HOW BRITAIN EATS BUTTER.
.; ; , .1000 TONS' A MY/ ;/■ ]'■"'■'■. \ ' Messrs. Dowdall Brothers, in a recent issue of their". "Butter Review," ! state that tho home of. Great Britain', is. estimated ?X : 87,000 .tons anhiially,: vi'hile foreign amV colonial supplies; ncrording to tho Board of/Trade returns, figured for 219,277.t0n5, up'to' Juno last. : -Britain's' total consump-' ■of -, Trade '.returns, figured, at 219,277 '■ tone butter-fat, daily .excluding Sundays. To this must>be -added,aboutt 1500 tonV weekly of that,iriMoh-inaligned substitute, margarine. From Ireland -the receit>ts'. of butter in England are .valued between- £5,000,000 and £6,000,000- sterling per arinumj ' while tho total foreign 'and colonial imports arc valued 1 at over £22,000,000■ sterling. t ■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 199, 16 May 1908, Page 3
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