PRESERVATIVE IN BUTTER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 211, 30 May 1908, Page 3

PRESERVATIVE IN BUTTER.

CONFLICTING viEWS. % SOME FORMER TESTS. " Butter .without 'preservative," said a woll known buyer to a Dominion representative, "becomes stale and flat in taste. But- : tor with preservative, on the contrary, opens .up in London in splendid order, and possesses a full amount of that delicious smell of good butter, which we .call boquet." Some factories havo got-top price for but- • ter without preservative ?_ " Quite likely.' There is occasionally to bo found a buyer who does not want what we—and the other buyers—would consider, ■ first-grade butter. His own taste, or j the taste of his particular circlo of customers, is for a butter with a 'stale flat flavour, and ho pays top price for it. But tho great majority of the buyers want a butter than we call : first-grade, and they would not tako tho other butter at all. Tho mere- fact that a stale butter sometimes fetches a good , price is a very risky criterion. The buyers who will take that" sort are very, very feWj but the buyers who want a butter that . opens upwith a good bouquet, such as boracio acid enables it to are very numerous.. If all our butter went Home without preservative, and .arrived with a stalo '.flat flavour, we 'should then get a .better-idea: of its value." 1 Former Tests. ■ *• ' Some tests. wero carried out in the export seaioni of 1906 by the manager of the Taieri and Peninsular Dairy Company, of Dunedin. The objcct was to ascertain the deterioration of flavour which occurred, in store with the use .of various preservatives, and also, without preservative. '>■ . The judges on June 8 were Messrs. Kin- , sella, : Singleton, Grant, and Sawer's. The' . following table v of: the . points awarded for flavour shows .the more rapid deterioration

These results' seem .to show that with the use of four--'of the preservatives there {was. only a small loss of flavour .indicated by a reduction, of from to 5} points; in the case of : one other ' an inforior one—there was a deterioration • of 8 points. Whore no preservative was ; used' the deterioration was 7] points. These : figures . seem to: show that: tho' uso of good preservative would-put the Taieri butter on the London market two months' old with a quality 5 points higher than that of butter with a bad preservative; and 4 points higher than butter without preservative at all. THE NEXT, PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE. WHERE WILL IT BE? PROBABLE DATE OF CENTRAL CONFERENCE. Those members of the Wellington Fanners' •. Union ■ who'till eastern slopes of the !.'• great Tararua':range aro beginning to feel l , that they are entitled to have the honour of. an annual conference on their side. The last/two' conferences have been held at Levin and'Feilding.' Eketahuna—the ambitious, pushful'Eketahuna—is eager, to bo . the. host of the next conferenco.vand iit- is- practically certain that its wish will,..bt;; gratified,-,.. The : president j: .in. an addressat .tho dinner .on .Wednesday .'evening,; referred, to ,tho question, arid .mentioned Eketahuna as the likely site for next, ; year's gathering! :,>Tho. confer-.' " ence of 1909 will not have the excitement of an election prospect into turmoil, but farmers—at least the New' Zealand'ones —can always find,-some vital questions to wrestle with.' Eketahuna, as the prospective sceno l of the'next great 7 gathering, will possess" a-new interest during tho'coming year. - r -\'. . ' Central Conferenca., - The date of the Central Conference of delegates from all parts of tho Dominion, to bo. hold shortly at Wellington, is not yet finally fixed. , : It is considered likely,, however,- to bo about July 3, in. which case tho notices' summoning the delegates will havo to be issued duriug the . next , few'days. THE TIMBER QUESTION. , A LOCAL VIEW. ' Speaking of the. demand for a: removal of the duty on Oregon pine, a gentleman who -has. interests in an area of- standing timber referred to some of. the points in favour of , the duty. 'T have," he said to a Dominion repre- ' sentativo, "had a large area of timber standing idle near-the route of the Main Trunk line for many years past, waiting for the line to bo , completed in order that I might get the timber away.; .'That time is now approaching,- but if. foreign timber.'should be now admitted free 1 shall bo unable to repay .the. losses-of tho long delay. Moreover, the: freight' is a ( serious matter. It costs about 4s: a' hundred-feet' in freight to bring the timber down by train from Taihape to Wellington, which is as much as it'.costs to :brinrj' timber from Vancouver . to Wellington." You want the freight reduced? " Yes. It is nearly all down hill, arid the carriage should not bo very expensivo." FARMERS' UNION CONFERENCE. DELEGATES PLEASED. ;. '■ •' We have been asked to contradict a statement which had. been made that the delegates to the Wellington Conference of the Farmers' Union at Fcilding wero not satisfied with their treatment. >Tho statement is, to everybody associated with the- Conference. bo obviously gratuitous that it, would' seoro scarcely worth;", contradicting. Messrs. Matheson and Moss, of • Eketahuna, stat< that they can voice tho sentiments of al the delegates from their side of the range when they say that they wero more thai pleased with f the cordial treatment they re- . ceived.. -ri; . .: _' ■ . The. hotel" accommodation, at Feildinf ranks among the best in tho Dominion, ant in that rpspect .arrangements for N the dele gates wmoimado with- ample foresight. Th< dinner' to,' which - tho local branches enter " tained the' delegates after the : Conferenci . was attended "by a "full, house," and' was characterised .by tho utmost enthusiasm Tho discussions were conducted with oeea Bional "flasties *of that outspokenness charac teristic of farmers, but there was nosug gestion-oL ill-feeling, and the task of tin . president, D Mr'. J. 6. Wilson, was eas; throughout. 1 MISBINC EGCS. GRADER CHARGED WITH THEFT. An Aii6kland. Press Association messag states that Henry Gadd, employed as grader and_ tester at tho Government poul ■\ry depot in that" city, was committed fo trial on a charge of tho theft of 150 doze: iggs. - AFTER iTHE BUSH FIRES. \ . ■ A Press Association message from Napie states that, in consenuenco of - bush lire during the summer, grass seed to the valu of about £1000 has been supplied on promis .'sory-notes "to CrownVtenants in tho Hawkc' Isay land district—practically all in the Wa paw'a County, 'where, in addition, aboil £3000: worth of grass seed has been sown o unoccupied Crown lands. MANAWATU NOTES. Our Palmerston correspondent statos th« n Drovers' Union will probably be formed i the Manawatu at an early, date. , Professor. Lowrie, of Lincoln College, i unable, through other engagements, to judg farr. njnto pncl -leds at the Winter .Show.

when preservative. was withheld:— . , ■ . : Judged Judged .Judged, Preservative. April 6; May 2. June 8. Sample 1 ... - 43 39 35 • Sample 2 ... v 43J 42 39 Sample 3 ... ■ 43J 42 40 ' , Sample 4 ... ' 42 ; 41 .38Sample 5 ... 43i 41J 38 s Salt only .43 .42:' :. 36