AMERICAN BUTTER IN EUROPE

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4467, 21 September 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

AMERICAN BUTTER IN EUROPE

The United States Department of Agriculture issued as * departmental tee the,testimony of Mr Frank XL -.v Hitchcock, chief of the eeotion of the foreign markets, before tha Induatrial - . Commission which has been lately aiU ‘ ting in that country. . Mr Hitchcock was examined upon "Foreign Markets for'American Agricultural Products," and in the oourse of bis evidence' gave some- intereating detail* about 'artificial . butter. ‘lt appears that ghe manufacture of oleomargarine, or . artificial bate ■, ter, is carried on most extensively in the Netherlands. The export# from tha v Netherlands exceed 100,000,000 pounds a year. Of these exports by far. the 1 , largest part goes to the. United 1 King. dom, while the remainder is'distributed quite - generally over Europe, and also to some extent through tropical com*, tries.” In answer to a question as to ' whether , there was a demand; for that , artificial butter in Europe, Mr Hitch* cock said that "artificial butter is used' >' now quite extensively in Europe.'' It is probably used' most extensively in England and Germany, but although the . manufacture of artificial Rutter ham in. . creased very largely, the consumption of real butter has also increased. -There is a more general use of butter through, out the-world. "The poorer' classes of tbs people arc beginning to use it much more than formerly, and for .that reason,the pro* duction of oleomargarine has not de. strayed the market for butter. The United'Kingdom, of course, is the mu > portant butter market of the world, and to show, you what has .been the increase - of the demand in that -market 1 will quote some statistic* I have on the nihe ject. In 1886, which we.. can give .-s. separate statistics of butter into ike United .Kingdom (prior to that' data substitutes were grouped into' butter, oleomargarine being included in tha but* sb* ter imports as recorded; we cannot divide them prior to 1896),. the imports cl ■ butter from all eonraea into the United Kingdom amounted to about 380,000,000 1 pounds. Thus in a period of 16 j*bi the demand of tha 'British market for fil imported butter more than doubled. Practically, 1 each ona of tho part 16 years kn ihwm * the imports of batter into tho United Kingdom.- The increaaiiy export* .from i'ithe various countries vhioh 1 turned as shoving rapid developeaeut are' chiefly, due. to thia'growing dmnand for the British market. - , ssa===sHSßHsaas-. .