OUTLETS FOR BUTTER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1280, 8 November 1911, Page 10

OUTLETS FOR BUTTER.

OBSERVATIONS OF GERMAN PAPER, After describing how colonial butter is now considered in England to bo almost as good as tho Home article, the ''BerMarkthallen Zeitung" of September 16 remarks that Germany also has con* an merest in this Australian and New Zealand butter. Tho writer also shows how, after much opposition, colonial butter has been introduced into the Italian market, and describes how an Italian expert examined a case of this so-called "interior foreign produce," and found it to bo good tasting and of very superior qualDuring the last few years the importing ot foreign butters into Germany has greatly developed. The' principal countries concerned in this trade for Germany aro Russia, with Siberia, Holland, ancl Denmark. Smaller quantities come from Austria-Hungary, Sweden and France. One would be inclined to think that Australasian and Canadian butter could be imported into Germany as well as butter from Siberia- Lately inquiries have been made in Berlin to s'oc if it would be profitable to introduce Australasian butter into tho German market. AVc shall have to wait to soe if these soundings and attempts to capture the Berlin market meet with success. "We have been informed that several parcels of Australasian butter have lately iound their way iiito the Berlin market. They atom to have given every satisfaction as regards quality, laste, appearance and texture, as nlso durability. Notwithstanding the long transport by ..set and across England the taste had not in the least deteriorated, and the butter w.as in ' the best state of preservation, altlioujh it was a parcel of unsalted butter, which had not been treated with boracic acid to prfH:rve it. "The importers soon recognised the success of their experiment, and the butter found a ready market at good prices. The possibility of bringing Australasian butter into the German market seems to have been proved by this experiment, and it remains to be seen if the German importers will take any further steps m this direction. During the last few days the representative of a well-known butter linn in London has been in Berlin in order to study the conditions of the Berlin market, to sound where business might be made, and to get into touch with those houses which might be inclined to take up the introduction of colonial butter. "The proposal has been carefully considered, anil our dealers are willing to receive a trial consignment, and upou the success or non-success of this they will know how to proceed. "We believe that this. cautious proposal will bs well i-e----ceived by our English friends. Naturally there is nothiug to be said against the imI>ortin£ of butter which [uliils the conditions laid down by the Imperial Government. We should, however, advise the German buyers to demand such guarantees that only such butter will be taken for importation. Brforo all things, they must insist that there fJiall be no preservative employed further than salt. The'selling of butter where there is boracic acid is punishable by fine in Germany, so that this will shut out tho possibility of importing boraxed butter."