People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — Should Butter Be Washed. [ARTICLE]

Should Butter Be Washed.

| Abr.'i-ican Culli valor. I The Dairy, an English journal, I is now engaged in dicussing the a 1 vantages of washed or uni washed butter. There is little j doubt that 100 much washing inj jures the flavor, and the Danish butter makers, whose products ■ controls the English market, get I ail the buttermilk from the butI ter by repeated pressure. It rejqu’res much work, while getting I rid of the buttermilk by washing is comparatively an easy matter. One of the best butter makers we ever knew made butter that would keep unchanged through the year, and she never used water. It was her oft expressed belief that the practice of wash- : ing was due to unwillingness to i perform the work that other j ways of ridding butter of its i milk required- In this country I there are a few now who do not wash butter. Most of them consider it essential in flitting it for long keeping. The contrary opinion by many English dairymen will perhaps sei. our own butter makers to thinking.