BUTTER FOR ENGLAND.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15960, 26 October 1923, Page 8

BUTTER FOR ENGLAND.

EXPERT SUPERVISION SUGGESTED. From the nature of reports that have been made at intervals in England regarding the quality of Australian butter, it is suggested by a Melbourne journal that propaganda has been issued by competitors handling the produce of other countries to belittle the Australian product. Possibly the recommendation made 'to the Commonwealth dairy expert in London recently by representatives of .the dairy produce trade that a good officer should be appointed permanently to watch the interests of Australia is the outcome of the adverse reports, and for this reason, traders in Melbourne approved of the suggestion. The fact that the standard of Australian butter for export has been reduced to the basis of 80 per cent, butterfat where shipment is made to countries having a similar standard, is put forward by exporters here as a claim that those handling Danish and other butters may adopt measures that will tend to build up a prejudice against the Commonwealth product, although an 80 per cent, butterfat standard is almost general. Their arguments, no doubt, would be based upon alleged excessive moisture contents of the butter, for already there has been a tendency, in the absence of technical official supervision, to depreciate Australian butter in this respect. It is considered in the trade that not only would dt be informative, but that it would be of great advantage if expert supervision of Australian butter as it arrives in England were made this season. It would 'be necessary to to study the condition of butter arriving from other countries, so that the various points of texture fat, and moisture contents-could be compared. The question is raised by producers’ representatives whether the Commonwealth Dairy Expert (Mr M. A. O’Callagiian) who is now in the United States to attend an international dairy conference, should re-visit London and remain there for two or three months.