Water and Butter.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 191, 20 August 1901, Page 2

Water and Butter.

(To the Editor of the Times,) Sn«, —The following clipping will interest your readers as an explanation of a rcc-ent cablegram Mr 11. W. Lucy, writing in the Sydney Herald, says ; “ An ingenious German chemist has invented a process whereby water can be impressed into the butter-tub, with the result of considerably adding to the weight of its contents without altering their appearance. Not only l'a foreign butter thus treated imported in tons, and sold at full price to the unsuspecting consumer, but machines that will enable the local dealer appreciably to add to the weight of his butter are imported, and find a ready market. . Assuming that the is clean, there is no damaging effect on public health, I]ik obviously, if the head of a household wants to buy water, he or she can obtain it at a much less pric-e per .avoirdupois pound than is demanded for butter. The difficulty is that the statute Book does not contain any standard for pure butter that would meet this ingenious fraud, the earliest. product of the twentieth century.”—l am, etc.. DAIRYM.Vk,