The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1914. OUR PRODUCE IN AMERICA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 74, 18 March 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1914. OUR PRODUCE IN AMERICA.

While New Zealand butter is obtaining a fair hold on the Pacific Coast of North America, and to a lesser extent, our frozen meat, it is not gratifying to learn that'its reputation is being damaged by certain American dealers who add moisture to the butter and refuse to sell our meat for what it really is. The Chicago meat men do not like the importation of Australian or New Zealand meat, but San Francisco merchants are quite willing to receive it —and. sell it as home-grown. According to one report dealers flatly denied , they were handling Australian meat, and refused to bill it as such, although the size and quality of the imported article was patent to all purchasers. The “Australasian,” which is responsible for this statement, adds that “the prime appearance of the foreign commodity proved beyond a doubt that consumers were getting the Australian product, but the retailers maintained it was American meat only that they purveyed, and accordingly demanded the higher local prices.” The unexpected condemnation of some New Zealand butter recently on the ground that it contained definite traces of boric acid, makes one wonder whether the sample had not been tampered with at tiie other end. Rut in spite of tiade tricks, which are hard to combat, there is undoubtedly a future for New Zealand’s butter on the Pacific Coast, and if excellence in manufacture is maintained the Dominion’s product must hold its own.