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the air tends to injure the quality of the butter. If the 

 butter is intended for immediate use it should neverthe- 

 less be as carefully packed as if for a year's keeping-. The 

 fancy ways of putting up butter in cakes is not advisable 

 unless they are immediately wrapped in paraffine paper, 

 lacked in a tight box and shipped at once. For family 

 use we prefer a small pail holding five pounds, made 

 of sprace or maple veneer, and supplied with a cover and 

 a wire handle (figure 55, a). This is very convenieut 

 and cheap. The pails are coated inside with paraflQne, 

 which makes them air tight, and when closely packed 

 with butter and pressed smoothly on the top a sheet of 

 paraffine paper is carefully spread and turned over the 



Fi^. 55.— .4, VEN-EEE PAIL, "holding five pounds; B, yexeer box, 

 holding five pounds ; C, -w^elsh pail, holding twenty pounds. 



edge and the cover is put on over it. The pail is then 

 wrapped in strong paper and tied with twine, a paste- 

 board ticket with the address being tied to it. We have 

 been in the habit of pasting a printed paper over the 

 cover for the purpose of a business card and to further 

 r^rotect the butter from the air. Another very useful 

 package is a five-pound box made of the same material. 

 It is shown at h, in figure 55. For the regular trade we 

 prefer the Welsh pail (c), holding twenty pounds, and 

 made of spruce. Tliis pail has a tight cover and costs 

 less than a cent a pound for the butter in it. As this 

 pail will generally sell the butter at considerably more 

 than the usual price, it is easily afforded. All packages 

 should be free. A returned butter pail is not a sweet 



