BUTTER PROSPECTS.

Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 159, 1 November 1912, Page 4

BUTTER PROSPECTS.

WILL GERMANY BE A CUSTOMER? In the opinion of Mr J. Pederson, of the Dairy Commissioner's staff, who, returned recently from a trip to Europe, Germany, who is every year increasing her consumptive power, will in the near future be a good customer for New Zealand butter. There is,

of course, a duty of id per pound on butter entering Germany, but as a set-off to this the retail price is invariably higher than on the British markets: As there is.no duty on cream, Danish skimming stations on the border are increasing their shipments of cream to German butter factories. Germany is also absorbing more Siberian butter. Ten years ago Germany was exporting butter; to-day she is importing nearly four times as much as the total export of New Zealand. The tendency of Germany is, says Mr Pederson, also the tendency of several other Continental countries. France, Italy, and even Switzerland cannot now meet the demands of their own consumers. All this, he argues, points to the fact that butter values will be well maintained in the future, and that New Zealand dairy farmers can have every confidence in establishing the business of milkproducfion on a more permanent basis. As long as quality is maintained, New Zealand butter has a splendid future before it.