CHAPTER XIV 



RENOVATED AND LADLED BUTTER 



The purpose of renovating or re-making butter, and 

 of ladling or re-working it, is to make the goods more 

 uniform in every particular and to improve the quality 

 as much as possible. 



171. Source of raw material. — Dairy butter is largely 

 the raw material from which renovated and ladled prod- 

 ucts are made. Occasionally poor creamery butter is 

 bought for this purpose. This dairy butter is usually 

 obtained from country stores where the farmer has 

 traded it in exchange for groceries. The practice of the 

 grocers is to sell at retail the better grades, and to ship 

 the poorer ones in salt or sugar barrels to a renovating or a 

 ladling factory. This product is often transported long 

 distances, sometimes over two thousan,d miles. 



172. Renovating and ladling plants. — A few years ago 

 there were about thirty-five butter renovating factories and 

 many ladling plants in the United States. At present 

 there are fewer plants for the manufacture of this product. 

 It is easier and more profitable now for the farmers to 

 market their cream to a creamery, than to make butter 

 and sell it at a lower price than can be obtained for the 

 milk-fat in the cream. The advent of the modern hand 

 cream separator has been the main factor in the decrease 

 in the amount of renovated and ladled butter. 



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