BUTTER FACTORY. (See Creamery.) BUTTERFLY. Insects of the genus Papilia (Linn.) in the imago state. Many of them are butter it should be pressed entirely solid, in such forms of packages as will best enable this to be accomplished. Orange county tubs and barrels leave but little to be desired in this direction. They are easily cleaned, compact and quite water tight ; another form is also much used, and is much liked by grocers, since the butter may be easily turned out for cut ting up. If butter is to be.transported in summer it must never be allowed to become even partially ,soft. Hence, many de vices have been invented for accomplishing this purpose, one of which is, shown with a dead air apace at the side, the butter so arranged that it is carried in pound pats, perfectly cold. In large cities, so packed, it brings high prices, when branded with the name of well-known respectable produced from caterpillars most injurious to cul tivated plants and trees, as the gooseberry and „ hey cabbage butterflies; wnicu see. iney nave four
wings, imbricated with downy scales. The body is hairy; and the tongue convoluted in a spiral form. There are numerous species, now formed into a group, subdivided into tribes,, families and genera. The butterfly deposits its eggs, which hatch into caterpillars. These change to alides, which again, after undergoing bernation, come forth as the perfect butterfly. The food of the perfect insect is honey, only, but tharrnmin in the caterpillar state, con tains some most destructive insects to vegetation. The butterflies are among the post beautiful of the insect tribes. This, however, does not pre vent their larva; from also being, many of them, most destructive to vegetation, probably quite as much so as the larva; of moths—another beauti-' ful family, in their perfect state. Hence, they should be destroyed wherever found. The cut shows a, caterpillar; b, butterfly; c, d, sections of caterpillar enlarged.