OUR BUTTER TRADE.
We do not remember to have heard any sound of jubilation at the price of the Kaikoura’s butter in London. “One hundred and fourteen shillings ” sounds very well. But is it the sound that the grandest pasture country in the world ought to he satisfied with ? Compare the London prices. In January last the quotations for Cork butter were 1325, 1265, 115 s. There were others, but we think it enough to quote three—every one of them superior to the price realised for New Zealand. Experts can doubtless give a thousand reasons why the price of our butter does not run up to the highest level of the price realised in London by the article from Cork. They will be just one thousand reasons too many. The object of the New Zealand butter-maker should be to send Home an article that will command the top price. His grass is good enough, and his steamers are good enough to enable him to realise that object. The sooner he makes his farm and dairy practice as good as his grain and his Bteamers the better for him and for his country.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 994, 20 March 1891, Page 20
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192OUR BUTTER TRADE. New Zealand Mail, Issue 994, 20 March 1891, Page 20
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