The Size and Style of Package--Roll Butter--Packing ter-- Packing in Earthen Jars--Tin Packages--The Relative Cost of Wooden Packages--Ninepound Bale Boxes--To avoid "Woody Taste"--Parchment Paper--Excluding the Air--Print Butter-- Uniformity of Color--Top of Packages--Keeping Packed Butter Cold. THERMOMETERS IN THE DAIRY 52 Price of a Good Tested Article--The kind our Grandmothers' used--Floating Thermometers--Importance of their use. MAXIMS FOR A B C BUTTER-MAKERS 54 HOW TO MAKE GOOD BUTTER. A chapter by Mr. N. Bigalow 57 [Illustration] INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Frontispiece. Jersey Cow Matilda 4th. Milking Tube, 19 Milk Stool, 20 Milk Pail, 21 Haney Deep Setting Can, 23 Jersey Milk Can, 24 Shot Gun Deep Setting Can, 25 Cooley Can, 25 Conical Skimmer, 28 Branch of Annato Tree, 30 Rectangular Churn, 32 Pendulum Churn, 33 Bowl of Granular Butter, 34 Barrel Churn, 36 Danish Butter Worker, 38 Eureka Butter Worker, 39 Favorite Butter Worker, 41 Butter Salting Scale, 41 White Ash Butter Tub, 46 Ninepound Bale Boxes in Crate, 47 I X L Butter Printer, 49 Onepound Butter Mould, 50 Glass Dairy Thermometer, 52 PREFACE. I do not claim anything new or startling for this little work, nor do I claim to be what is usually termed "an authority" on the subject treated. A B C BUTTER MAKING is the result of my own experience in the dairy, together with an extended and careful observation of the experiences and practices of some of the most successful butter-makers in the country, and is an answer, in a complete form, to the numberless questions asked me (as Editor of the DAIRY WORLD), by beginners in the dairy. THE AUTHOR. MILKING.