296 BUTTER-MAKING. 
“ Packages. 
“Must be sound, with full number of hoops covers tight, 
and properly fastened, or made so at the seller’s expense, 
unless otherwise stipulated at the time of sale.” 
Export Butter. 
The observations of the authors have been that the reputa- 
tion of the American butter is not all that is desirable on the 
Fic. 172.—Shipping Russian butter from Siberia. (U.S. Govt. Bul.) 
English market. Some American butter is good enough to 
sell on an equality with Danish butter, and in some instances 
it is palmed off for such. Much poor butter, however, has been 
allowed to go onto the English market, and this has in some 
measure ruined the reputation of our butter. 
Butter for export purposes should be of the very best, and 
made in such a way as to insure good keeping qualities. 
The standing of the different kinds of butter, as observed 
on the English market, were as follows: 
