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Show j Old Bnttcr. , ! It is a matter of wondcrmentto many what becomes of the tons upon tons of j dairy butter piled np year after year in 1 tho wholesale grocery stores and com-'mission com-'mission houses of our cities, and which : tho average American would not allow on his table. "The poorer the butter j the further it goes," said a large butter : dealer of this city, as he packed rolls and printa of various colors and sizes in a f.igar barrel lined with butter cloths. ! ''That expresses it in more ways than one. Good butter always finds a ready ' market here at home; it never goes beg-, beg-, ging for buyers at any time of the year, j but packing grade goes to the end of the ! earth. The contents of this barrel will 1 go to South America." j "Not just as it is?" I "No; it will undergo manipulation. ; The firm to whom this is to bo shipped melt down this grade of butter and pack I it in glass jars. Dy the time it reaches ; a South American port it is of about tho same consistency aa olive oil. Th? South ! Americans n?o it on their bread as we ' nso butter. A large proportion of packing pack-ing stock shipped from tho northwest goes ultimately to European countries." I North West Trade. |