OUR BUTTER IN ENGLAND.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1109, 24 April 1911, Page 8

OUR BUTTER IN ENGLAND.

A LIVERPOOL LECTUKE. • In the course of a lecture on "New Zealand: JtS:Scenery andiF.roducts," delivered in Liverpool by Mr. G. H. Buckeridge, from New Zealand, the lecturer gave a lantern .slide trip through. New Zealand ' from north to south, showing the scenery and various phases of agricultural life, says "The Grocer." The paper- proceeds: "He. then illustrated and described the dairying industry and butter and cheese in'process of manufacture. He remarked that Now' Zealand butter did- not seem to' be understood in this country, the consumer, in the north, particularly, objecting to it on the ground of its high colour. ■ Mr. Buokeridgo emphasised the fact that this was.the natural colour, and that it was not possible to introduce anything to lessen the colour without lessening the quality also. The colour was due to the luxuriant growth of the food, irhl.ch produced a higher percentage of fat, and affected the cream,and. tho butter. L'urthermore, the use of colouring 'matter for export was forbidden by law. . . . New Zealand was supplying a compiirativcjy cheap and first-class article at the season of the year when Irish and Continental butters were not at their best because they were then made from the cream of fodder-fed cows. . The lecturer appealed to grocers to help the colonial trade .by pushing: New Zealand butter, •and ho invited the public to help also by asking for the butter, assuring them that they, would mid it a better as well as a •cheaper article than many of tho butters they had hitherto used."