BUTTER AND CREAM GRADING
Sir, —In your issue of December 21 "Dissatisfied Supplier" draws attention to the loss suffered by dairy farmers in cream grading. This is not confined to the Waikato and applies equally to tho Bay of Plenty. Universal dairy instruction was stated to be a cure for all our troubles in grading. It has made no difference, because the trouble lies not in the sheds, but in the grasses and clovers. Butter is not graded in New Zealand to suit the tastes of consumers. Those who eat our butter fn Great Britain pay the same retail price for our first-grade as they do for finest grade and in many cases prefer the so-called lower grade butter. Our expert graders think otherwise and consider butter should be flavourless, and if the present ridiculous system of grading is continued some districts will go out of dairying. The irony of it all is that the dairy division is not capable of making any better butter than factory managers. Indeed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23545, 4 January 1940, Page 11
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