WHEY BUTTER

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 51, 23 November 1917, Page 8

WHEY BUTTER

-MANUFACTURE AND® BRANDING. Regulations relating to tlio manufacture and branding of whey butter aro issued in.this week's Gazette. For the purpose of supplying to the Minister such statistics and information relating to such dairy as the Minister may request, every owner of a dairy is required to keep an accurate record of the number of pounds of—(a) milk-fat separated or recovered from whey; (b) milk-fat purchased in tho form of whe.v creta; (c) whey butter manufactured from such milk-fat separated or recovered from whey; and (d) milk-fat separated from milk, if any, which may have been added to preparo such whey .butter.

If any owner of a. dairy mixes cream or milk-fat recovered .from whey with cream or milk-fat separated from milk, for the purpose of manufacturing butter therewith, tho resulting product shall be branded "whey butter." All packages containing such buttor shall be branded "whey butter" in the manner herein provided—(a) In the case of whey butter packed in bulk, by having the aforesaid words clearly and indelibly impressed on the outside- of the package; and (b) in the case- of whoy butter put into pats or prints, by having the aforesnicl words printed ■oil a white ground in black letters of a size not less than onc-lialf of an inch in length. Provided that in each case the brand to bti used shall first be approved by the Department of Agriculture. Every person who commits any breach of these regulations is liable to a fine not exceeding £50-