Excerpt from Investigations in the Manufacture and Storage of Butter: Preventing Molds in Butter TubsT 0 illustrate this point, 24 tubs were divided into two lots of 12 tubs each. One lot was paraffined in the manner previously described, and the other lot was soaked overnight with cold water in the usual way. The tubs were weighed before filling and again after the butter was packed. The 12 paraffined tubs contained at this time 757 i pounds of butter and the 12 tubs soaked in water 7 66k pounds. These tubs were all filled from the same lot of butter, were held in the factory refrigerator three days, and were then shipped to the com mission house, where they were weighed on' the eighth day after packing. Each tub was weighed separately, and_the average weight of three empty tubs was taken as the tare. The weight of butter obtained in this way was for the paraffined tubs 756 pounds, a loss of 114 pounds, for the soaked tubs 759 pounds, a loss of H pounds. In other words, by the use of about 15 cents' worth of paraffin the price of 6 pounds of butter was saved. Inbutter held in storage for any length of time this saving would undoubtedly be much greater.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.