BUTTER NINE MONTHS OLD

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12534, 22 April 1935, Page 2

BUTTER NINE MONTHS OLD

EXPERIMENT THAT WILL INTEREST DAIRY FARMERS. The other evening a “Alanawatu Times*’ reporter had the privilege of spreading his bread with butter that had travelled 18,000 miles and more to reach his tea-table. It was portion of two half-hundredweight packages that were made up in July of last year, shipped to England and then sent back to New Zealand again in order that the manufacturers might be satisfied as to its keeping qualities. And there is no shadow of doubt as to the freshness when opened up in Palmerston North nine months after it had 1 been made without the use ofanything in the way of preservatives. The secret of this accomplishment which is an important one as far as the dairying industry is concerned, lies in the process of packing, the butter!jurying been exported in vacuum containers. A further quality possessed by this particular butter was the ease with which it could he spread despite the fact that it had been held in a freezing chamber. The returns from 2700 boxes of-vacuum-packed butter shipped to London during the season, showed an additional net profit over ordinary Nev Zealand bulk buttery of £lO 11s per ton in /London.' 'The' experimentjust completed will give the industry, sbmething to tiiink about.