BETRAYED THE SMOKER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 50, 16 December 1893, Page 527

BETRAYED THE SMOKER.

EvEltY dairyman knows, or should know, how extremely sensitive are milk and cream to all smells in the atmosphere. The slightest bad odour is sure to be taken up and reported. In the last Annual report of the <lntario Agricultural and Experimental I niou is an interesting story beating upon this point. There were two brothers, both extensive butter-makers and exporters ; one was an habitual smoker, while the other did not use tobacco in any form. They both sold their butter through an agent on a foreign market, and the one who did not smoke always received a higher price for his butter than the other. Not being able in any other way to find out why this distinction should be made, they at last resolved upon the experiment of reversing the labels on the packages. In due time a letter was received from the agent stating the strange fact of a very disagreeable taste or flavour in the butter belonging to the one brother, a taste which had never been known before; while the others, always with a bad taste before, was now pure and sweet, and worth two and one half cents more than his brother's on that account. The brothers were now convinced that it was the odour of the tobacco which had invaded the butter and injured its value.