THIS NEW DEPARTURE IN BUTTER MAKING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8065, 5 October 1887, Page 6

THIS NEW DEPARTURE IN BUTTER MAKING.

Thjc Freezing Company'# creamery scheme has at lust secured the confidence of the country people generally. For months past the settlers have looked with suspicion upon the company's proposals, but the approach of spring time and the unpromising look out for butter produced by the old method has brought about a change of feeling. Oar YVaikato correspondent informs as of the progress being made there. The neoessary guarantee of milk has been completed in Hamilton, and a few days hence the factory at that place will, under the management of the Freezing Company, be once again in full operation. It now appears that the dairying centres of Ngaruawahia—which commands the Waipa Fiats, Hamilton, and Paterangi— in the hands of the company, and there is every promise of the milk pro* duced in these rich districts being turned into choice butter. Pu&ekohe, Tuakau, and Waiuku, places hitherto celebrated for dairying, are also to give their supplies into the same hands ; and when it i* remembered that each of these places are able to raise two or three thousand gallons of milk per day, the extent; of the production of butter may be estimated. In view of the advantages of the system adopted by the Freezing Company, and the command which their operations will almost certainly give them of all available markets, to the comparative exclusion of butter of inferior makers, the places mentioned are to be congratulated on the J terms they have made. Butter of the new make will be' on the tables of citizens in the course of a fortnight or three weeks. The butter department is making all possible speed with its alterations to adapt the premises which it occupies to the new business. The abundant rains which have fallen in Australia for some time past have apparently had the effect of closing that market to the Auckland butter producers. In former years Auckland supplied a large quantity of butter to the Sydney market, but with abundant rains, the people of New South Wales are producing not only sufficient for their own wants this season, but appear to be seeking an outlet for their surplus in the London market. This may be seen by the following paragraph from the Sydney Morning Herald of the 29th September :—" By the s,s. Orizaba, whioh left port on Tuesday last, the Mouth Coast and tVeat Camden - Co • operative Company (Limited) have despatched 56 boxes of factory butter. This company is essentially a farmers' institution, sad are agents for the whole of the butter factories of JNew South Wales. The butter has been specially selected for the English market, and is without doubt the best that the colony can produce, The Orient Steam Shipping Company are taking every care that the storage during the voyage will insure the arrival of the butter in a first-class condition, and, in conjunction with the South Coast and West Camden Company's London agents will place this (the trial shipment) in a prominent position in the market, where it will receive the best attention of the London buyers.