Supplying Britain with Dairy Produce.

Otago Witness, Issue 1505, 18 September 1880, Page 6

Supplying Britain with Dairy Produce.

Referring to the subject of shipping dairy produce to Europe by the freezing process, the Sydney Mad makes the following remarks •— Undoubtedly the prospects of dairy farmers are much brighter now than they were two years back. It is not probable that after a regular trade with Eagland has been opened butter will descend to such low levels ia the metropolitan markets as it has during the past twelve months. The demand in Britain may be described as never failing. No matter how good toe seasons iniEngland, the demand -for other than home produce exuts. One feature of the English batter trade of "the paat.year has Seen the general introduction, and in too many oases the sale under false pretences, of 'butterine,' a compound of animal fat with -perhaps 10 per cent, of real butter. For this article, the bulk of which .costs less than 3d, Is per 1b has been paid. , -The extent of the manufacture of 'oleo margarine ' in the United States has been shown by a suit now pending in Chicago concerning royalties under , a patent in the process of its j manufacture. Though not quoted in the market or kept by dealers as such, it is stated that it had a sale, last year amounting to 98,000,0001b. Whea such stuff as this meets with a ready market, good butter from the fine pastures of Australia should have at least a fair chance of being sold at rates profitable to the producer.