Comparison of Woods for Butter Boxes

by Grover Dean Turnbow

Fig. 2.—Typical 60-pound white fir boxes showing general run of this wood.

CONCLUSIONS

Cube Butter in Cold Storage

Boxes paraffined and parchment lined.—White fir and cottonwood can be used in place of spruce for storing butter in cubes, when properly seasoned, paraffined, and parchment lined.

Cottonwood is equal to spruce as a butter container. Butter stored in cottonwood boxes for six months had an average score of 0.048 of a point above spruce treated in the same manner.

Fig. 3.—Method of lining 60-pound boxes with paper.