BUTTER AND CREAM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21763, 31 March 1934, Page 15

BUTTER AND CREAM

Sir, —May I be allowed space to winmend some words of Lady St. ClairErskine as reported by you recently.: Speaking at ,a luncheon arranged by the Overseas League, she said, " I think we are all frightfully disappointed when we come out here and do not find our jug of cream and big pats of butter (in the hotels) and suppose all of you have ifc m your homes." I am afraid 6he is wrong in this supposition, «f>. least as regards cream, and I am sure she is right when she goes on to say "If you used a little more butter forcooking .... and if you all bought a little more cream, I think farmers, would not notice quite so much th.it,. butter was not being used in England." As to the marketing of butter, tin* Dairy Board or some interested bodyshould be able to devise means to prevent anybody from mixing New Zealand butter with any other butter." We cow cockies have kept on milking away through these years of low prices, and now we are beginning to wonder if we would not have been wiser to have tried to find some other means of earning a livelihood. I only hope that now the price of wool has risen the sheep farmers will return to their sheep, while as a thank offering to the dairy industry that tided so many -of them over the lean years, they use as much as possible, in their households, of tho products of tho cow. F. Ci'iAXE.