The Irish Butter Trade.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 30, 4 August 1897, Page 2

The Irish Butter Trade.

0 A deputation of gentlemen interested 1 in the Irish butter trade recently waited upon Mr Gerald Balfour, chief 1 secretary for Ireland, and urged upon him the necessity for giving effect to the recommendations of the Food Adulteration Committee; to appoint a Board of Refer--1 ence in connection with the butter trade > and for securing upon that Board representation on behalf to the Irish producer and trader; also to fix the standard of the percentage of water allowed to salt butter ; to prohibit the sale of margarine 1 as butter and the mixing of margarine ; and butter which sold as pure butter. It was pointed out that of the £14,750,000 i worth of butter imported into England and Scotland last year, Ireland's portion was one half. The cause of tho importa--1 tion of Danish butter was that the Danes 1 by law prevented raising. In France it 1 was the same. The adulteration, it was said, was not by the farmer but by the factories, where a great deal went on. Mr Balfour replied that much, if not all, that bad been asked for would be given effect to in the Bill that the Government were bringing in.