BUTTER BOX TIMBERS
AUSTRALIAN EXPERIMENTS
SYDNEY, July 14. Trials with hemlock and hoop-pine timbers for butter-boxes, carried out under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture, here proved most successful. The official report on the subject says that the butter experimented (with was packed under departmental inspection at Wingham factory, since when it has been in cold storage for two months. The report deals with the method of treating the boxes with casein and formalin sprays, after which they were lined with triple-foil aluminium, parchment, and cardboard. The chief conclusion arrived at by the examiners was that the surface of all butter so packed was free from wood taint except where wet papering was resorted to and that there was very definite evidence of the value of triple-foil parchment in preventing both surface taint and deepening- of the surface colour of the butter.
It was emphasised that dry papering gave the best results, while proper selection of timber was as essential as satisfactory spraying.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 13, 15 July 1937, Page 9
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