NEW SOUTH WALES BUTTER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 30 December 1925, Page 5

NEW SOUTH WALES BUTTER.

IMPROVEMENT IN QUALITY. GOOD PROSPECTS FOR SEASON. The senior New South Wales State grader, Mr. A. M. Brown, reporting to the dairy branch of the Department of Agriculture, states that generally speaking the quality of New South Wales factory butter at present being .placed on tlie local market is- excellent. This also applies to .the flavour, texture, and general condition. It would seem, li© adds, that two principal factors, have combined to bring about this result. The muchneeded bountiful rains which have recently fallen throughout the dairying districts o-i" New South Wales have greatly improved the pastures and water supply, and thus supplied the first essential in the production of a high-clues butter. Then, again, a number of factories have .previously been unable to cope efficiently with even normal cream supplies, owing to inefficient .power, plant, and defective premises, surroundings, water supply, etc. The majority of -the most .backward of these facories, however, hah now ibeen brought up to the high standard required under the Dairy Industry Act, and others have added to their power and plants. There is,- however, still a minority of factories not yet up to standard, and the butter produced by these continues to -show definite inferiority on this 'account. Steps have already been taken to uplift as quickly as possible the quality of these few cases. Air. Brown concludes: “With the continuance of the present conditions regarding season ana the better equipment of those factories which were deficient, it is reasonable to be optimistic in assuming that this -season will be one of the best from a quality point of view, taking the manufacture of butter in the State as a whole. Last year 82 per cent, of the output of registered butter faeorties was of choicest quality. It is confidently expected -that- this high standard will be found to be considerably exceeded when the figures are compiled at the end of the official year, June 30, 1926.”