BIG BUTTER SCRAPE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3438, 3 March 1932, Page 2

BIG BUTTER SCRAPE.

The Russian steamer Alexei Rykoff unloaded at London Bride on November 10 the biggest winter cargo of butter ever landed in Great Britain by the Soviet. She carried no fewer that 18,740 barrels, which will be thrown on the British market and sold regardless of price, just as the the first consignments of the new season's butter from the Empire are due to arrive (says an Irish paper). The getting together of this huge November cargo is the result of a determined "scrape" throughout the dairying districts of Soviet Russia to fulfil the butter exporting "plan" for 1931. At the beginning of the season it was forecast that Russia would attempt to send approximately 18,000 to 20,000 tons of butter this season, valued at the time at nearly £2,000,000. Owing to the public outcry against these importations, the influx was checked throughout the summer and price considerably diminished, but the spurt made by the Soviet during the autumn months will bring the total of Russian imports perilously close to the ambitious figure set out at the beginning of the season.