SCIENCE AND BUTTER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 1 May 1926, Page 3

SCIENCE AND BUTTER

GOOD WORK IN DENMARK Excellent work Ims keen accomplished by the Government Experimental Laboratory in Denmark, winch has been an important factor in developing the high standard of Danish butter. That tins bureau is continuing its efforts to uphold and to further improve the quality of Danish butter in orde rtiiat it may maintain its place in- foreign markets, is evident from a recent report of the activities of this laboratory during the year 1924, which stales as follows, according to The Baltic. Scandinavian Trade Review:—“Practically all the creameries of the country (1600), took part in the tests for quality during the year 1924. A total of 1352 of the 1600 were co-op-erative creameries. The co-operative creameries are also much the largest, and produce the best butter. The tests for the water content of the butter showed that practically all the butter comes within the limit of 16 per cent fixed by law for export butter. In regard to quality of the butter, the report states that 93.3 per cent of all the butter can with full justice be termed really first-class butter. This percentage is only of interest to foreign countries, however, in so far as it shows how rationally the butter production is conducted, as, of course, only first-class butter is exported. Altogether 308,644,0001b5. of butter were produced in 1924, 271,165,800 lbs of which were exported. The home consumption thus amounted to only 37,478,2001b5., or 12 per cent of the total production.”