MARKETING BUTTER AND CHEESE 265 
fibre paper boxes lined with parchment and holding 2, 3, 
4, 5, and 10 pounds, and the wooden bail boxes holding 
from 5 to 10 pounds. Most of these packages are used 
for local trade. 
Foreign Trade Packages. For export trade butter is 
preferably packed in cubical spruce boxes lined with 
paraffin and holding 56 pounds. ‘These boxes are pre- 
pared by rinsing them with cold brine and then lining 
with parchment paper (double thickness at top and bot- 
tom) which has been soaked in brine. The boxes are 
now weighed and carefully packed, after which they are 
trimmed down to a weight of 57 pounds, which allows 
one pound for shrinkage. Finish the packing by placing 
a double thickness of parchment paper over the top and 
upon this oversaturated brine. 
Butter shipped to tropical countries is packed in tin 
cans which are hermetically sealed. 
Paraffining Butter Packages. During recent vears 
buttermakers and butter dealers have suffered consider- 
able losses from moldy. butter caused by the growth of 
mold on the liners and on the inside of the tubs. These 
losses can easily be avoided by resorting to the proper 
methods of destroying the mold. Rogers of the United 
States Department of Agriculture has shown that this 
trouble can be prevented with certainty by coating the 
inside of the tub with a layer of paraffin. He says: 
“With paraffining not only are the molds and their spores 
already on the tub prevented from growing but 
the wood is covered with a surface from which molds 
