The Butter Industry.

Evening Star, Issue 7326, 26 September 1887, Page 4

The Butter Industry.

In a letter to the ' Post,' Mr F. A. Krull makes tin- following remarks oa the butter industry:—"! have tried during many many years to introduce our butter successfully into the London market, but not ono shipment lms arrived in good condition. I have had the Uegs packed in cases surrounded with salt, and have shipped colonial dairies of repute in the freezing chamber, all to no purpose; the butter never arrived in condition, and was sold as grease. And yet, what a market would it open if we only could succeed in shipping our butter in December and February, so as to reach the London market during the late winter months, when butter is at its highest! The reason why we fail is now, to my mind, very simple—our butter will not keep. In Mecklenburg, in Holstein, in Normandy, I have had occasion to see many butter factories. All are under the ground in brick cellars. The temperature is of even coolness, and never allowed to rise, and to this I Lttribute the whole success. Many old colonists will remember that we used to import occasionally the Cork Rose butter; and how well it stood the voyage by ordinary sailing and in what good condition it arrived. lam ignorant how the Irish produpe their butter; but there ought to be plenty of people in this Colony who should know, and I have no doubt they will testify also that it is made in cellars at an even cool temperature. If dairy factories paid attention to this, instead of all producing cheese, I am satisfied it would be a success; but our present wooden buildings, covered with galvanised iron, are utterly unfit for making good keeping butter. It needs large airy cellars with double doors, to prevent the heat entering, and an even cool temperature throughout. The butter made there will be found to be of unvarying good quality and firm in condition, and would readily realise in London Is per lb, if not over-salted. I don't know of a single shipment of New Zealand butter that has reached the Home market in prime condition, nor do I know of any tinned New Zealand butter that has proved successful."