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a little greenish put in the other barrel. You could eat from 

 either barrel with your eyes shut and not tell which barrel 

 the apple came from, and we sell them readily at 75 cents 

 more. Now, to come down to the paper. You take a cloth on 

 top of the tub — we could have shown you yesterday — the cloth 

 is wet, you know, and sometimes it will perforate the top of 

 the butter so that when you lift the top of the cloth up, you 

 can see the whole imprint of the lid on the top of the butter. 

 I never have seen that where I used parchment paper. That, 

 of course, does no harm; the butter tastes just as good; at the 

 same time it does not look quite so well as when it is smooth, 

 and round the sides and bottoms I think it is a good thing to 

 have, because it might keep away mould and I should use 

 parchment paper if I was going to put up butter. 



Mr. Hostetter: How about parafining? Would you use 

 both? 



Mr. Patch: No; parchment paper is enough. 



Mr. Hostetter: Would you soak your tub if you were 

 going to use parchment paper? 



Mr. Patch : I am, individually, rather inclined to soak the 

 tub at all times. 



Mr. Artman: Do you prefer the cloth without the paper 

 cap or both? 



Mr. Patch: I think the paper is sufficient. 



Mr. Artman: Have you ever had any trouble with blue 

 mould getting under it when you just used the paper? 



Mr. Patch : There may be something come up. My own 

 firm are rather going towards parchment paper. I want to 

 say that Bro. Linn's talk about Boston insisting on spruce tubs 

 is not quite right. That is all done away with. If five cream- 

 erymen here would say they would ship their butter for ten 

 months, I would not ask them to put it in spruce tubs. We 

 had butter sent up last year from several creameries and we 

 had several letters inquiring, "How much more can you get 

 us in spruce tubs? We can produce them just as easily,'' 

 and every time our answer went on, "Keep on as you are, we 

 can sell it just as easily." I think every man in Boston would 

 say he did not care which it was in. Of course we have always 

 have had spruce tubs from Northern New York and Vermont, 



