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a certain amount of butter each week if the ocean lines would 

 give them the service. That was done, but they never could 

 get any great amount; I think ten thousand tubs was the 

 largest amount ever taken in the refrigerators. Later on, 

 T\'hen the weather is such that they can carry butter outside, it 

 is an easier matter to get butter out of the country and during 

 the winter months our exports have run up as high as 15,000 

 tubs in a single week. Our exports up to the middle of this 

 month, from New York from the first of May, were 298,000, 

 against 160,000 tubs for the same time the year before, almost 

 double. . 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Schammel: To what countries do our butters go 

 chiefly? 



Mr. Knight: The only demand we have for fine butter 

 is from England; very little goes any other place — the United 

 Kingdom I should say. It goes into Liverpool, Manchester 

 and London. The low^er grades, such as ladles and imitations, 

 will go to Hamburg and Copenhagen. This matter of export- 

 ing butter to Copenhagen is interesting. The Danes sell their 

 butter at prices, I believe, something like 27 cents last year 

 in Copenhagen; then they buy poor butter from us at 12 to 

 15 cents, and work it over for home consumption. They also 

 use sixteen million pounds of butterine and oleomargarine. I 

 understand. 



Mr. Monrad: Take our Northwestern country. What 

 would be the most advisable wood in the way of boxes for 

 them to use? 



Mr. Knight: As far as I know the only success they have 

 made with wood was white wood; either white or yellow 

 poplar. We have had a great many packages brought up to 

 the Chicago butter trade for examination made of other w^oods. 

 For instance, ash — one manufacturer made some very nice 

 things in ash, but it would not do at all, because the box is 

 not practically an imitation of the Australian box and they 

 want it as near like the Australian box as can be gotten. 



