"A CHAT ABOUT BUTTER"

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 92, 21 April 1925, Page 6

"A CHAT ABOUT BUTTER"

PRAISE FOR NEW ZEALAND,

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DUNEDIN. This Day. In an article headed "A Chat About Butter," a writer in the New York "Produce Review and American Creamery" says : "A profit or loss is frequently determined by the way butter keeps*, and the way butter is made is a, large factor in how it keeps. I had a fine illustration of this the other day, when I_ called into a store to look at some New Zealand boxes which had been in a warehouse for fourteen months. It was part of a lot that arrived at New York on 21st February. Assuming that it was made early in" January, 1924. it is now considerably over a year old. This particular lot of 145 boxes was stored in a Jersey City warehouse on 16th April, 1924, and had never been disturbed. It was the famous 'Acorn' brand. The seller gave me the opportunity of examining the butter very carefully; and several good judges also made a critical examination. It showed wonderful quality, considering the length of lime it had been l:eld. Of course, the freshness bad gone, but there was uo trace of old flavour) and the body was simply perfect. The point that I want to emphasise is that it requires a well-made, heavy-bodied piece of butter to stand up as this lot did for over fourteen months. Perhaps one can profitably learn some tilings from our New Zealand friends."