PRACTICAL PAPERS—BUTTER FACTORIES. 
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which is fastened a metal socket for the reception of the lever 
used in working the butter. This socket works on a universal 
joint, so as to be moved in any direction. A plank with groove 
near the outer edges, is arranged below the circular slab to 
catch the buttermilk and moisture flowing from the butter 
during the process of working, and it is also slightly inclined, 
so that all slops pass, oft along the grooves and are deposited 
in a tub. By this arrangement, it will be seen the circular slab 
or bed of the butter worker can be moved backward or forward 
on the plane of its circle, while the universal joint to which 
the lever is attached, allows the lever to be handled in any 
direction. These butter workers are the most convenient of 
of the kind of any I have seen, and can be profitably introduced 
into some of our New York butter factories. 
Molding and Packing .—The butter is put up and sent to 
market in two forms—in barrels, half barrels, and in two pound 
rolls placed in packages. The barrels are of oak, nicely made 
and strongly hooped. They hold about two hundred and 
twenty-eight pounds of butter. The butter is packed solid, 
the cask headed, and brine as strong as it can be made is pour¬ 
ed in to fill up all the interstices. Butter going to market in 
this way brings from two to three cents less price per pound 
than that put up in rolls. The rolls are made three inches in 
diameter and nearly seven inches long. A mold is used for 
the purpose of forming the rolls, and it has two iron handles 
crossing each other on a pivot, and worked like a pair of nip¬ 
pers. The, molds being opened a bit of butter is nipped up 
sufficient, to fill the mold, and by pressing the two arms or 
handles together a powerful leverage is brought to bear upon 
the butter mold, compressing the butter into a solid roll. 
Then with a thin wooden knife, or paddle, the ragged points 
of butter which have been forced out on either end of the 
mold, are cut off even with the mold and smoothed down, 
and the instrument opened, when out drops a neat roll of but¬ 
ter, weighing just two pounds. The whole mass having been 
rapidly molded in this way, and the rolls dropped upon the 
