DAIRY NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 15 May 1901, Page 2

DAIRY NOTES.

In the Lmdon Daily Mail of 22nd February is a further kttef from a c rrespondent as to the sale cf New Ze.i'and but'er as such in London, The riter sta'es tint all whohs»le houses in toe tr.ide describe their butter not oily as " No<v Zeahnd," " Aus'ralian," etc., the case may be, but a'so give the name cf the creamery where it is produced ; and he advocates that re- j taihrs should lollow the tame practice,! which they need not ht sit ate to do for m:«S brar.ds of Au'ipodem butter being " ful grass " and perfectly made ; was far and away finer in qualify than i tho pier, thin, and fUvourtess winter - i m.ide bu' t >r from the Continent. Coming from an cxpait in the wholesale trade, the publication of this testimony should he of great servica in popuUiisiajr Xew Zealand prcduie.

) I Tlie attention of British farmors is being called to tho loss thoy are subi tuiuing through the impoitatiou of buH-r which iu n-u tit years has boeri , sunt in tivmEuiopoan comtries and the 1 colonics at an inci easing rate of something like 10,000 tons p->r annum, iepres n'ing rougUy a trillion s'orliDg. L.i 1894 Groin Biitiin paid out i;U million--, in 1895 l-U, in 1096 lf).|,in{ 1899 17,! millions, and up to the eiid f Oc'olur list year over 1-jr! millions h d boea i-pent for imported buttsr. The noiml production of British butter is stated by oxports 'o be about 100,000 tons, valued at £10,000,000, in other words somewhere about, half tho quantity required. Tho D nas i-till hold the lend, having received in 1899 7k millions as against lnlf a million to Now Zealand. Russia is now a strong ccmipe'itor, having re-i-eivrd for 10 worths of 190') iiea>]v X8fi:!,000. A though attunti-ii has again and hgaiu beon drawn to the urgent rueosfity if ab;o!utfl tieaiuines* of dairy ufc> n-ils and puri y of water supply cases are cors'antly occtiring in which tho qu,.li'y of batter is heriounly a fleeted by the presence of bacteria. Mr. Gilruth, Government I b'icteriologis 1 -, reports a raso in which '2OOO germs per cubic centimetre wore i present, Keeping the organism ia <

butter in a fieezing chamber bAow 'A'l V. did r;oi interfere with its activity >\lieh thawod. It therefore appears t'lui butter which may be graded her ».i " firct-chss" m»y scon after is arrival in London Lo uneatable. A sample of butter from one creamoiy contained 6i,C00 orgnisns in what could ba imijoJ on th'i point i,( a fine ne'dle. The necessity of filti'atkti .seems obvious.

Municipal dtp.)l; for the sde of stetilisad m'llt with the object cf de creasing infant morality, me increa.J ing in E'igHnd. Tie milk is pus up ii fi'tdi-'g b-'ttl:s o' such size tl.a' afro-li ono is to be u ed ftr every me.l, tin week's tupply costing Is 2d. Its id vantages an', in onq ea-e, Feusittonal s w iiltol up int) an imitation of a quad adyt-rU-em-ut -'• Mothers h.v& iu h.n

tir need todi sp»ir of the lives of thf-ii little one* ; the magic poii n n has Lee foui:d." Cu-i usly mougli the end in view is not always atUinod as at Dunkin field whtru there wa* a fininci<l loss i>f X 149 for thd year. The iufants h.ivt paid the prmlty us before.