter for distant markets, much attention should 

 be paid to the style of the package. Oak pails, such as are used by 

 farmers in the vicinity of New York, holding from ten to twenty 

 pounds of butter, always command a better price for their contents 

 than do tubs containing butter of the same quality. It has been 

 recently discovered by dairymen, even as far west as Ohio, that by 

 using the form of tub that has long been in use in Orange 

 County, New York, and by branding the cover " Orange Coun- 

 ty," or " Goshen," t'hey can secure a sufficiently larger price 

 for the same quality of butter to defray the expenses of shipment 

 and sale. Of course these practices are not to be recommended, 

 and it is a subject of regret that those who purchase butter in the 

 large markets, care so much more for its appearance than for its 

 quality. But the fact certainly exists that this high value is at- 

 tached to the simple matter of looks, and he would be an unwise 

 man who would refuse to avail himself of the suggestion hereby 

 given, not to the extent, of course, of adopting a false brand, but 

 by giving in some manner the most attractive appearance possible 

 to the product of his dairy, and by establishing as soon as possible, 

 a reputation for his own packages. 



Butter for immediate use is often sent, to even distant markets 

 which are within easy reach, in what is called a cooler-tub. 

 This t;ub, the hinged top of which may be firmly secured by the 

 locking of a bar which passes over it, is entirely filled by a tin 

 vessel of which each end is cut ofF with tin partitions, leaving 

 spaces in which to place pounded ice. The center space is occu- 

 pied by thin, wooden platforms, laid upon projections on the side 

 of the tin vessel, which serve to separate the layers of prints or 

 balls, and prevent their being bruised. The tub is usually made 

 of sufficient size to hold sixty pounds of butter. In using a tub 



