With fine butter ranging in price from 30c per pound at the lowest to 60c and even to 75c at times, there is no protection against loss on every meal served except in serving the butter in individual allowances in small butter chips. The neat way of doing this is to make the butter in individual prints, using for the purpose a butter stamp precisely like the pound size in common use by the farmers only these hold but 1/2 ounce. They are in general use in city restaurants. They are like toy butter stamps in size and are imported along with other wood carvings from Switzerland. To make the prints, dip the wooden stamp in hot water, press in the tablespoonful of butter that fills it, and push it out with the moveable inside.

A person at table who has not enough butter will call for more but such requests are not very frequent, and the plan effectually prevents the eating of slices of high-priced butter and slices of bread in equal proportions. Fine creamry butter at 48c per pound is 3c an ounce. We calculate at 2 or 3c per order.