BUTTER PACKING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 73, 19 December 1907, Page 4

BUTTER PACKING.

CASKS BETTER THAN BOXES. fTlio-Leeds agent of tho Canadian Govcrn:mont gives, some interesting reasons why ftho_ North -England \people like to receive :thoiributter;'iiiy cask's :-rr . 'lOnv-the/alHimportant, question of pack--of tho opinion shipped to the ■Nortir6f' ! -iiiigla;'id; markets should bo sent in [casks; .■.. : dealer makes this, suggestion:— ''Bbx packing , has so long been : associated with, inferior butter in the North of. England-that Canada's prosont system of sending 'butter'to this country in boxes is simply 'ruining. her chances or making any decided impression on the largo imports of contineutal and otlier foreign buttora. In .fact,, it is .said, that for this ■ reason alone xVustralia's atliompts to compete in tho North of. 'Enghnd"-.. mai-kots' in box-packed :,buttdr... havo, nai... been, so successful .as- ox.peetod.,, : Tho",:reason is not far to seek: the North 'of. Eiglaiid is the stronghold of •tho',!Dariish,butSh-rtra(le. Two-third 3of all tho Danish buttor imported into Eilgland is received: from • special■ .butter steamers at Hull, Cioole, and Grims6y, and immediately on'being landed is distributed- by "fast express' trains on the different railroads 'to the'various centres. Tho 'Danish, butter,'.& the only brand of butter received in.. England , which is always good 'and' uniform -in.'-colour> and texture No biiKr;:'be' ; ho ; b"u,ying wholesale or retail, desires, to.. see or/to."ijampJe: Danish butter; the brand on the ca.sk is sufficient. Let the buyer'drop.into, the smallest grocery shop and buy' his;'pound of host Danish;, he .can depond : .upon Us quality without investigation; .' -:This butter, which is always riglit, and never rancid or off flavour, is known to everyone by... its'cask form. For these reasons, notbn^y , tho'shopkeepers but the public are prejudiced aga:nst box packing by jrpasoh.'. at -vtho that all inferior butters, and the lcgiims' --of butter mixtures'as well as margarine, are packed in boxes, and when they"' see"'butter on-" a' : shop qountor of a "Squarp on oblong shaf«, like a box, they run away with tho idea that tho buttor itself is jnferior,i or perhaps, 'margarine,' or next door to.it, . When,'the housewife enters tho store she ;'b "prejudiced right off against butter put up, in the shape of a box if it is standing sido-b;p-side against some more butler in the shaije of-a cask.' The former is something 'inferior in her opinion. This ia a very old ;prc-judicovin tho North of Eng!ancTj."bnt : if .'must not. bo supposed that this prejudice exists. , all over tho British Isles; in fact,, in the Scntr of England box-packed buttor is said to sell equally as well as caskpacked buttor. Canadian butter also would appeal, much, more to the public in the North of jEngland .if-it.. wero.. not so , 'highly coloured. . It should bo made as near approaching a very palo straw colour as pos'sible,,'a"nd 'should'npt be salted more than ono-half as , much as ill Canada."