BUTTER.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 287, 8 June 1909, Page 3

BUTTER.

OPINIONS. OF NEW ZEALAND ARTICLE. A correspondent of The Grocer, writing under date March 25, stated • that "considering the wonderful value of fresli landed New Zealand salt and saltless butter it was small wonder that trade for Danish butter was so -dull. Grocers who thought it poliqy to push Danish at Is 2d or Is 3d instead of New Zealand at Is Id and. Is 2d must be few in number. Fresh-landed New Zealand was certainly as good if not better than win-tor-made Danish. Tho Russian railway authorities give the quantity of Siberian butter transported westward in 1908 as 3,310,229 poods (361 b), as against 3,413,640 poods in 1907 and 2,897,776 poods in 1906. The decrease last year is accounted for by tho scarcity of food for cattle in the beginning of 1908, which caused extensive sales of live stock. Small quantities of Siberian butter are sent to tho Far East, and not all the Siberian butter sent westward is exporv>d, there being an increasing sale for it in the towns of Russia pro-

per. Shipments of butter from the ports of Riga Windau, St. Petersburg, Reval, and Lihau in 1908 were some 13 per cent, smaller than !ii 1907, being 2,939,508 and 3,395,93. pnnds respectively . In ihe course of si lecture at tin P..>lytp.c-Jiiii;\ Loivcl:)!'. ilv G. J ■Xit'holls, of George Bowles, Xieliclls. and Co., Ltd., condemned the practice olita'iiiiui-, in New Zealand anc! Australia of home separation aiuj sale of cream which often resulted "'r sour and evil-smelling cream in the hot weather. iae eulogised the Go 'vernment system of registration ant grading in New Zealand, and he recommended suppliers for their besi trade to work Irish butter directlj the new season's was ready, and keev on with that until the finest New Zealand new season's was ready. Bj those means they would be supplying the finest butters made a,t the different seasons of the year.