PACKING BUTTER.
To the Editor of five Taranaki Herald.
Sir, — In last Saturday's paper I saw a letter relating to Taranaki batter. I quite agree with the writer as far as he goes, but he does not go far enough. Good butter is made, and very good butter too, in Taranaki, but much of ;t is sent into town to the storekeepers. They sell retail what they can, and, after the remainder has been kept on their counters until rancid, it is potted into a keg and forwarded as "Taranaki Prime butter." What is the result? On reaching the market it is found " abominable." The farmer sending, direct, good firstclass butter, finds out that his is confounded with the inferior, and suffers both in price and reputation.
The writer of this letter took to the West Coast ten casks of his own butter, anJ, also, fifteen casks from storekeepers — potted as described — and the result wa3 that his butter realised the highest price in the market ; the storekeeper's was returned to the vessel unsaleable.
Dear Mr. Editor, how shall we get out of the difficulty ? — I am, &c, • A Bell Block Farmer.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 1005, 27 July 1870, Page 2
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192PACKING BUTTER. Taranaki Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 1005, 27 July 1870, Page 2
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