INFERIOR DAIRY BUTTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9140, 23 August 1888, Page 3

INFERIOR DAIRY BUTTER.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —Your recent notices of the dairyfarming question and how it should be made to pay are singularly apropos just now. The demise of the Freezing Company's butter department is nothing short) of a public calamity, as the butter supplied by our so-called dairy-farmers, and retailed, mark you, at Is 6d per lb., or 20 per cent, more than the Freezing Company charged, is almost uneatable, being rank in smell, not washed clean, and as streaky as Barnett's celebrated breakfast bacon. As a natural consequence, it can be imagined the " pitiful whine that farming don't pay" is—and under the circumstances, as regards dairy-farming —a natural and justly deserved result. Our local butter-makers seem on the whole a. shiftless and miserably incapable crowd, and fully deserve all they complain about; but unfortunately the public have to Buffer, by being charged 20 to 50 per cent, more than a good article could be supplied for in a country like New Zealand. It would be a profitable speculation if the importation of Danish and Normandy butter were started, as it could be landed perfectly fresh from the cool chambers of the direcb steamers, and there can be little doubb the public would gladly pay for the luxury. Our dairy farmers conld then start growing flax, or fungus-picking, or some other more congenial and suitable occupation.—l am, &c-, A Grumbler.