Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1918 — A PAT OF BUTTER. [ARTICLE]

A PAT OF BUTTER.

One pat or serving of butter is a little thing—there are about 64 of them in a pound. In many households the butter left on the plates probably would equal one pat or 1-4 of an ounce dailyscraped off into the garbage pail or washed off in the dish pan. But if every one of our 20,000,000 householders should waste 1-4 of an ounce of butter daily, on the average, it would mean 312,500 pounds a day—--114,062,500 pounds a year. To make this butter would take 265,261,560 gallons of milk—or the product of over half a million cows. But, butter isn’t eaten or wasted in every home, some one objects. Very well. Say only one in 100 homes wastes a pat of butter a day—over 1,000,000 pounds wasted. Still intolerable when butter is so valuable a food and every bit of butter left on a plate is so useful in cookery. The U. : S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., or your State Agricultural college will tell you how to use every bit of butter in cookery.