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but we have gotten out of that habit. At Owottanna there 

 was a gentleman that brought butter from California. His 

 highest butter score was 95^. I don't know how low the 

 lowest was. That man came here with the impression that 

 he was going to take the prize, because he came here with 

 grass butter, and he was surprised to see the flavor and quality 

 of butter that could be produced in this country on dried grass 

 as comjjared with what he made on fresh grass. So much for 

 Illinois. 



Mr. Judd: Is the square package coming into favor? 



Mr. Patch: Well, if you are going to cater to the Eng- 

 lish market I should say, yes. We don't know how much our 

 markets here — and that means New York, Philadelphia and 

 Boston — may be overloaded and how much we may have to 

 depend on the export trade. If your butter were in the square 

 boxes, it would always be ready to export and to sell at per- 

 haps a little higher price than if in tubs. I notice our ex- 

 porters in buying samples, they say, we will give you a half a 

 cent more or a cent more if you will have it packed in square 

 boxes. As we enlarge in our make of butter it would seem 

 as if we should be prepared to place our butter in any market, 

 and perhaps we Eastern people can accommodate ourselves to 

 handling it in square boxes for the sake of being prepared to 

 sell to foreign markets. That would be the only advantage. 



Mr. Judd: What wood could be used to make those 

 square boxes? 



Mr. Patch: That never had occurred to me. 



Mr. Judd: They are making them out of the same wood 

 as butter tubs. 



Mr. Knight: No; ash boxes won't go. 



OUR BUTTER EXPORTS. 



CHARLES Y. KNIGHT, EDITOR CHICAGO PRODUCE, CHICAGO. 



I shall go very briefly over a few points in connection with 

 this subject. We have been very much interested in the ex- 

 port butter business this last year, because we thought we 



