BUTTER-MAKING. 



acknowledged system or method, and that the product of one 

 farm differs more or less from that of another. This diversity 

 of character in British butters is a difficulty with which our 

 merchants and large dealers, and indeed the retailers in many 

 towns and cities, prefer not to be troubled; and for this reason, 



FIG. 26. INSTANTANEOUS BUTTER MAKER (LAVAL). 



far more than for any other, they find it to their advantage to 

 deal in the foreign product. 



The statement that the climate and soil in the more favoured 

 parts of Ireland are capable of producing, and in some instances 

 actually do produce, the best possible butter better perhaps 

 than that of any other country admits of little or no doubt in 



