BUTTER MANUFACTURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 7 April 1934, Page 8

BUTTER MANUFACTURE

NEW METHODS ADOPTED MANY CLAIMS MADE DANISH PRODUCT EQUALLED (Pur Pross Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, lust night. Butter treated under a special process which, it is claimed, will allow it to compete on an equal basis both m quality ami ilavor, with Danish on tae Borne markets will be shipped from Christchuren this month. .It. is claimed also that the new process will make possible a saving oi. &>OO,UUI) annually io the dairy industry. Local tests of the process have been highly satisfactory and the inventors are positive that the buttei will stand the iinal test of shipment to England. it the shipment is a success, it will mean that butter can be exported to London unfrozen and will retain all its freshness id transit and have keeping qualities equal to frozen butter. Tnese, at any rate, aie the claims of the inventors. ■Some particulars of the new method were given to a reporter by Mr. L. Hansen, manager of the Kiwi Dairy Company’s factory in Christchurch, where the butter lias been made, iho cream is treated in the same way as Banish to ensure butter ol: good ilavor and the preservation in transit is secured partly by the use of C. 0.2. A uew essential is the use of dark wrappings to exclude the light. The taste of the new butter is very different from ordinary Mow Zealand factory made, ii is described as “tasty,” of very line texture, easy to spread and m ail respects like Danish butter.