How Uruguay Butter Is Made.
ONE of the curious customs is the manufacture of butter. The dairyman pours the milk, while still warm, into an inflated pig skin or goat skin, hitches it to his saddle by a long lasso, and gallops five or six miles into town with the milk sack pounding along on the road behind him. When he reaches town his churning is over, the butter is made, and he peddles it from door to door, dipping out with a long wooden spoon the quantity desired by each family. Though all sorts of modern agricultural machinery are used on the farms of Uruguay, no amount of persuasion can induce the natives to adopt the wooden churn. Some of the foreigners use them, but the butter is said to be not so good as that made in this curious, primitive fashion. Fresh milk is sold by driving cows from door to door along the principal streets and milking them into the jars brought out by the customers.—Cor. Inter-Ocean.