Watch butter being made at the trade show

By Karen Donato
Staff Writer
    The Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum volunteers will be at this weekend’s trade show demonstrating the art of making butter.     Using fresh Houlton Farms Dairy cream, they will be offering the sweet cream butter samples for visitors at the trade show. They will be using the old fashioned churns, so everyone can see the procedure. Be ready to be patient, as it is a slow process.
    Volunteers demonstrated butter making at the Northern Maine Fair in Presque Isle last summer and received a lot of interest in the process.
A VARIETY – A variety of butter churns will be on display at the Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum booth at the Southern Aroostook Trade Show this weekend a tthe Millar Civic Center.
    The museum organization will also have tickets for sale for their spring raffle, a John Deere riding lawnmower. The tickets are $10 each and if all tickets have been sold the winner will be drawn at the museum’s next public supper, May 2.
    This riding lawnmower is a 2009 model X-300 and is a heavy-duty machine that the winner can add a snow-blower or other attachments on to.
    The museum will be open for tours on May 2, from noon through the supper and beginning June 6, open each Thursday through Saturday from 1-4 p.m.  or by appointment.
    The museum is 10 miles north of Houlton on U.S. Highway 1 in Littleton.