Butter- Workers.-The common wooden bowl and ladle are still in use in small dairies for working butter, and are undoubtedly the best for the manufacture of butter on a small scale. For an extensive manufacture, though, other devices become more economical.

An improved butter-worker is shown in Fig. 963. It consists of an ordinary butter-bowl attached to a stand, on which it is free to revolve. A ladle is attached to a lever over the bowl in such a manner that it can be worked up and down, from one side of the bowl to the other, and, in fact, in all directions. "



Reid's butter-worker " is shown in Fig. 964. It consists of a tray and a roller with paddles, which is turned by a crank, and traverses from end to end of the tray. The roller can be readily removed when desired, which leaves a table to weigh and print off of.

Butter Packages.-Butter is peeled in firkins, in half firkins, in kegs, and in pails. The best firkins and kegs are made of white oak, heavily hooped, and the sides neatlv turned.

An improved form of butter-tub and cooler is shown in Fig. 965. It 'is made of white cedar, and bound with galvanized iron or brass hoops. Within the tub is fitted a tin cooler, having a movable chamber for ice at each end. On the tin is constructed a series of ledges, on which rest the shelves for supporting the butter (print butter) ; it is used without shelves for roll butter.

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