N.Z. CHEESE AND BUTTER.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 958, 7 April 1888, Page 3

N.Z. CHEESE AND BUTTER.

As considerable atcention is bsing paid by farmers to the subject of the export of butter and cheese to the English market, the following extracts from a circular received by ua from Messrs Cruickshank and Lovell, dairy produce salesmen, London, should prove of general interest. They say, inter alia: —

We are now doing a considerable business in N.Z. aud Australian cheese and butter, and we think if shippers would give the attention necessary to these articles a large and profitable wou'.d result. Only fines' butter, shipped in refrig-rators and in good con iit ion when put on baari, can piy ihe seulera, as any bu ter outside refrigerators arrives in this country in such condition that it. is quite unfit for table use and can only b? sol'! a* grease butter. Tiie best package for this mark tis ofilbs., and in any case should not fxceet 112!bs. Th • trttnpar.iture in co'd storage, en voyage, should n:>t be above 56 de»reea n.>r so low as fieez ng point. This applies to bath clieese anti butter. If froz-n, botii the bu:ter and cheese los# their texture, and the cheese becomes so crumbly that finest goods when shipped arrive here to bo »old as second iry qualities. We are sal isfie I there is a big lulure for N.Z oheesus, and they wi:l yet ge : a preference to the bu k of the American cheeses that are sold oo this mark-it, as their keeping qiulities are more on a par with Ounidian and our own Cliedd <r cheese. W.< think it would be fir more advantageous 10 senders and buyers if cheo*e wore shipped not so matured, as they ripen quickly on the voyage, ani in onsequence show flivor. The highest pric3 can always be ob:ained lor uiild, close-cutting Cluddarg. H iving sold over 3000 ions of American and Canadian cheese, also 1-trge consignments of Colonial and Continental bu'.ter during the past season, we cin dispose to ad van age all consignments sent to our care, and shall be pleased to recsivo direct, or through merchants in London with whom you may have connections.

The best N.Z. battsr has com"? in equire boxes and was really fine, s-Uinj at 112 i p*r cwt. Australian and .New Ze -land, in casks, selling at 70s to 103s, New Z-aland cheese selling at 40s to 58s, accordiug to qualiiy. D miah butter, to-day, 112s; American and Canadian chease, 50*, 5%\ 5S< aud 60s.