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forced to do if we were eatiug it on bread or potato, and while 

 we, in our city, like butter a little saltier than most of the 

 others; we do not want it gritty. I think the color as a rule 

 was ahead of most anything I haye eyer seen; there was less 

 highly colored and less of the lighter colored. I think your 

 makers are all right on the color score. Of course, you will 

 find on your score cards a little yariation. I think that 

 coyers about all the points that a judge would be apt to look 

 at in scoring butter. 



A Member: What is imitation butter? We see it quoted 

 that way? 



Mr. Patch: You see imitation creamery, don't you? 

 There are two or three kinds ; in some parts of Iowa where the 

 creameries are yery thick there is some yery nice dairy butter 

 made, and there are some men who make a specialty of work- 

 ing oyer butter, what we used to call hash butter. Now, they 

 will buy this butter as made by the different farmers' wiyes 

 and it is an excellent grade, what we call fine dairy butter; 

 they bring it to their stores and it has not been salted; they 

 will pack it into tubs and salt it, and brand it "Imitation 

 Creamery," and it will grade yery fairly with good dairies. Of 

 course, you will see imitation creamery branded on circulars 

 that you receiye, that is made up of butter that is gathered 

 at the stores and the yery best is sorted out by these butter 

 workers and sent on, and that meets a yery ready sale. Then, 

 if you want further explanation, you can go farther away. 

 If you want to talk right plain, this gentleman at Owosso, 

 Michigan, with his new process of butter making is producing 

 an article that would come exactly under that head. He has 

 got a patent process; he buys a lot of store butter and melts 

 it, blows air through it, then cools it and works it with fresh 

 cream; I don't know exactly how, of course. It is quite a 

 process, and he makes a yery fine article I am told, but I haye 

 not seen any. But to answer your question directly, imitation 

 creamery that you see on sale is not imitation butter, it is 

 practically this unsalted butter that is made by what you 

 would call a fine dairy maker. 



